This study examined the communication effects of smoking cessation by using message framing (positive messages/negative messages) and audience situation (smoker/nonsmoker and high/low self-efficacy). The study used 207 valid homogeneous subjects and a between-subject experiment method was...

The concept of sustainable development has been present in political discourse for many years. Striving to achieve it has become a worldwide priority. Success in this field depends not only on the right government policies. It is also a matter of society engagement. There are different direct...

This interview study investigates how managers/associates of a failed distributed large-scale Research Infrastructures perceived their brand and the role mindsharing played in light of the organisation's ultimate failure. Specifically, the study looks at BioBanking and Molecular Resource...

The pharmaceutical market represents one of the most dynamic and controversial markets. Its specific features are rooted in the specific nature of its products and in the complex interests of the main constituents of market demand. Finding ways to improve marketing practice in the pharmaceutical...

This work was supported by CNCSIS – UEFISCSU, project number 224 PNII – IDEI code ID 793/2007). As the services have distinctive features which differentiate them of the manufactured products, the services marketing is different of the product marketing. Due to the fact that initially they...

Social marketing is a relatively young marketing approach in Hungary in spite of the fact that the country is now facing many social and environmental problems. Therefore, a comprehensive research on social marketing issues was required to identify the major social and environmental issues in...

Contrary to predictions based on cognitive accessibility, heightened gender identity salience resulted in lower perceived vulnerability and reduced donation behavior to identity-specific risks (e.g., breast cancer). No such effect was manifest with identity-neutral risks. Establishing the...

This paper aims at the delimitation of the concept of social marketing, with a special emphasis on priority products for the weakest sections of society in rural India. It also aims to show that there is a wide and unexplored scope for potential synergies between private and public institutions,...

In this paper, we present a procedure to apply the social labeling technique as a social marketing tool. With four studies, we tested its potential for the promotion of pro-environmental consumer behavior. The procedure first provokes an environmentally friendly act and, subsequently, invites...