Over half of all shopping journeys start with the mobile channel. In particular, the presence of a branded mobile app significantly influences shopping across channels. However, a majority of app users decrease app usage or even abandon an app, in part, due to app service failure(s). Do app...

Do mobile apps influence shopper purchases and product returns? We model the effects of app adoption in the context of a large omnichannel retailer with 32 million shoppers. We leverage the launch of a mobile app by the retailer and use a difference-in-differences approach to identify and...

Both developed and developing economies worldwide are becoming increasingly services-driven. By some estimates, the value of business-to-business (B2B) commerce dwarfs that of business-to-consumer (B2C). In particular, firms competing in business markets are constantly seeking to introduce...

Product-harm crises can adversely affect brand equity and advertising effectiveness. We develop state space models to capture brand and sub-brand equity the dynamics related to product recalls and spending on different levels and types of advertising, integrate them with a random coefficient...

From 2003 to 2012, the ISMS Practice Prize/Award competition has documented 25 impactful projects, with associated papers appearing in the Marketing Science. This article reviews these papers and projects, examines their influence on the relevant organizations, and provides a perspective on the...