The key objective of this multi-method, exploratory study was to investigate advertising and marketing practices in online social media (OSM) from the perspective of consumer behaviour and consumer protection. It aimed to identify and assess commercial practices in the context of OSM that could...

The study examines the incidence of vulnerability across the EU28 and Iceland and Norway, and the factors explaining any observed vulnerability. The study uses a range of information sources (literature review, stakeholder interviews, consumer survey and consumer experiments in five countries)...

Seth Godin geht in seinem neuesten Buch wieder auf die Möglichkeiten der Mundwerbung im Internet ein. Seine These lautet, dass allein aus Gründen der Kosteneffizienz zukünftig immer weniger Massenbotschaften an potenzielle Kunden gesendet werden. Vielmehr bestehe die Aufgabe des Marketing...

This paper is concerned with the degree of efficiency in brand advertising in the German car industry that can be observed and how such inefficiency can be explained. Brand advertising budgets from 35 car manufacturers in the German market from 1998-2001 form the basis for estimating brand...

This paper compares three different models of efficiency measurement on the basis of multiple inputs and outputs. Various data envelopment models are compared with principle component analysis and with a naïve model that derives a single efficiency score for every unit by averaging all possible...

This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a...