Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace (on which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Tacit knowledge exchange Salespeople Marketing success Marketing process innovation Marketing efficiency Marketing effectiveness Social networks Successful organizations adapt their marketing strategies to marketplace changes. Boundary spanners, such as salespeople, because they are able to embed themselves in social networks outside the organization, play a key ...

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In this editorial accompanying the special section on Marketing Science in Emerging Markets (MSEM), we describe how research on emerging markets can contribute to richer theoretical and substantive understanding of markets and marketing. Such research can also aid in providing managerial guidance on how to operate in emerging markets. We conclude with a description of the selection and review p...

Companies have been increasingly seeking new mechanisms for making their electronic marketing campaigns to become viral, thus obtaining a cascading recommendation effect similar to word-of-mouth. We analysed a dataset of a magazine publisher that uses email as the main marketing strategy and found out that networks emerging from those campaigns form a very sparse graph. We show that online soci...

Due to rapid progress of ICT, our society is also changing rapidly. A huge amount of information is stored in the Internet servers and shared by all people. It is updated continuously. In such age, we are supposed to keep learning and libraries are supposed to support those people. In order to carry out such missions, libraries are trying to change themselves in order to provide better and up t...

this study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in abia state, nigeria. specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

In today’s competitive business environment, more and more organizations move or extent their business online. Thus, there is an increasing need for organizations to build concrete online marketing strategies in order to engage with their customers. One basic step towards achieving the objectives related to online marketing is the segmentation of online customers, based on the customer data gat...

* This project was supported by grants from the Marketing Science Institute (#4-882), the Goizueta Business School, and the Alden G. Clayton Dissertation Competition. Data support was provided by the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Pennsylvania State University. We are grateful to Ulf Bockenholt, Rajdeep Grewal, Gary Lilien, Steve Stern, Michael Martin, the Kellogg Marketing Ca...