This paper seeks to offer an alternative perspective to the quality of life (QOL) philosophy that has been embraced by the marketing discipline. It is proposed that firms which seek to maximize QOL may violate their responsibilities to their owners and other stakeholders.

Purpose: This study aims to explore if corporations that publicly disclose more information about their managerial values are also more organizationally authentic in enacting these values. Design/methodology/approach: A maturity model of managerial values is used that ordinally ranks a...

Purpose: This study aims to take a whole-of-chain perspective to explore how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) influences collaborative performance in agri-food value-chains through enhancing the acquisition of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through a survey of 233...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the implications of service dominant logic (SDL) on the marketing/entrepreneurship interface. Design/methodology/approach – This paper integrates research from co‐creation and service dominant logic with entrepreneurship to explore the value of SDL for...

This paper explores the development and application of a self‐administered organizational diagnostic to assess the firm’s underlying business orientation. The research further explores the relationships between Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), Market Orientation (MO), and Performance with...

Much of the information for this case was taken from interviews by the first and second authors with Cindy and John Buell at Mexicali Fresh, taken directly from the Buell’s Mexicali Fresh Business Plan, and updated information from their blog posted on http://mexigrill.blogspot.com . In...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptually and empirically explore the antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial burnout – that is burnout related to the process of discovery or creation of attractive economic opportunities, the assessment of these opportunities, and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better define the contribution of entrepreneurship to the advancement of marketing thought. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a literature review that uses examples from the literature to propose new research directions. Findings – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to address one of Spotswood et al. ’s (2012) “uncomfortable questions”. The paper applies negative option marketing, the use of defaults as a behavioral engineering tool to shape choice, to social marketing and then uses the Hunt-Vitell (1986,...

This quasi-experimental study examines consumer reactions to including projected energy and carbon costs in print ads for a TV, using an online survey of 2566 Australian consumers. This study determines whether consumers' temporal orientation (past vs. future) moderates these reactions....