The role of upstream and downstream social marketing in electricity consumption management

Abstract

The current research is an attempt to answer two questions: first, it considers the potential of social marketing in amending the behaviour of consumer and reforming of electricity consumption pattern through three factors of training and informing, encouraging and persuading and cost adjusting. While social marketing aims to affect its target group, it can also influence its executors, provided that a strategic and targeted programme is followed. Therefore, the second part of research reviews the impact of social marketing on organisational transformation of Isfahan regional electricity company as the executor of social marketing programmes, and thus, its effect on the goals, culture and business processes of company. The findings reveal that social marketing has a significant impact on reforming electricity consumption pattern of domestic consumers in Isfahan. The significant impact of social marketing on organisational transformation of an electricity company is also approved. Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.