Marketing and Business Law publications


2026 and forthcoming

Beck, J. M., Lefebvre, S., & Voorhees, C. M. (forthcoming). Witnessing Consumer Incivility Toward Service Employees: Pity, Support, and Tipping Behavior. Journal of Service Research.

Mantrala, Murali, Drew Franklin, Tim Kalwey, Manfred Krafft, Yeji Lim, Deva Rangarajan (forthcoming), Sales force motivation, control system, and compensation & incentive research in the first half of the 21st century. Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.

Mantrala, Murali, Hermans, Marleeen, Breugelmans, Els, Lehmkuhle, Felix, Krafft, and Manfred, Kroschke, Mirja (forthcoming). What is happening to my categories? Differential effects of a radical store transformation on category sales. Journal of Retailing.

 

Publications before 2026

Beck, J. M., Voorhees, C. M., Fombelle, P. W., & Lemon, K. N. (2025). Putting words in their mouths: Firm-generated user content and consumer sharing behavior. Journal of Marketing. 90(2).

Bindal, S., Joseph, K., & Meschke, F. (2025). Corporate shutdowns in the time of Covid-19. Journal of Corporate Finance. 92: 102766.

Kalwey, T., Krafft, M., Lim, Y., & Mantrala, M. K. (2025). Holistic selling – An emerging paradigm in B2B markets. Journal of Marketing. 89: 77-99.

Ganesan, Shankar & Mantrala, M. (2025). Retailer ecosystem-centric strategy: A framework for orchestrating value in platform and non-platform configurations. Marketing Strategy Journal. 5. 100014.

Min, L., Liu, P. J., & Anderson, C. L. (2025). The visual complexity = Higher production cost lay belief. Journal of Consumer Research. 51 (6): 1167–1185

Waiser, R., Dubra, J., & Benoit, J.P. (2025). Incentives, Burnout, and Turnover: Dynamic Compensation Design with Effort Cost Spillover. Quantitative Marketing and Economics. 23(4): 589-639.

Maeng, A. (2024). Moral Faces: How spontaneous ideological inferences from facial cues influence moral judgments. Societies. 14 (8): 143–156.

Breugelmans, E., Hermans, M., Krafft, M. Kroschke, M., Lehmkuhle, F., & Mantrala, M. K. (2024). What is happening to my nearby stores? The own-and cross-effect of a radical store transformation on existing customers. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. 52 (1): 217–238.

Kamran-Disfami, O., & Mantrala, M. K. (2024). Can crowdsourcing improve prediction accuracy in fashion retail buying? Journal of Retailing. 100 (3): 404–421.

Tang, E., & Mantrala, M. K. (2024), Incorporating direct customers’ needs in a multi-dimensional B2B market segmentation approach. Industrial Marketing Management. 119: 252–263.

Banerjee, P., Hayes W. M., Chatterjee, P., Masters, T., Mishra, S., & Wedell, D. H. (2024). Factors that promote the repulsion effect in preferential choice. Judgment and Decision Making. 19: e11.

Banerjee, P., Rakshit, K., Mishra, S., & Masters, T. (2024). Attribute ratings and their impact on attraction and compromise effects. Marketing Letters. 35 (3): 439–450.

Mousavi, J., Singh, S. N., Chatterjee, P., & Masters, T. (2024). Unveiling stars: How graphical displays of online consumer ratings affect consumer perception and judgment. Journal of Marketing Research. 61 (2): 225–247.

Shalini, J., Jain, S., & Li, Y. J. (2023). Sustaining livelihoods or saving lives? Economic system justification in the time of COVID-19. Journal of Business Ethics. 183: 71–104.

Yin, B., & Li, Y. J. (2023). Benefactor- versus recipient-focused charitable appeals: How to leverage in-group bias to promote donations for out-group recipients. Journal of Advertising. 52 (5): 739–755.

Haruvy, E., Lim, B., & Leszczyc, P. T. L. (2023). The effect of surcharge on price in online auctions. Electronic Commerce Research, 23: 1161–1182.

Liu, P. J., Rim, S., Min, L., & Min, K. E. (2023). The surprise of reaching out: Appreciated more than we think. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. 124 (4): 754–771.

