What accounts for the diversity and limited concentration that has long characterized the organization of the advertising agency industry? This question is addressed by treating an advertising agency as a multiproduct firm. The firm's product line or service mix is defined in terms of the set of...

With the advertising industry and practice changing significantly in the last decade, it is likely that the existing management practices in advertising agencies also need some transformation. Through exploring management innovation principles and practices, novel practices might be applied by...

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two dimensions of the scope of its operations. Parameters of the model are estimated via three stage...

Das Krisenmanagement in der aktuellen zweiten Phase der Pandemie muss neben dem Gesundheitsschutz auch die Entwicklungen im wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bereich in den Blick nehmen. Dafür sollten die Krisenstäbe in Bund und Ländern ein regelmäßig aktualisiertes und kompaktes "Dashboard"...

Ralf Nöcker beleuchtet in diesem Buch Werbung und Agenturen erstmals aus ökonomischer Perspektive und widmet sich dabei makroökonomischen Fragen ebenso wie einzelwirtschaftlichen Themen. Dabei folgt er einer einfachen Systematik – vom Allgemeinen zum Besonderen. Er skizziert den heutigen...

"This book explores the field in a way that will offer insight of the significance that women had in the evolution of PR, with diverse chapters that provide rich perspectives on women's contributions to PR throughout the years and across the globe.. The book opens with an overview of women in...

"Buying into Change examines how the development of a mass consumer society under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1939-1975) inserted Spain into transnational consumer networks and set the stage for Spain's transition to democracy during the late 1970s."

In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...

In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...

Introduction -- Prologue -- True believer -- Flim-flam man -- On her own -- An association -- Contract with the devil -- Fertile ground -- Power play -- The whistle -- The World -- Damage control -- Shock waves -- Flight -- End game -- Epilogue.

Empirical studies on advertising outlays report that incumbent firms change their advertising strategies in response to a new entry. While some incumbents reduce their advertising expenditures, others increase them in comparison to the pre-entry period. Existing literature on strategic...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to research how national advertising agencies use creativity to compete with larger, global agencies in the advertising market of Sweden, Spain and Portugal. Design/methodology/approach: To conduct the study, the authors keep a qualitative approach: we first...