AMS ReviewPub Date : 2024-04-13DOI: 10.1007/s13162-024-00275-9
O. C. Ferrell, Dana E. Harrison, Linda K. Ferrell, Haya Ajjan, Bryan W. Hochstein
{"title":"A theoretical framework to guide AI ethical decision making","authors":"O. C. Ferrell, Dana E. Harrison, Linda K. Ferrell, Haya Ajjan, Bryan W. Hochstein","doi":"10.1007/s13162-024-00275-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-024-00275-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics is needed to address the risks that are outpacing efforts to protect consumers and society. AI is becoming human-competitive with the ability to perform tasks, that without controls, can result in harmful or destructive actions. Principles are currently the most discussed ethical approach for pervasive boundaries for algorithmic rule-based intelligence. Principles, values, norms, and rules should be the foundation of an ethical corporate culture with all participants aware of and involved in developing AI ethics. To address these concerns, a theory-based decision framework is presented to incorporate ethical considerations into AI applications. With limited discussion on frameworks to manage AI ethics, we provide a modification of the Hunt–Vitell (H–V) ethical decision model to provide a supportive theoretical framework. This model considers the cultural, industry, organizational, and legal standards that shape AI ethical decision making. The model is based on individual decision making and parallels the decision process in autonomous AI system decision making. Topics for additional research are advanced to create expanded knowledge on this topic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"14 1-2","pages":"53 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140707327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1007/s13162-024-00273-x
Lena V. Bjørlo
{"title":"Freedom from interference: Decisional privacy as a dimension of consumer privacy online","authors":"Lena V. Bjørlo","doi":"10.1007/s13162-024-00273-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-024-00273-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The introduction of AI-based technologies has dramatically altered the premises for consumer privacy, enabling the unprecedented manipulation of consumers’ decision-making online. Given these recent threats to consumer privacy and autonomy, and considering autonomy as the ultimate outcome of privacy, I propose that a reconceptualization is warranted to reflect contemporary consumer privacy challenges and to realign the concept with its theoretical foundations. To this end, I introduce the dimension of decisional privacy, focused on autonomy versus interference in consumer decision-making. Building on previous privacy literature and extending previous theorizing about information privacy and decisional privacy as complementary, I posit that these two dimensions of privacy together comprise consumer privacy. Addressing protection from interference as an under-communicated function of consumer privacy, the paper aims to clarify, exemplify, and engage in the conceptual development of decisional privacy in the context of consumer decision-making online. In addition to its significance for consumer wellbeing and democracy collectively, the extension of consumer privacy to explicitly encompass interference has theoretical implications for privacy concern, the proxy used to measure privacy, yielding important insights for marketing scholars and practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"14 1-2","pages":"12 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13162-024-00273-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2024-01-19DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00272-4
Dhrithi Mahadevan, G. Shainesh
{"title":"Conceptualizing customer experience in multi-actor platforms","authors":"Dhrithi Mahadevan, G. Shainesh","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00272-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00272-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Customer experience (CX) is a critical marketing concept, yet most CX research has focused on pipeline business settings. This paper presents a framework for CX in multi-actor platform settings. The study identifies key differences between multi-actor platforms and pipeline businesses based on extant literature. Using value cocreation as a theoretical lens, the study uses the key differentiating characteristics to identify the emerging drivers of CX for platform touchpoints. These include ecosystem integration capabilities, optimized matchmaking algorithms, robust digital and technological support systems, trust and reputation mechanisms, and prosumption opportunities. Further, the study identifies provider-specific drivers of CX as asset performance, skills and capabilities, interpersonal interaction capabilities, and ambiance. The findings suggest that CX is not only shaped through interactions between multiple actors but also by the capabilities of the system as a whole to facilitate value cocreation processes. The paper presents propositions to further our understanding of CX in such business settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"14 1-2","pages":"83 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139525345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00271-5
Stephen L. Vargo
{"title":"Conceptual reconciliation for clarity and impact","authors":"Stephen L. Vargo","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00271-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00271-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"169 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142414294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00267-1
Terry Clark, Thomas Martin Key, Carol Azab
{"title":"Contours of the marketing literature: Text, context, point-of-view, research horizons, interpretation, and influence in marketing","authors":"Terry Clark, Thomas Martin Key, Carol Azab","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00267-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00267-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The marketing literature is the elemental material out of which all of our academic articles are created. It is not possible to conduct an empirical study in academic marketing without referencing the theories, arguments, prior studies, and findings of our literature. While observation, scale development and measurement are all signature features of modern academic marketing, they can only be intelligible when contextualized in terms of the history, structure, and development of theory found in our literature. Despite the fact that 75% of the most cited marketing articles are literature-based, conceptual/theoretical in nature (Clark & Key in <i>AMS Review</i>, 11, 416–431, 2021), our discipline has moved in a methodological/mathematical modelling direction (Yadav, 2010; Key et al., 2020). Yet this move has not increased the influence of the field as many expected. Despite this situation, other than a few articles on the <i>literature review</i>, the marketing literature per se has received little attention. In light of this, the purposes of this paper, are to: 1) extend the limited work on the nature and uses of the marketing literature; 2) encourage the development of studies that have proven influential, namely conceptual/theoretical articles; 3) provide materials for doctoral seminars suitable to nurturing a deeper appreciation of the complexities of our literature and its application in theory development; and 4) provide fresh perspectives for marketing scholars in the best uses of our literature. Borrowing from fields that specialize in the study of academic literatures, the authors identify several important features of the marketing literature, including: how our literature <i>as texts</i> differs from spoken research presentations and why this matters; demonstrating why an article’s context, point-of-view, and research horizons are critical to a reasonable interpretation and use of articles; and how academic marketing articles gain influence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"232 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138594818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00270-6
