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Group Identity in Markets

Kutsal Dogan, University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
Ernan Haruvy, University of Texas at Dallas - Department of Marketing
Sherry Xin Li, University of Texas at Dallas

Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing

David Glen Mick, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
Thomas Bateman, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
Richard Lutz, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration


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KUTSAL DOGAN, University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management
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ERNAN HARUVY, University of Texas at Dallas - Department of Marketing
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SHERRY XIN LI, University of Texas at Dallas
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In many exchange settings, the buyer has full latitude to select the seller to partner with. In such settings, group identity - a person's perceived membership in social groups - may influence partner selection as well as the price offer. To study this possibility in the laboratory, we artificially induce group identity in different experimental treatments, using art preferences and college majors respectively. We then divide subjects into the roles of buyers and sellers with heterogeneous rankings over each other. Sellers repeatedly make price offers and buyers can select any offer. Our investigation aims to outline the impact of the induced group identities on price offers and matches. We find that other things being equal, buyers are more likely to accept offers from ingroup sellers than from outgroup sellers. Sellers take advantage of this by offering higher prices to ingroup buyers than to outgroup buyers. Both group identity treatments disrupt the convergence process and result in a greater number of bargaining impasses relative to the control treatment of no group identity.

"Wisdom: Exploring the Pinnacle of Human Virtues as a Central Link from Micromarketing to Macromarketing" Free Download

DAVID GLEN MICK, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
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THOMAS BATEMAN, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
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RICHARD LUTZ, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration
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The macromarketing system is largely the function of many micromarketing decisions made each day. But this connection has not been probed thoroughly in the macromarketing literature, and there is a need for conceptual frameworks that can successfully link the challenges of effective micromarketing with the laudable goals of the macromarketing field, which focuses on the interdependencies between marketing and society. To this end, we explore wisdom, the zenith of human virtues, through pertinent literature and in-depth interviews with executives nominated for their wise decision making. We discovered that wisdom in marketing is characterized by the recognition and management of five central paradoxes (e.g., the need for expertise versus the need to admit knowledge limitations; the need to enact authority and accountability versus the need for ego control). We discuss the implications of these findings for the theory, practice, and teaching of macromarketing, and for basic wisdom theory.

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Behavioral Marketing

JENNIFER AAKER
General Atlantic Professor of Marketing, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

JOSEPH W. ALBA
Distinguished Professor of Marketing, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration

DAN ARIELY
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Visiting Professor of Marketing, Fuqua Schoolof Business, Duke University

RUSSELL W. BELK
Professor of Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University

JAMES R. BETTMAN
Burlington Industries Professor of Marketing, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

AMITAVA CHATTOPADHYAY
l'Oreal Chaired Professor of Marketing-Innovation and Creativity, INSEAD - Marketing

JOHN DEIGHTON
Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Editor of Journal of Consumer Research, Harvard Business School

GERALD J. GORN
Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - Department of Marketing

J. WESLEY HUTCHINSON
Stephen J. Heyman Professor and Professor of Marketing, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

ERIC J. JOHNSON
Norman Eig Professor of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School

BARBARA E. KAHN
University of Miami - Department of Marketing

FRANK R. KARDES
University of Cincinnati - Department of Marketing

PUNAM ANAND KELLER
Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

DAWN LACOBUCCI
Vanderbilt University

SIEW MENG LEONG
Professor of Marketing, National University of Singapore - Business School

DAVID GLEN MICK
Robert Hill Carter Professor of Marketing, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

THOMAS C. O'GUINN
Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Marketing, Professor of Advertising, University of Illinois

DEBORAH ROEDDER JOHN
Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Marketing, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

TERENCE A. SHIMP
W.W. Johnson Distinguished Foundation Fellow, University of South Carolina - Moore School of Business

ALVIN J. SILK
Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, Harvard Business School

ITAMAR SIMONSON
Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business

JAN-BENEDICT E.B.M. STEENKAMP
Knox Massey Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Area Chair of Marketing , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Marketing Area

CRAIG THOMPSON
Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor of Marketing, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business

ALICE M. TYBOUT
Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

JOEL URBANY
Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, University of Notre Dame - Department of Marketing

MELANIE WALLENDORF
Eller Professor of Marketing, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management