海角社区

The woes of living life on social media

As Professor Ashesh Mukherjee makes clear in his latest book, The Internet Trap, the pitfalls of living online in the age of social media include ceaseless comparisons with others and feelings of envy.

How top performers propel others toward greatness

Forthcoming research co-authored by Professor Nathan Yang demonstrates how participants in a national diet program lost more weight when someone in their group was a standout, suggesting that exceptional performers can motivate others to reach new heights.

Synergistic, Antagonistic, and Asymmetric Media Interactions

Authors:听Ceren Kolsarici, and Demetrios Vakratsas

Publication: Journal of Advertising, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2018

The dark side of the web revolution

Professor Ashesh Mukherjee joins the Rotman School of Management to discuss learnings from his latest book, The Internet Trap, and outlines the five pitfalls of living online.

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Protecting positioning innovations: the emergence of non-traditional trademark registrations

Authors:听S. Mishra, Demetrios Vakratsas, and A. V. Krasnikov

Publication: Marketing Letters, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 2018

Managing Rapid Change and Rapid-Growth in Emerging Industries

Authors:听Hamid Etemad and Christian Keen

Publication:听International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2018

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Nathan Yang selected participant in joint Quebec and China seminar

Nathan Yang, Assistant Professor in Marketing, selected participant in joint Quebec and China seminar Big Data and Management.

As part of the collaborative agreement between the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a delegation of Qu茅bec researchers will take part in a seminar on the use of big data in management science in Nanjing, China, from September 18 to 20, 2018.

Yu Ma, Laurette Dub茅 and Nathan Yang awarded 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant

Congratulations to Yu Ma, Associate Professor in Marketing, Laurette Dub茅, Professor in Marketing and听Nathan Yang, Assistant Professor in听Marketing, on being awarded the 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant 鈥淎n Empirical Investigation of Digital Goods Consumption and Its Impact on Word-of-Mouth Marketing鈥�.

Myung-Soo Jo and Emine Sarigollu awarded 2018 海角社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative New Opportunities award

Congratulations to Myung-Soo Jo, and Emine Sarigollu,听Professors in Marketing, on being awarded the 2018 海角社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) New Opportunities award 鈥淔rom a Throwaway Society into a Sustainable Society: A Consumer Perspective鈥�.

Myung-Soo Jo and Emine Sarigollu awarded 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant

Congratulations to Myung-Soo Jo, and Emine Sarigollu,听Professors in Marketing,听on being awarded the 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant 鈥淭he Demand and Supply Sides of Corruption鈥�.听

A Model of Two-Sided Costly Communication for Building New Product Category Demand

Authors: Michelle Y. Lu , Jiwoong Shin

Publication: Marketing Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, May-June 2018

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When a firm introduces a radical innovation, consumers are unaware of the product鈥檚 uses and benefits. Moreover, consumers are unsure of whether they even need the product. In this situation, we consider the role of marketing communication as generating consumers鈥� need recognition and thus market demand for a novel product. In particular, we model marketing communication as a two-sided process that involves both firms鈥� and consumers鈥� costly efforts to transmit and assimilate a novel product concept. When the marketing communication takes on a two-sided process, we study a firm鈥檚 different information disclosure strategies for its radical innovation. We find that sharing innovation, instead of extracting a higher rent by keeping the idea secret, can be optimal. A firm may benefit from the presence of a competitor and its communication effort. The innovator can share its innovation so that competitors can also benefit, which encourages rivals to enter the market. The presence of such competition guarantees a higher surplus for consumers, which can induce greater consumer effort in a two-sided communication process. Moreover, the increased consumer effort, in turn, prompts complementarity in the communication process and lessens the potential free-riding effect in communication between firms. Additionally, it encourages the rival firm to exert more effort, especially when the role of consumers becomes more important. Sharing innovation with a rival serves as a mechanism to induce more efforts in a two-sided communication process.

A piece of Canada in a coffee cup?

Tim Hortons is not just a corporation, it鈥檚 a Canadian cultural icon.

But with international expansion and a wave of recent scandals, Desautels Faculty Lecturer Robert Mackalski comments on the brand鈥檚 ubiquity and what it will take for 鈥淭immies鈥� to regain the hearts of Canadians.

Desautels and FAES interdisciplinary research with 海角社区 food startup and Montreal community organization highlighted at the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI)

As part of C2 Montreal, the 2018 Montreal Summit on Innovation (MSI) showcased the social impacts of 10 collaborative research projects through an interactive circuit on May 23.

Low birth weight is associated with increased fat intake in school-aged boys

Authors: Adrianne R. Bischoff, Andr茅 K. Portella, Catherine Paquet, Roberta Dalle Molle, Aida Faber, Narendra Arora, Robert D. Levitan, Patr铆cia P. Silveira and Laurette Dub茅

Publication: British Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 119, No. 11, June 2018

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Inspiration from the 'Biggest Loser': Social Interactions in a Weight Loss Program

Authors: Kosuke Uetake, Nathan Yang听

Publication: Marketing Science, Forthcoming

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We investigate the role of heterogeneous peer effects in encouraging healthy lifestyles. Our analysis revolves around one of the largest and most extensive databases about weight loss that track individual participants' meeting attendance and progress in a large national weight loss program. The main finding is that while weight loss among average performing peers has a negative effect on an individual's weight loss, the corresponding effect for the top performer among peers is positive. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our results are robust to potential issues related to selection into meetings, endogenous peer outcomes, individual unobserved heterogeneity, lagged dependent variables, and contextual effects. Ultimately, these results provide guidance about how the weight loss program should identify role models.