M Science is in a very healthy state as the premier journal for quantitative research in marketing. Since its inception, it has led the way in bringing novel and innovative methodologies and expanding into new substantive areas of inquiry. The journal is now at the cusp of its next stage of creativity and innovation. I outline new research possibilities due to big data, behavioral field studies...

This paper examines the use of marketing strategies by Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) in rural areas and identifies how they are limited by various internal and external factors. The study aimed to determine whether rural SMMEs have formal marketing strategies, the factors that constrain their marketing activities, their understanding of what marketing entails and the marketing com...

As practitioners and industries become more comfortable with the use of social media applications as a marketing tool, social media is becoming ubiquitous. However, social media must be managed just like the rest of media that organizations use to deploy their content and marketing strategy as part of their overall marketing strategy. Nevertheless, scholar research on social media marketing str...

A number of measurement frameworks have been developed to help organisations assess the effectiveness of their marketing activities. Yet, the approaches provided by these frameworks seem to be largely linear and outdated. Whilst effectively explaining cause-and-effect relationships between marketing efforts and performance in the offline domain, the existent marketing performance measurements f...

Influenced by many factors, enterprise marketing capability is essential for improving the enterprise marketing competitiveness and its sustainable development. By studying the factors comprehensively and effectively, the enterprise can better recognize their marketing capability and the direction of improvement. This paper studies and analyzes the enterprise marketing capability measure method...

Marketing departments handles with a great volume of data which are normally task or marketing activity dependent. This requires the use of certain, and perhaps unique, specific knowledge background and framework approach. Database marketing provides in depth analysis of marketing databases. Knowledge discovery in database techniques is one of the most prominent approaches to support some of th...

BACKGROUND Research findings are of little benefit to patients or society if they do not reach the audience they are intended to influence. A dissemination strategy is needed to target new findings at its user group and encourage a process of consideration and adoption or rejection. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different marketing strategies for the disseminatio...

This study evaluates the current status of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) research through an exhaustive literature review of relevant articles. We have identified a total of 83 eWOM research articles published from 2001 through 2010. Published research into eWOM first appeared in peerreviewed journals about ten years ago, and research has been steadily increasing. Among research topic area, t...

Modeling MCDM requires the simultaneous consideration of multiple criteria but traditional statistical techniques can only evaluate these factors independently. As such, it is vital for managers to have a clear picture of customers’ preferences in order to design more focused marketing strategies; whereas the existing body of work is unable to meet such a requirement. To tackle these challenges...

This paper links the declining propensity of multinational firms to share ownership of their foreign operations to increasing returns to coordination associated with managing globalized operations. The paper isolates the characteristics associated with the decision to share ownership in international operations and then employs two exogenous shifts in the relative cost of sharing ownership to i...