Category: Blog
Organizational ambidexterity: What is it and why should we care?
Mathew Hughes discusses organizational ambidexterity, presenting a comprehensive compilation of analysis about this crucial issue, and his 17 burning research questions that need urgent answers
Read moreOnline trolls: Understanding and managing there mischief
Maja Golf-Papez and Ekant Veer propose a definition of trolling that delineates trolling from other similar behaviour, and discuss how marketers should respond to it.
Read moreIncreasing Your Organisational Reach on Twitter
Soboleva et al. examine the Twitter practices of leading brands, investigating tweet features that make tweets more likely (or sometimes, less likely) to be retweeted.
Read moreI’m sad, therefore I shop. Is that bad?
Koles, Wells and Tadajewski review the development of research into compensatory consumption and introduce a conceptual distinction between compensation and compromise.
Read moreEngaging the Audience through Videography as Performance
Seregina proposes that one way to activate audiences, interact directly with them & engage them in meaning-making is to approach videography as performance.
Read moreDeterring deviant consumer behaviour
Paula Dootson, Ian Lings, Amanda Beatson and Kim Johnston discuss alternate tactics to deter deviant consumer behaviour, including social proofing, moral triggers and humanising the victim
Read moreMarketing higher education: utilising student-generated social media data
Elvira Bolat discusses her research with Helen O’Sullivan, proposing that HEIs should adopt market-driven business practices and look to leverage student-generated social media content.
Read moreCrowdsourcing – no substitute for old school market research
Richard Gruner discusses his research with Damien Power into whether crowdsourcing can replace more traditional methods of market research.
Read moreIt’s just like milk, but different!
Christian Fuentes & Maria Fuentes discuss how marketing is used to construct a mass market for an alternative vegan milk substitute.
Read moreCorporate conflict management on social media
Denitsa Dineva, Jan Breitsohl and Brian Garrod look at how firms manage consumer conflicts in their brand fan pages on Facebook.
Read moreWhy do firms delete brands?
Purvi Shah investigates why firms delete brands from their portfolios, finding both financial and non-financial reasons.
Read moreMaking a market for male dairy calves
Gillian Hopkinson uses actor network theory, the market studies literature and the notion of concerned markets to trace the making and shaping of two market versions for male dairy calves.
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