Brief Review of the Application of Market S egmentation Theory 王朗明 (西南财经大学国际商学院) 【Abstract]Based on examples of consumer market,capital market and minor market suffers the opposite.Major market consists of labors with labor market,this article reviews the applications of market segmenta-good education,and b5 gh productive technology.In contrast,minor don theory.By analysis and comparison,currant research limitations are market is made up of the poor—educated,manual worker,female and summarized and co ̄esponding furore research directions are pointed young people.Out of the litde interflow between these two markets, out. supply exceeds demand in major market,while demand exceeds supply 【Keywords]semgentation criteira,theory application,limitation and in minor market. prospection. In labor market,segmentation theory is applied for suggestions and .measures on how to weaken the barriers in labor market and decrease 1、Introduction the unemployment. Since Smith Wendell firstly put forward the concept of market 3、Research Limitation and Prospection segmentation,this theory has been the hot topic in marketing academia In above researches,although criteria in different markets vary a and industry for more than half a century.Based on buyer’s market, lot and market segmentation theory is applied for various purposes,it is the fierce competition among manufacturer accelerates the application still obvious that this theory has been widely applied in diverse markets. of amrket segmentation to meet diverse needs of consumers. However,there are some common liimtations that could be the future 2、Applications in Diferent Markets research directions. 2.1Auto Market 3.1Lack of systematic research framework and consrtuction of In SuV sub—market,Jia Wei and Zang Ye(2014)cross—analyze methodology the needs of users,features of products and competitive relationships, Current studies are mostly based on empirical study,but lacked of and segment this market by two steps.Firstly,choosing the length and construction of theory.Out of these lacks,the choice of segmentation wheelbase of SUV as the partition criteria.SUV market is divided into criteira makes no major progress.Without methodology and principle six parts,which are mini,small,compact,medium,middle-large,and of selecting segmentation tools,we can just solve segmentation in a sin一 large size.Secondly.adding the price dimension.SUV market is overall e market,but we can’t use one fixed systematic analysis framework divided into 13 market segment. to solve various problems in various segmentations. In this consumer market,market segmentation theory is applied Pursuit of construction of methodology and systematic framework ofr maximizing the slaes and profits for auto manufacturers. of market segmentation theory should be one future research direction. 2.2Stock Market 3.2Ignorance of the costs of market segmentation Li Shuangfei,Chen Shou and Wang Xuan(2008)perceive Seg— Almost all studies hardly mention the costs of market segmenta— mentation in this market can be understood as the pricing diference in tion.Leaving out COSTS,researchers exaggerate the necessities of market idverse markets for the saiTle assets,caused by barriers against capital segmentation.However,the higher segmentation degree is,the larger lfow and diversiites of transaction environment.Stock markets are eli— the costs are.This is also the reason why the ideal one—to—one mar— vided into 3 segments,which are complete segmentation for complete一 keting just exists in few markets. closed market,mild segmentation for uniflow market,and flee mar— How to balance segmentation and its COSt,which penetrates into ket. how to precisely segment a market to reach Pareto optimum,should In this capitla market,segmentation theory is applied for explain- also be a future research direction. ing its impact on domestic equiw premium. 参考文献: 2.3Labor Market 【1]寇东睿.房地产市场分割理论初探[J].经济观察,2011,(9): Gong Yuxia and Li Yanqi(201 1)refer to dual segmentation theory 42—43 in labor market.This theory divides the market into two.Major mar- [2]Xiao,Sheng.Comparison and Analysis of Market Segrnenta— ket shares high income,stable job,favorable working environment, tion of International Telecom Operators[J].World Telecommunica— abundant training opportunity and good promotion mechanism,while tions,2001,(1 0):44—47 94