Academicians have traditionally acknowledged that industrial and consumer marketing are different. A fundamental question raised in this paper is whether the importance of these differences is sufficient to justify this commonly accepted dichotomy. Moreover, the similarities between industrial and consumer marketing are viewed as more useful in developing marketing knowledge.
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