Tellis, G. J., Sood, A., Nair, S., & Sood, N. (2023). Lockdown without loss? A natural experiment of net payoffs from COVID-19 lockdowns. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. 42 (2): 133–151.

Ellickson, P. B., Kar, W., & Reeder III, J. C. (2023). Estimating marketing component effects: Double machine learning from targeted digital promotions. Marketing Science. 42 (4): 704–728. 

Gordon, B. R., Lovett, M. J., Luo, B., & Reeder III, J. C. (2023). Disentangling the effects of ad tone on voter turnout and candidate choice in presidential elections. Management Science. 69 (1): 220–243. 

Lim, B., Xie, Y., & Haruvy, E. (2022). The impact of mobile app adoption on physical and online channels. Journal of Retailing, 98 (3): 453–470.

Maeng, A. & Aggarwal, P. (2022). The face of political beliefs: Why gender matters for electability. Journal of Association for Consumer Research, 7 (3): 360–370.

Maeng, A., Lee, H., & Miyamoto, Y. (2022). Culture and trait inferences from facial cues. Culture and Brain, 10: 24-37.

Hewett, K., Hult, G. T. M., Mantrala, M. K., Nim, N., & Pedada, K. (2022). Cross-border marketing ecosystem orchestration: A conceptualization of its determinants and boundary conditions. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 39 (2): 619–638.

Symitsi, E., Markellos, R. N., & Mantrala, M. K. (2022). Keyword portfolio optimization in paid search advertising. European Journal of Operational Research, 303 (2): 767–778.

Timoumi, A., Gangwar, M., & Mantrala, M. K. (2022). Cross-channel effects of omnichannel retail marketing strategies: A review of extant data-driven research. Journal of Retailing, 98 (1): 133–151. 

Attari, A., Chatterjee, P., & Singh, S.N. (2022). Taking a chance for a discount: An investigation on consumers' choice of probabilistic vs. sure price promotions. Journal of Business Research, 1 (143): 366-74.

Voorhees, C. M., Beck, J. M., Randhawa, P., DeTienne, K. B., & Bone, S. A. (2021). Assessing the effects of service variability on consumer confidence and behavior. Journal of Service Research, 24 (3): 405–420.

Cialdini, R., Li, Y. J., Samper, A., & Wellman, N. (2021). How bad apples promote bad barrels: Unethical leader behavior and the selective attrition effect. Journal of Business Ethics, 168 (4): 861–880.

Brian H. J., Thorson, E., Kim, E., & Mantrala, M. K. (2021). COVID-19 communication ecology: Visualizing communication resource connections during a public health emergency using network analysis. American Behavioral Scientist, 65, (7): 893–913.

Waiser, R. (2021). Involving sales managers in sales force compensation design. Journal of Marketing Research, 58 (1): 182–201.

Hult, G. T. M., Walkowiak, T. A., & Beck, J. M. (2020). Service research: progress toward interdisciplinary collaboration. Journal of Services Marketing, 34 (3): 363–371.

Joseph, K., Mandal, A., & Singha, S. (2020). Predicting Amazon’s choice of HQ2 from social media: Evidence from the tweets of informed sources. Journal of Applied Business & Economics, 22 (10): 215–232.  

Choi, J., Li, Y. J., Rangan, P., Yin, B. M., & Singh, S. (2020). Opposites attract: Impact of background color on effectiveness of emotional charity appeals. International Journal of Research in Marketing, 37 (3): 644–660.

Yin, B. M., Li, Y. J., & Singh, S. (2020). Coins are cold and cards are caring: The effect of pregiving incentives on charity perceptions, relationship norms, and donation behavior. Journal of Marketing, 84 (6): 57–73.

Chen, L., Zhu, F., Mantrala, M. K., & Wong, N. (2020). Seller creative selling in social commerce. International Journal of Advertising, 40 (2): 272–291.

Chen, L., Zhu, F., & Mantrala, M. K. (2020). The path of support-to-sales: Mediating role of seller collaborative information exchange in social commerce. European Journal of Marketing, 55 (2): 363–384.

