"Compomers" are recently introduced products marketed as a new class of dental materials. These materials are said to provide the combined benefits of composites (the "comp" in their name) and glass ionomers ("omer"). Based on a critical review of the literature, the author argues that "compomers" do not represent a new class of dental materials but are merely a marketing name given to a dental...

With the development of e-commerce websites, more and more firms use websites to advertise their products and brands and statues. How to evaluate marketing performance of firms on web-based e-commerce becomes more important problem. This paper analyses influencing factors of marketing performance under e-commerce websites. And it suggests an evaluation model based on combination of fuzzy logic ...

This commentary complements the Hunt (2015) essay and identifies the challenges that the R-A theory poses with its emphasis on superior financial performance as a firm’s primary and superordinate objective. It points to the need for new marketing strategy theory with a broader perspective of including other stakeholders beyond investors while designing firm objectives. In addition, the commenta...

This paper discusses a popular teaching technique applied in Sales Courses that marketing educators can utilize to engage today’s millennial students through the use of streaming video technology. The exercise, a role-play simulation, can help today’s marketing students gain valuable skills needed to improve their communication ability by completing a two-stage role-play. Utilizing quasi-experi...

Marketing has long had a place in the planning and management of public sector recreation. In particular, the use of market segmentation has allowed leisure providers to better understand their clients’ needs and to tailor their services to the diversity of those needs. However, the use of marketing approaches is not without controversy and is sometimes perceived to be at odds with the public s...

Consumer behaviour discipline has made traditionally use of models to understand consumers. Thus, following the scientific method, marketing academics usually pose theoretical models which are subsequently tested by means of several statistical methods. When such models are complex –i.e. several dependent and independent constructs with multiple relations among them– the method usually used for...

Consumer behaviour discipline has made traditionally use of models to understand consumers. Thus, following the scientific method, marketing academics usually pose theoretical models which are subsequently tested by means of several statistical methods. When such models are complex –i.e. several dependent and independent constructs with multiple relations among them– the method usually used for...

One of the substantial challenges in marketing efforts is determining optimal markets, specifically in market segmentation. The problem is more controversial in electronic commerce and electronic marketing. Consumer behaviour is influenced by different factors and thus varies in different time periods. These dynamic impacts lead to the uncertain behaviour of consumers and therefore harden the t...

The developments in game industry and service design have led to an increased use of so-called game mechanics to drive customer retention and engagement outside the realm of, what can traditionally be seen as, games. This act of enhancing services with game-like features has largely been coined as „gamification‟. The phenomenon has been thus far discussed atomically, without ties to existing li...