Providing a guerilla marketing model based on the meta-synthesis and fuzzy Delphi methods

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Management, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran

2 Department of Statistics, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

Given that marketing and its new methods play essential roles in survival in the current competitive market, the development of new marketing methods is considered the key to the survival of small businesses, and it has thus created guerilla marketing. Therefore, the present research aimed to synthesize extensive literature on guerrilla marketing. The research had an exploratory sequential mixed-methods type in terms of the nature of data analysis methods: In the first step, it was based on the meta-synthesis qualitative approach; in the second step, it determined the indices of the guerilla marketing model and screened them using the binomial t-test, and the fuzzy Delphi method (quantitative method); and in the third step, it introduced the indices agreed upon by the experts and offered a model. The statistical population consisted of studies from 2000 and 2021. In this regard, 250 studies on the target subject were evaluated, and finally, 26 studies were selected purposefully. Using the content analysis and synthesis of the relevant literature, 7 concepts and 5 key categories were selected from a total of 68 codes during the search process and systematic synthesis and were then analyzed and their validity was confirmed using Kaufman's kappa test. After the survey of experts, 61 codes were approved employing binomial test and fuzzy Delphi method. The results indicated that the most important key categories identified included technological tools, human tools, cultural tools, relational tools, and advertising weapons. The present research provided a deep understanding of the existing literature on guerrilla marketing.

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Volume 16, Issue 5
May 2025
Pages 87-105
  • Receive Date: 15 October 2022
  • Revise Date: 21 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 02 December 2022