The research described in this thesis is aimed atinitiating a factually-based knowledge of the sponsorshipof leisure pursuits as a promotional tool. Research todate has been scant leaving the subject largely in therealms of supposition.The finding of this research can be classified underthree...

Purpose – The authors aim to examine the literature on enterprise resource planning (ERP) to establish whether the critical success factors (CSFs) for achieving stages of an ERP project have been empirically shown to be “critical”. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a...

This monograph presents a thorough examination of the phenomena of “threshold” levels of advertising activity and the “wearout’ of advertisements and/or campaigns. These are seen as corresponding to the management questions “How little can we spend/How infrequently can we advertise?”...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how the strength of a corporate brand influences the adoption of an innovative service, and the main components of the construct: corporate brand (CB). Design/methodology/approach – A real‐world, online, information acceleration experiment was...

The manager responsible for making advertising budget decisions is assailed with a plethora of advice and aids from specialists. Of necessity, many of the methods advocated by such specialists are not universally applicable, so their use is qualified. Many actual circumstances a manager is faced...