The role of customer value has been largely recognized over time by the firms as an instrument towards stimulating market share and profit optimization. The customer values for a new product of firm in competitive markets are shaped more by habits, reinforcement effects, and situational...

Studies have found either females being more ethical than males or no significant differences. Ethical evaluations and judgments lead to intentions, and behavior. Furthermore, marketing activities create positive, e.g., ethical, or negative, e.g., unethical, perceptions of firms' market...

We provide an explanation for product versioning that is not driven by differential costs or consumer preference heterogeneity, and investigate its implications. Consumers care whether a product they own is better than that owned by others, and whether others own a better product than them....

Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions, four U.S. states and other countries, have had to adopt extensive consumer education procedures that serve largely to confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting....

The design of default provisions in consumer contracts involves an aspect that does not normally arise in other contexts. Unlike commercial parties, consumers have only limited information about the content of the default rule and how it fits with their preference. Inefficient default rules may...

Especially in markets with frequent price promotions, where consumers constantly have to form preferences over changing offers, product choice may depend on a relative assessment of prices and qualities. We show how such “relative thinking” profoundly influences firms’ pricing and...

Das Ziel der Studie lag darin, den in den Firmen des WestmecklenburgischenKunststoffverbandes anzutreffenden aktuellen Zustands des Marketings zuerfragen und zu erfassen. Dieser Ausgangszustand wurde mit dem Begriff des Marketingniveausbezeichnet. Die Kenntnis des Marketingniveaus in den Firmen...

Die Autoren analysieren, ob ein Social Media Newsroom eine Alternative zur herkömmlichen Pressemitteilungen via Email in der Luxusbranche ist. Ausgehend vom Intereffikationsmodell wird aufgezeigt, dass Journalismus und PR in einer Wechselbeziehung der gegenseitigen Einflussnahme stehen. Via...

Die ifo Preiserwartungen sind ein zuverlässiger Frühindikator zur Prognose der sektorspezifischen Preisentwicklung. Zudem ist der ifo Indikator in der Lage, die Kernrate der deutschen Inflation treffsicherer vorherzusagen als ein einfaches Referenzmodell. Nach den jüngsten...