In a viral marketing campaign an organization develops a marketing message, and stimulates customers to forward this message to their contacts. Despite its increasing popularity, there are no models yet that help marketers to predict how many customers a viral marketing campaign will reach, and...

The use of the Internet as a shopping channel is becoming very important in the world of business. Marketers are incorporating the online channel to their set of traditional offline channels to reach new customers and improve the services offered to current ones. Consumers are discovering the...

In this study I examine how sales channel selection influences the type of customers attracted to a service and how the different types of customers are associated with indirect costs that are not captured by traditional accounting systems. The choice of a sales channel to target customers is a...

When customers deliberately change the channel through which they do business with a firm, is that an indication of behavior change, and thus, future revenue? This research investigates the causal effects of customer channel migration to direct, company-managed or indirect, independent...

This study investigates the impact of eliminating a search channel on purchase incidence, order size, channel choice and, ultimately, sales and profits. We analyze customer panel data from a large retailer over a five-year period. The retailer conducted a randomized field test in which the firm...

This research examines how a firm's relationship commitment influences its extra-role behavior after an intentional destructive act by a partner. The results of two studies – one a national survey of dealers for a consumer durable product and the other a set of three experiments involving...

Customer Management Softwares have become a critical strategy in business, since it became prominent that they improve a company's probability to achieve superior business results. Yet, for a company to be able to deliver superior portfolio management solutions, Technology, Data Analysis and...

In today's online environment, consumers and sellers interact through multiple channels such as email, search engines, banner ads, affiliate websites and comparison-shopping websites. In this paper, we investigate whether knowing what channels a consumer used on their path until a point of time...

We study a two-period supply chain in which a manufacturer produces a product, learns to reduce cost, and sells it through a retailer with a price-dependent demand. The manufacturer's second-period production cost declines linearly in the first-period production with a random learning rate. The...

This study investigates the strategic effect of return policies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which a manufacturer can sell products directly to end customers and indirectly via an independent retailer. The manufacturer decides whether to implement a return policy in either the direct or...