International Business
Trade
What Is at Stake in China-US Relations? An Estimate of Jobs and Money Involved in the Bilateral Economic Tie
Alarm bells are ringing about President Donald Trump’s pronouncements against China as well as his threats to impose a 45% tariff against Chinese imports after...
Consumer Behavior
The Six Faces of Value Co-creation: A Field Guide for Executives
How can firms best engage customers to co-create value? A surge in academic and practical interest around this question of value co-creation (VCC) highlights...
Supply Chain Management
Purchasing
When One Size Must Fit All: How a Large MNC Centralized Its Purchasing
In a world where customization has become commonplace, can companies still standardize their purchasing practices? The increasingly complicated and globalized...
Consumer Behavior
Marketing
Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling: Which Labels Benefit Consumers the Most and Why Do They Help?
Consumers are increasingly exposed to nutrition and health information on food packages. In particular, front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling has become a...
Marketing
Consumer Behavior
Quest for the Grail: Measuring the Incremental Influence of Promotions in a Digital Big Data World
Despite the prevalence and variety of attribution methods, there are no strong substitutes for controlled experiments when trying to measure the causal impact...
Research
Government-Funded Basic Research: What’s in It for Firms?
We rely on previous research and highlight the subtle pathways by which state-funded basic research has the potential to affect economic growth and livings...
Regulation
Business Services
Reregulation of Business Data Services
This article describes recent regulatory developments for business data services. This is a huge market estimated to be between $45- and $75 billion, dominated...
Innovation
Human Resources
How to Learn From Failure. Organizational Creativity, Learning, Innovation and the Benefit of Failure
There are many aspects of failure that could be of value to the organization performance. Failures are results that do not confirm previous expectations and...
Culture
Management
Building Closer Economic Ties between China and Africa: Small Traders Operating in China
There are an increasing number of small African traders operating business in China and developing the “China-Africa Supply Chain.” While this has contributed...
Sustainability
The Sustainability Advantage: The Positive Effect of a Sustainability Orientation on Online Funding Success
With the needs of social entrepreneurs being unmet or underserved by traditional capital markets, crowdfunding offers a distinct avenue for acquiring resources...
Diversity
Leadership
Understanding Religious Diversity in Management
Can managers afford to be oblivious to the religious commitments of their employees, or is religion an important factor in management? Are all religions the...
Regulation
Management
Management and Regulatory Focus: Three New Domains of Application
This article highlights practical applications for managers and leaders of organizations stemming from recent research on regulatory focus theory. Research has...
Social Behavior
Marketing
Social Exclusion Stimulates Product and Brand Switching
The days of complete customer loyalty are over, and understanding consumer switching behavior is a new horizon in retailing and branding. In our recent work, we...
Impact Index
Retail
The Rutgers Business School Payment Practices Index for the U.S. Retail Industry
The Center for Market Advantage presents the Rutgers Business School Payment Practices Index for the U.S. retail industry. The Payment Practices Index surveys...
