User generated branding (UGB) as a field of study -- Theoretical basis for the development of a UGB reference framework -- Specification of UGB -- Development of the explanatory UGB model -- Empiric model validation and hypothesis testing -- Summary, critical consideration and outlook

This timely edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on social commerce, a phenomenon that has gained increasing interest over the last 8 years. Investigating how social media can be used to generate value for brands beyond customer relationship purposes, the skilled authors...

This book provides a synthesis of research perspectives on customer engagement through a collection of chapters from thought leaders. It identifies cutting-edge metrics for capturing and measuring customer engagement and highlights best practices in implementing customer engagement marketing...

Customer Insights, Hypothesen und Markt-Wirkungsmodelle -- Customer Insights, Hypothesen und Markt-Wirkungsmodelle -- Die Erforschung von Customer Insights -- Der Mehrwert tiefenpsychologischer Insights am Beispiel von Smartphones und Kosmetikmarken -- Customer Insights aus der Perspektive einer...

Surviving the Customer -- Zero-Sum Games in Traditional Marketing -- The Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Emergence of Cooperation -- Consumer Revolt and the Rising Cost of Defection -- Sustaining Marketer-Consumer Cooperation through Coordination Games -- Crowdsourcing and Schelling’s Theory of...

Ines Nee makes important key contributions to service recovery research by analyzing the effect of management response content towards negative online customer reviews on the observer’s purchase intention. This study is the first to provide a conceptual basis of observers’ behavioral...

Chancen von Kundenkommunikation für das Marketing -- Social Media als Inkubator für Word-of-Mouth -- Modell der Informationsverteilung in sozialen Medien -- Partizipationsformen im Kommunikationsprozess.

The emergence of social media as one of the driving forces of consumers’ online experiences today also challenges our current understanding on marketing and brand management. The effects of brands’ social media involvement are to this day uncertain. Severin Dennhardt shows that social media...

Die Mundwerbung stellt einen maßgeblichen Treiber des Diffusionserfolges von Produkten dar. Michael Möller untersucht persönlichkeitsspezifisch die Abgabe von Online-Kundenartikulationen und damit den Zusammenhang zwischen Persönlichkeitsstruktur und dessen Einfluss auf die...