This paper examines the ‘executional greenwashing’ effect, i.e. the use of nature-evoking elements in advertisements to artificially enhance a brand’s ecological image. Theoretical and regulatory implications are discussed.

This research deals with the impact of tobacco warnings modification on smokers. A state of the art on the subject is first presented, then research hypothesis are proposed. Second, eight focus groups are implemented on 48 French smokers. Results showed that French past warnings should had been...

Often reduced to a price reduction, sales promotion is very often presented as a commercial technique with damaging effect on brand value. We propose a broader view of this question and first explain why sales promotion can increase price elasticity and so reduce profitbility associated with...

Promoting direct competing brands in the same page of a retailer store flyer has become a current managerial practice. This study questions the relevance of this practice by examining its negative effect on brand and promotion recall. It postulates the existence of an interference effect,...

Since the end of the apartheid regime, the number of advertisements casting actors from different racial backgrounds simultaneously has significantly increased. Comments about this development are multi-faceted. While some observers praise this technique as the ideal social mirror of the...

This case explores the aggregate influence of corporate marketing practices on public health and examines the increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity epidemic. Specifically, it engages a discussion about a...

Viral campaigns widely use online promotional games. Although antecedents of the extrinsic value of participation are discussed in the literature, few studies have focused on the intrinsic value of playing a promotional game. This study examines two dimensions of online game control: the amount...

Understanding how consumers discover, adopt and develop relationships with brands is of increasing interest in consumer research. A relationship being a series of interactions, key interactions between consumers and brands, especially the first one, because they can generate biases, cast their...