Die Implementierung einer gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Unternehmen, auch Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) genannt, entwickelt sich zunehmend zu einem bedeutenden Managementkonzept der strategischen Unternehmensführung in der Praxis. Von dieser Entwicklung ist insbesondere das...

Market share models for weekly store-level data are useful to understand competitive structures by delivering own and cross price elasticities. These models can however not be used to examine which brands lose share to which brands during a specificperiod of time. It is for this purpose that we...

Vor dem Hintergrund tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse ergeben sich zunehmend Herausforderungen für die Unternehmens- und Markenführung. Dabei bestimmen zwei grundlegende Werte die Diskussion und eröffnen ein Spannungsfeld: Individualisierung -...

Integrated choice and latent variable (ICLV) models represent a promising new class of models which merge classic choice models with the structural equation approach (SEM) for latent variables. Despite their conceptual appeal, applications of ICLV models in marketing remain rare. We extend...

Traditional choice models assume that observable behavior results from an unspecified evaluation process of the observed individual. When it comes to the revelation of this process mere choice models rapidly meet their boundaries, as psychological factors (e.g., consumers' perception or...

In a brief literature review, we discuss how our insight into the grounds of existence of futures markets has changed from the initial insurance perspective, to the arbitrage perspective, to the portfolio perspective, and to the current institutional perspective. We discuss futures market...

This inquiry contributes to the literature on the development of 'nonprofit marketing thought' by describing how the field's early period established a legacy effect on nonprofit marketing scholarship to the present day. This qualitative work uses a wide variety of sources from a protracted...

We analyze the marketing strategies of vertically differentiated firms when consumers observe their performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firms simultaneously decide the price, advertising intensity and the investment in CSR. While advertising increases consumers' perception...