Reports on recent marketing strategies that simultaneously demonstrate a sense of social responsibility and satisfies shareholders′ demands for increased profits and market share, also known as cause marketing. Discusses the implementation of cause marketing through three forms of corporate...

Purpose – To classify internet users into holiday shopper and non‐shop per se gments, and to profile the demographic, psychographic, and computer use characteristics of each segment. Design/methodology/approach – Self‐report data come from a national US sample of online internet users....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of topic sensitivity and the research design techniques of forced answering (FA) (i.e. cannot proceed if leave an answer blank) and response options (use of “prefer not to answer” (PNA) option) on respondent motives for...