[Introduction:] The route to customers is becoming increasingly digital, for any business. There is hardly any business that is not focussing on reaching customers online. The Covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated this trend. In many markets, digital platforms have become essential tools for...

In this article, we analyze the influence of sociodemographic factors and consumer attitudes toward direct marketing products and sources (outlets) on the frequency of buying food from farmers’ markets and farm shops. By conducting an intercept survey with pedestrians in 2011 and 2012, we...

Eine Vielzahl von Herausforderung stellt die kommerzielle Verbreitung des Internets und die damit verbundene bidirektionale Kommunikation nicht nur zwischen Konsumenten und Unternehmen, sondern ebenso unter Konsumenten, für Unternehmen dar. Die Unternehmen stehen vor der Notwendigkeit, die...

Purpose: Contactless Mobile Payment (CMP) is a technological innovation that shapes the future of service-related industries. This study develops a critical understanding of CMP in the context of consumer behaviour and explores its use in the Vietnamese restaurant industry. Methods: An online...

Die Schaffung der perfekten Kundenerlebnisse über alle Phasen des Kundenlebenszyklus steht schon seit vielen Jahren ganz oben auf der Marketing-Agenda diverser Unternehmen. Allerdings wird es immer schwerer exakt zu verstehen, was Kunden im alltäglichen Kontakt mit dem Unternehmen erleben und...

Der Online-Handel in Deutschland erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit wie die jährlichen Steigerungsraten der Umsatzerlöse zeigen. Das große Manko des E-Commerce - die Produkte können vor der Kaufhandlung nicht betrachtet oder anprobiert werden - ist eine der entscheidenden Herausforderungen...

Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...

Although reciprocity is fundamental to all social orders, management research offers few reviews of the concept's theoretical origins and current applications. To help bridge this gap, we elucidate the dominant understandings of reciprocity, ask which areas of research emerge from them, and...

A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by...

We compile a ranking of the research output of all Nobel Laureates in economics using the Handelsblatt methodology and compare the outcome to the Handelsblatt ranking of economists in the Germanspeaking area. Our analysis focuses on whether the overall rating scores of the Nobel Laureates are...