The objective of the research was to map the most important global megatrends affecting the business and marketing environment and to analyze and understand how the changed environment will affect the practice and performance of marketing communication in the next decade. For identifying the...

mportance of sustainable consumption. Consumers associate sustainable products with ecological and regional production including a high credibility. In order to take advantage of this trend manufacturers of sustainable foods must communicate the sustainability of their products via packaging and...

Marketing in public cultural institutions can be defined as a tool for achieving an organizational and creative concept that seeks to build relationships with the audience. This paper will define how public cultural institutions manage their marketing departments, with particular emphasis on the...

Typically, toy manufacturers use the color pink for girls' toys and the color blue for boys. They also design gender-related theme worlds for girls and boys based on gender-based stereotypes, justified by different playing preferences of the two sexes. Socially-oriented toys such as dolls are...

Customer relationship management has a great role in customers' loyalty and satisfaction. However, it is questionable if companies are facing their customers with adequate care. Research that analyzes income and its impact to customers' loyalty, especially in post-transition countries is scare....

The business environment that is characterized by the dynamics of change has had a significant impact in the development of scientific thinking in the field of management from the beginning of the nineteenth century until today. In the 1950s, modern theories and management concepts were...

The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...

Ad-avoidance technologies such as ad-blocking devices in browsers have become mainstream tools in recent years and escaped their role as niche applications that are only for the technically savvy. While technical impacts of those tools are well researched, their effects on actual consumer...

Two firms produce a product with a horizontal and a vertical characteristic that we call quality. The difference in the quality levels determines how the firms share the market. Consumers do not observe quality before purchase. Under non-comparative advertising a firm signals its own quality,...

This paper develops a fairly general model of platform competition in media markets allowing viewers to use multiple platforms. This leads to a new form of competition between platforms, in which they do not steal viewers from each other, but affect the viewer composition and thereby the...