Practitioners and scholars have questioned marketing communication's credibility because it has not been linked to firm shareholder value. Using secondary longitudinal data, the authors show that the impact of marketing communication productivity (MCP) on shareholder value is positive and...

Advertising accountabiilty demands that advertising efficiency be measured, maximized, and benchmarked. In this paper we demonstrate the application of Data Envelopment Analysis to benchmark advertising efficiency. Data Envelopment Analysis can be used to estimate the relative efficiency of...