The authors examine whether reputation concerns affect how manufacturers structure their sales organization. Using reputation theory, they examine whether reputation-related perceptions and beliefs affect whether a manufacturer that currently uses an outside selling organization {i.e., a rep)...

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While considerable research has examined information search behavior, little is known about factors that impact how individuals judge the value of the information they receive. We argue that the extent to which an information seeker judges information to be valuable depends on the breadth and...

Marketing managers and consumers who use the web as a source of information often use input from strangers to make decisions or gain knowledge. The authors propose that in such contexts the information provider's current and past behaviors, relative to those of other information providers,...

Individuals often describe objects in their world in terms of perceptual dimensions that span a variety of modalities; the visual (e.g., brightness: dark-bright), the auditory (e.g., loudness: quiet-loud), the gustatory (e.g., taste; sour-sweet), the tactile (e.g., hardness: soft vs. hard) and...

A prevailing view is that increased media weight for frequently purchased brands in mature product categories usually does not lead to increases in sales. However, the role of advertising executional cues and viewer responses on media weight induced sales has not yet been examined. The authors...

Although marketing managers and customers often seek information to make decisions or gain knowledge, we know little about what affects individual judgments of the value of received information. We argue that, in settings where information comes from multiple information providers with whom the...