Digital transformation has re-engineered tourism marketing and how destination branding competes for tourist attention, yet scholarship offers little systematic quantification of these changes. Drawing on 160 peer-reviewed studies published between 1990 and 2025, we combine grounded-theory...

The study is aimed to analyze the interrelationships of challenges of digital-marketing adoption in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector in Pakistan. The design comprises of review of up-to-date literature, primary data gathering, modeling and analysis. The data are collected through survey...

The behavioral theory of the firm explains how firms react to performance feedback, yet little is known about how firms integrate backward-looking feedback with forward-looking assessments of market opportunity. This study proposes and tests a retrenchment model grounded in SWOT-based behavioral...

The rapid advancement of Big Data technologies has significantly influenced multiple sectors, with the retail industry being a key impact area. This study explores the relationship between Big Data analytics and consumer behavior, focusing on supermarket transaction data to extract macroeconomic...

The circular economy (CE), or circularity, is a concept widely embraced by researchers and policymakers to enhance sustainability in marketing innovation. This approach emphasizes recycling, reusing, and reducing waste, catering to the needs of eco-conscious consumers while improving companies'...

Value co-creation is essential for the success and sustainability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), enabling them to integrate resources and knowledge from multiple stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, and universities, to develop innovative offerings. However, research drawing on...

This research explores the interplay between the services the Metaverse industry provides, including brand gamification, Metaverse marketing factors (novelty, interactivity, Influencer), and their impact on brand advocacy and loyalty among Generation Z within the sports industry. Employing a...

Motivated by the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, this study explores whether mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can facilitate or impede a firm's marketing capabilities. Furthermore, this study also examines whether the influence of M&As on a firm's marketing capabilities is conditional to...

The paper explores the role of marketing stories in cultivating virtue ethics in consumers. Drawing from the philosophy and storytelling tradition of the Aristotelian tragedy along with Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and Castoriadis’ insights, it is illustrated that tragic stories can be a valuable...

Marketing strategies should target entire commercial areas, not just individual stores. This study highlights the data collected from stamp rally events as cross-sectional consumer behavior data. Although stamp rally data have been analyzed as tabular data, this approach should capture the...

MSMEs have contributed to employment and economic growth. There are many challenges faced by MSMEs in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, including the use of digital marketing innovation and strategic orientation to achieve firm performance. In this research, the aim is to analyze the...

Manuscript Type: Research Article Research Aims: This study aims to examine the effect of marketing capability and relational capital on innovation performance with market orientation as a mediating variable in Indonesian SMEs. Design/methodology/approach: The research employs a quantitative...