This research reviews the current state of affairs in the fast-growing area of direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests. The authors identify the unique nature of genetic tests and the ensuing consumer vulnerability. They also present a comprehensive examination of the current legal environment and an empirical analysis of genetic testing companies’ online marketing practices. On the basis...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer response predictive model Knowledge-based marketing RFM Neural networks Decision tree models Logistic regression Decision support techniques and models for marketing decisions are critical to retail success. Among different marketing domains, customer segmentation or profiling is recognized as an important area in research and industry practice. Various ...

This paper aims to locate the key schools of thought in viral marketing (VM) literature, recognise the various sub-sets within viral marketing overall area of research and to identify the different gaps in viral marketing research literature offering a summation of the existing work done so far. The paper tries to build on the existing body of literature in the field of viral marketing, its rel...

main research interests are: management of technological innovation, academic-industry relationships and technological entrepreneurship.editor of several books and author of several scientific papers in the area of energy and environment and related fields, with emphasis on fluid mechanics and combustion. He this context, he has led the Organizing Committee of a series of International Conferen...

During the last decade branding has developed to be one of the main focus areas in consumer marketing. In the industrial marketing area there has only been limited attention to this phenomenon. In this paper we focus on how co-branding can be used on industrial markets to increase value. Through an empirical study of professional purchasers’ attitudes towards co-branding activities between two ...

W e are adopting two changes in the review process at Marketing Science. The first change is the movement to a completely electronic review process. The second change is a different implementation of the double-blind review process that involves more anonymity for authors and slightly less anonymity for area editors (AEs). We hope that both changes will further enhance the attractiveness in pub...

The advancement of wireless communication and mobile telecommunication has made mobile commerce possible. In the retail business under the evolving market, the users would like to utilize the appropriate services based on their preference and situation continuously. The service providers need to grasp the current requirements of the majority of the users in the local service area in order to pr...

Recent research has shown that 82% of adolescent pregnancies are unintended. Social marketing has potential to reduce unintended adolescent pregnancy but its effectiveness in this area has not been thoroughly evaluated. This article reviews the literature on social marketing and assesses its potential to reduce unintended adolescent pregnancy. We identified five communication principles as rele...