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Exploring the impact of giving free food samples and loyalty cards on sustainable food choices: A stepped wedge trial in workplace food outlets

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 650-673, September 2024. Free samples and loyalty cards are frequently used, but there is little rigorous empirical testing of their effects. We conducted a stepped wedge trial in 29 workplace food outlets to investigate their effects on sales of plant-based meals. Outlets were randomly assigned […]

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The power of specific emotion analysis in predicting donations: A comparative empirical study between sentiment and specific emotion analysis in social media

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 610-630, September 2024. This paper investigates the role of sentiment and specific emotion analysis in forecasting donation behaviour within the context of social networking services (SNSs). The study empirically examines the influence of sentiment and specific emotion analysis on donation behaviour for two non-profit organizations

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How prevalent are suggestive brand names and Distinctive Assets? An AI-human approach

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 631-649, September 2024. Despite the concept of a suggestive brand name existing for over one hundred years (Viehoever, 1920), the prevalence of suggestive versus non-suggestive brand names has not been documented. Previously, to do so extensively would have taken considerable time and money. We now

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Semiotic protocols for cultural trend analysis in strategic communication: Brand cases from the telecommunications sector

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 567-588, September 2024. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic strongly influenced daily practices, and this manifested in social interactions, communications and consumption. This work addresses the relations between branding and cultural trends in strategic communication and advertising in different contexts of the pandemic. First, we reviewed the concepts

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Not seeing the wood for the trees: Influences on random forest accuracy

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 559-566, September 2024. Machine learning classifiers are increasingly widely used. This research note explores how a particular widely used classifier, the Random Forest, performs when faced with samples which are imbalanced and noisy data. Both are known to affect accuracy, but if their effects are

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Examining final comment questions with requests for written and oral answers

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 550-558, September 2024. Self-administered web surveys provide respondents only limited opportunities for feedback. Therefore, many web surveys include so-called “final comment questions” (FCQs) that allow respondents to elaborate on the survey in general and the survey questions in particular. Typing in open answers in text

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The urge to splurge: Differentiating unplanned and impulse purchases

International Journal of Market Research, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 519-542, September 2024. This research note addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the underlying mechanisms of purchase decision-making that lead to unplanned and impulse purchases. Although several papers have highlighted the differences between the two purchase types, recent academic publications continue to use

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Machine learning based methods for ratemaking health care insurance

International Journal of Market Research, Ahead of Print. In insurance, proposing an accurate premium that is adjusted to the insured risk profile allows companies to better manage their portfolios and to be more competitive. Machine learning methods have recently been adopted for various improvements in insurance ratemaking, especially in the automobile industry. These models are

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The power of beliefs: how diversity advertising builds audience connectedness

The power of beliefs: how diversity advertising builds audience connectednessAmelie Burgess, Dean Charles Hugh Wilkie, Rebecca DolanEuropean Journal of Marketing, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- In response to the growing significance of diversity advertising, this study aims to investigate its impact on audience connectedness. This is an emerging metric crucial for gauging diversity advertising success.

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