Recently, Digital Financial Advice Solutions (i.e., “Robo Advice” or “Robo Advisory”) are emerging rapidly within the financial services sectors, which can be outlined by the respective Assets und Managements' CAGR of 255.9% from 2016 to 2018 in Germany (Kaya, 2019). However, these...

Purpose – To provide guidance for the formalised analysis of qualitative data and observations, to raise awareness about systematic analysis and illustrate promising avenues for the application of qualitative methodologies in international marketing research.Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine organizational cross-culture differences in public-private research-oriented relationships. More precisely, it focuses on the analysis university-industry collaborations partnering for research agreements with the aim of fostering the...

Several organizations have developed ongoing crowdsourcing communities that repeatedly collect ideas for new products and services from a large, dispersed “crowd” of non-experts (consumers) over time. Despite its promises, little is known about the nature of an individual’s ideation...

Digital distribution channels raise many new challenges for managers in the media industries. This is particularly true for movie studios where high-value content can be stolen and released through illegitimate digital channels, even prior to the release of the movie in legal channels. In...

The authors present findings from an analysis of articles related to product design published within eight leading journals important to marketing thought. Based on this analysis, which covers the fourteen year period from 1995-2008, the authors propose a conceptual model of product design and...

In spite of industry concerns, prior work has shown that Internet used book markets do not significantly cannibalize new book sales. In this research note we analyze similar data from markets for CDs and DVDs, goods that because of their digital characteristics may be more susceptible to...

The creative industries have frequently expressed concern that they can't compete with freely available copies of their content. Competing with free is particularly concerning for movie stu-dios, whose content may be more prone to single-use consumption than other industries such as music. This...

Inter-connect standards increase choices; e.g., in cardiac pacemakers, the IS-1 standard enables the “pulse generator” from six manufacturers to be combined with the “lead set” from the other five to add up to thirty additional mixed-brand pacemakers. However, observed assortment...

This research investigates the impact of consumer-owned mobile device use on decision-making. We build on the limited prior research on mobile technology in consumer research by considering the differing ways consumers utilize mobile devices at the point of decision. In particular, we...