These summaries provide key information from marketing management questions and answers posted online by various students:
1. Marketing information systems consist of people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and distribute timely information to marketing decision-makers.
2. Common research approaches used in marketing include observation, surveys, and experiments, but not data gathering. Personal interviews involve face-to-face interaction between interviewers and respondents.
3. Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory proposes that people are motivated to satisfy hierarchical needs starting with physiological needs and progressing to more advanced needs like esteem and self-actualization.