When emerging technologies such as Search Engine Marketing (SEM) face tasks that require human level intelligence, it is inevitable to use the knowledge repositories to endow the machine with the breadth of knowledge available to humans. Keyword suggestion for search engine advertising is an important problem for sponsored search and SEM that requires a goldmine repository of knowledge. A recen...

Given the explosive growth of customer and transactional information, data mining can potentially discover new knowledge to improve managerial decision making in marketing. This study proposes an innovative approach to data mining using Bayesian Networks and evolutionary programming and applies the methods to direct marketing data. The results suggest that this approach to knowledge discovery c...

Burgess and Steenkamp (2006) have pointed out that marketing knowledge derives almost exclusively from research conducted in high income, industrialized countries. However, the generalizability of marketing knowledge should also be tested in emerging markets. We demonstrate that returns on customer orientation and organizational innovativeness play out differently in New versus Old Europe. Cont...

The retail geography literature has long recognised the importance of spatial and catchment analysis to inform decision-making relating to store development. However, less attention has been directed to store development “in practice” and, more specifically, how location research and geographical knowledge is leveraged across the wider retail business – in particular informing the marketing fun...

Anthropology and global health have long been a focus of research for both biological and medical anthropologists. Research has looked at physiological adaptations to high altitudes, community responses to water-borne diseases, the integration of traditional and biomedical approaches to health, global responses to HIV/AIDS, and more recently, to the application of cultural approaches to the con...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the economic impact of social marketing anti-stigma campaigns in relation to people with mental illness is limited. AIMS To describe the economic impact of the Time to Change (TTC) anti-stigma social marketing campaign, including the potential effects on the wider economy. METHOD Data collected for the evaluation of TTC were combined with the social marketing campaign...

The focus of this study is on the challenges faced by managers in effectively dealing with the new management logic of increasing returns as the information and knowledge intensity of their transformation processes rises. Dealing with these challenges is especially relevant for companies currently making the transition from capital and physical labor intensive transformation processes (old econ...

For most manufacturers, success or failure is determined by how effectively and efficiently their products are sold through their marketing channel members, so the management of marketing channels plays an important role in market competition. Most existing work studies the problem of marketing channel management in a qualitative way. Recently, with the increase of amount of sales data, how to ...

The main problem currently faced by market-oriented firms is not the availability of information (data), but the possession of appropriate levels of knowledge to take the right decisions. This is common background for firms. In this regard, marketing professionals and scholars highlight the necessity for knowing and explaining consumers’ behaviour patterns in an increasingly efficient way. The ...

Effective marketing depends on knowledge of customer behavior and competition. This is especially true for location-based marketers who risk sending alerts at inopportune moments or to the wrong targets. This study analyzes check-ins around Times Square in New York City using Foursquare, a location-based mobile application. The findings reveal interesting patterns of certain consumer segments f...