Monetary gifts in the form of a gift card can lead one to spend and conceive of these funds differently than if the gift is given as cash. Across four experiments, the presentation of a gift card rather than cash led to both intended and actual spending beyond the amount of the original gift,...

Ambush marketing is a marketing strategy that intersects with the law of unfair competition and one that provokes debate and competing arguments. The arguments of event organisers and sponsors have proved to be influential and, in response to pressure from those parties, legislatures in a number...

In today's highly competitive market, companies use celebrities in advertisements. Due to the development in the field of mass communications, as one of the oldest branding tools, celebrity endorsement will keep its effect. Turkish Airlines has confirmed with its own example that the celebrity...

The now-popular “cash diet” hails that paying in cash is more painful psychologically than via dematerialized money (e.g., credit cards), which in turn helps citizens save more. Paradoxically, we show cash can sometimes backfire (compared to dematerialized money) and cause consumers to save...

We examine how and why consumers engage in retributional acts directed towards brands that are perceived as harmful. Consumers are shown to lie, cheat, and steal as they attribute lower moral worth to harmful brands and this effect is shown to persist in the absence of any attributable brand...

The Internet is growing at a rate of almost 50-100% per year in India. From being a medium for exchange of information and communication between the scientific research workers, it has opened a vast vista of entertainment and information (edutainment) for millions of people on the Internet...

Women Consumers are playing an important role in online shopping. The increasing use of internet by the women consumers in India provides an emerging prospect for online retailers. If online retailers know the factors affecting women consumers' buying behavior, then they can further develop...

We propose a structural model of correlated learning with indirect inference to explain late-mover advantages. Our model focuses on a class of products with the following two features: (i) products which build on a common fundamental technology (e.g., computer processor, car, smartphone, etc.);...

Business ought to understand their customers' needs and wants, if they want to remain successful in a competitive market place. Therefore, this chapter introduces its readers to market research as tourism businesses continuously require information on their customers. In this light, a well...

In the current market environment, the actual dynamics of the application of internal corporate factors is differentiated. The company thus tries to influence customers' shopping behavior as effectively as possible. Therefore, it is important for the company to be able to adapt to these changes...