This book examines how marketing affects societal welfare.The editors have assembled key reviews, analyses, and perspectives on a broad range of research topics including deceptive advertising, warning labels, trademark infringement, antitrust enforcement, environmental labels, privacy...

Commitment is a core concept in the study of buyer-supplier relationships. Much of extant research on commitment in buyer-supplier relationships utilizes a global, unidimensional definition of commitment. In contrast, research on employees’ organizational commitment utilizes a three-facet...

<title>Abstract</title> The scaling of social entrepreneurial impact is an important issue in the field of social entrepreneurship. While researchers have focused relatively little theoretical and empirical attention on scaling, a recently proposed set of drivers of scaling -- incorporated into what has been...

Our research investigates the marketing of preventive and curative "remedies" (products and services that offer ways of mitigating risk by decreasing either its likelihood or severity). Examples include debt consolidation loans and smoking cessation aids. Like risk-avoidance messages,...

Learning about whether target markets face search, experience, or credence situations when assessing a company′s product or service can help in formulating more effective marketing strategies. Depending on the information situation of the targets, a company may want to vary the information...