Purpose This paper aims to analyse the general effect of co-created products on the brand equity of observers (OBBE). The influence of different implementations of the co-creation approach on the OBBE is tested. It is also discussed whether co-creation can be a strategic method for companies to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons for the discontinuation of sports sponsor–sponsee relationships and categorize them. Despite the negative outcomes of a sponsorship dissolution, research on this topic is rather scarce. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relies...

Markenführung muss heute holistisch verstanden und umgesetzt werden. Der B*canvas 2.0, welcher die Grundidee und Methodik des Business Canvas nach Osterwalder und Pigneuer auf den Markenbereich überträgt, fördert dieses ganzheitliche Verständnis. Der B*canvas 2.0 wird ausführlich inklusive...

Purpose – Although practitioners and scholars alike embrace service customization as a possibly powerful management instrument, its impact on customer relationships as well as contingencies for its effective application are not well understood. Drawing from relationship marketing and exchange...

Purpose: The enabling technologies that emerged from information technology (IT) have had a considerable influence upon the development of marketing tools, and marketing has become digitalized by adopting these technologies over time. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the impacts of...