Gulay Taltekin Guzel
{"title":"A practice theoretic perspective on influence","authors":"Gulay Taltekin Guzel","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00270-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00270-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The extant literature on influence explores how attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are shaped. This research falls into three main categories: social influence, persuasive communication–based influence, and choice architecture–based influence. Collectively, these literatures offer conceptualizations of influence that can be applied to improve consumer well-being and business efficacy. Yet while this body of work is impressive, it stops short of illuminating the full spectrum of influence; in particular, current theories has been unable to fully account for embodied activities and the interconnected nature of consumption activities within social influences. This paper begins to fill this gap by exploring the origins (impingement-based influence and opportunity-based influence) and outcomes (practice updating, practice abandonment, and new practice adoption) of influence on consumer practices. The study enriches and extends prior research on influence by offering new venues for research and directions for future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"250 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00269-z
Matthew Alexander, Niklas Vallström
{"title":"Value co-destruction: Problems and solutions","authors":"Matthew Alexander, Niklas Vallström","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00269-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00269-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of value co-creation (VCC) is central to service-dominant logic (SDL) and forms its second axiom, namely that “Value is cocreated by multiple actors, always including the beneficiary” (Vargo & Lusch, 2016, p.8). In parallel with the evolution of VCC in SDL, the term “value co-destruction” (VCD) has also emerged within the services and marketing literature (Echeverri & Skålén, 2011; Plé & Cáceres, 2010). Value co-destruction is pitched as a reverse concept to VCC—another side of the same coin (Plé, 2017)—capturing how interactions, practices, and resource integrations between actors might have negative impacts on value formation. Research on VCD has both expanded and fragmented (Echeverri & Skålén, 2021), but the concept has not been subject to the same scrutiny as VCC. In this article, we question the logic underpinning VCD conceptualization and problematize its use. We articulate three specific problems: first, the need to view VCC as a normative statement; second, a logical flaw in how VCD captures negative outcomes; and third, an issue with the “co” in co-destruction. We offer two solutions for researchers in this area: first, given that VCC is representative of a metatheory, we present mid-range theories as providing opportunities for exploring the role of valence in interactive service experiences; second, we identify literature that presents a continuum of contrasting negative and positive value outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"200 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13162-023-00269-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139201108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00264-4
Stacey L. Malek, Georgia Kirilova, Shikhar Sarin
{"title":"Talent management in marketing: A framework and agenda for future research","authors":"Stacey L. Malek, Georgia Kirilova, Shikhar Sarin","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00264-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00264-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Marketing managers and academics are recognizing a widening gap between contemporary demands of markets and the capabilities of the marketing function, calling for greater attention to identifying, developing, and retaining ‘talent’ in the marketing organization. However, the marketing literature provides limited and fragmented guidance on what talent management in marketing entails, how to cultivate it, and how to leverage it to positively impact marketers and key marketing outcomes. Drawing on a review of 71 articles published in top marketing and human resource management journals since 2000, we introduce the concept of Talent Management in Marketing Systems (TALMARKS). We identify six core elements of TALMARKS: attracting, recruiting and selecting, training and developing, evaluating and compensating, recognizing and rewarding, succession planning and promoting, and measuring and reporting. We further develop a comprehensive conceptual framework of TALMARKS, outlining its key antecedents, outcomes and boundary conditions. Finally, we propose a future research agenda of avenues that might provide guidance on expanding this fundamental and underdeveloped topic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"327 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135633971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMS ReviewPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1007/s13162-023-00265-3
Bernard J. Jaworski
{"title":"The management of marketing talent","authors":"Bernard J. Jaworski","doi":"10.1007/s13162-023-00265-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13162-023-00265-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is very little research on talent management in the marketing discipline. This is despite the significant time and effort that firms allocate the to the entire marketing talent pipeline—including recruitment, selection, training, development, rewards, and promotion within the firm. Michael Farrington serves as the senior vice president, people and culture at Nuvasive and is responsible for the company’s human resources, talent, and total rewards, as well as the corporate marketing, brand and communication functions. This interview sheds light on the nature of how firms manage the end-to-end talent pipeline in marketing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7786,"journal":{"name":"AMS Review","volume":"13 3-4","pages":"320 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13162-023-00265-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135775134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}