Abstract
The marketing concept has important consequences for advertising research and for judging advertising effectiveness. An attempt is made in this article to show the possibility of several complementary conceptions of the advertising process. Since these complementary conceptions do not logically derive from each other, they do not necessarily result in mutually consistent conclusions. Consequently, a comprehensive model of the advertising process consistent with the marketing concept would appear to be both multidimensional and multivalued.
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