Nonleptonic decays of B mesons into two mesons or meson resonances are studied on the basis of two versions of simple pole dominance models involving scalar, vector, pseudoscalar and axial vector poles. The results are compared with those obtained from the usual factorization model and are used to obtain information on strong coupling constants between the B meson and one light or one charmed meson, respectively. These coupling constants are compared to results from various QCD sum rule calculations.