This research investigates how the nature of a product and the magnitude of a donation to charity interact to determine the effectiveness that a charity incentive will have in promoting a product. The results suggest that sensitivity to magnitude in the case of charity incentives (i.e., the size...

This study spotlighted on the financial services industry specifically in the creation of brand trust across online channel, which constructs a significant contribution to the under-researched area of online branding. Content analysis was performed on the web sites of top ten bank retailers in...

Past research has focused mainly on discovering the relationship between brand image, brand attitude, and purchasing behavior. Such studies have found that consumers will rely on brand preference as the major purchasing reference when they have positive brand attitudes toward products. Because...

This paper investigates situations where a sizable sub-set of consumers prefer an inferior (dominated) offer made by an established brand to a superior (dominating) offer made by a less-established brand. Established brands are those for which consumers hold more confident beliefs concerning...

This article explores the dilemmas and challenges that hybrid organizations face when developing marketing strategies. Hybrid organizations are organizations that combine tasks and characteristics of governmental organizations, private (for profit) organizations, and non-profit organizations. In...

The internet offers market researchers a broad variety of possibilities to gather information and insights. Online surveys and online observations are to commonly used research methods. In this article, both methods are being compared and their possible value proposition in terms of brand...

In times when competition between countries in the world is stronger, in order to attract as many tourists as possible, and strengthening their brand as a tourist destination, Republic of Macedonia started to build and strengthen its tourism brand. Due to the enormous competition, traditional...

The increasing overload of information that bothers people is affecting businesses on online job boards as well. Although there is no doubt about the benefits of those platforms, companies are threatened to get lost in the sheer mass of similar advertisements. Considering the background of the...

The rise of social media is causing challenges for brand managers of premium manufacturers in the fast moving consumer goods industry. Social Media platforms as innovative and open communication channels have to be integrated in the established media mix while preventing the damage of the...