Banerjee, P., Chatterjee, P., Mishra, S., & Mishra, A. A. (2020). When should we not expect attraction effect? The moderating influence of analytic versus holistic thinking. Journal of Strategic Marketing,28 (5): 399–416.

2019

Chaudhuri, M., Voorhees, C. M., & Beck, J. M. (2019). The effects of loyalty program introduction and design on short-and long-term sales and gross profits. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 47: 640–658.

Joseph, K. & Loginova, O. (2019). Clipping coupons: Redemption of offers with forward-looking consumers. Economics Bulletin, 39 (3): 16941700.

Zelin, Z., Popkowski-Leszczyc, P., Qu, R., & Joseph, K. (2019). A joint optimal model of pricing, rebate value, and redemption hassle. Decision Sciences, 50 (5): 1060–1092.

Choi, J., Li, Y. J., & Samper, A. (2019). The influence of health motivation and calorie ending on preferences for indulgent foods. Journal of Consumer Research, 46 (3): 606–619.

Li, Y. J., Haws, K., & Griskevicius, V. (2019). Parenting motivation and consumer decision making. Journal of Consumer Research, 45 (5): 1117–1137.

Anand, D. & Mantrala, M. K. (2019). Responding to disruptive business model innovations: The case of traditional banks facing fintech entrants. Journal of Banking and Financial Technology, 3: 19–31.

Guan, X., Mantrala, M. K., & Bian, Y. (2019). Strategic information management in a distribution channel. Journal of Retailing, 95 (1): 42–56.

Banerjee, P., Chatterjee, P., Mishra, S., & Mishra, A.A. (2019). Loss is a loss, why categorize it? Mental accounting across cultures. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 18 (2): 77–88.

Lee, K., Choi, J., Marakas, G. M., & Singh, S. N. (2019). Two distinct routes for inducing emotions in HCI design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 124: 67–80.

Hossain, T., Shi, M., & Waiser, R. (2019). Measuring rank-based utility in contests: The effect of disclosure schemes. Journal of Marketing Research, 56 (6): 981–994.

2018

Cook, C. L., Li, Y. J., Newell, S. M., Cottrell, C. A., & Neel, R. (2018). The world is a scary place: Individual differences in belief in a dangerous world predict specific intergroup prejudices. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 21 (4): 584–596.

Maeng, A. & Aggarwal, P. (2018). Facing dominance: Anthropomorphism and the effect of product face ratios on consumer preferences. Journal of Consumer Research, 44 (5): 1104–1122.

Zhang, Z., Dong, X., Mantrala, M. K., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Optimal depth and timing of price promotions in a vertically differentiated product line. Journal of Business Research, 83: 215–228.

Scopelliti, I., Min, L., McCormick, E., Kassam, K. S., & Morewedge, C. K. (2018). Individual differences in correspondence bias: Measurement, consequences, and correction of biased interpersonal attributions. Management Science, 64 (4): 1879–1910. 

2017

Bansal, N., Joseph, K.,Ma, M., & Wintoki, M. B.(2017). Do CMO incentives matter? An empirical investigation of CMO compensation and its impact on firm performance. Management Science, 63 (6): 1993–2015.

Wang, Z., Mao, H., Li, Y. J., & Liu, F. (2017). Smile big or not? Effects of smile intensity on perceptions of warmth and competence. Journal of Consumer Research,43 (5): 787–805.

Wang, Z., Singh, S., Li, Y. J.., Mishra, S., Ambrose, M., & Biernat, M. (2017). Effects of employees’ positive affective displays on customer loyalty intentions: An emotions-as-social-information perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 60 (1): 109–129.

Maeng, A. & Aggarwal, P. (2017). Gaining power through dominant looking products: The influence of social inequality on consumption behavior. In D. Maheswaran & T. Puliyel (Eds.), Perspectives on Indian Consumer Behavior. Oxford University Press.

Kamran-Dasfani, O., Mantrala, M. K., Izquierdo-Yusta, A., & Martínez-Ruiz, M. P. (2017). The impact of retail store format on the satisfaction-loyalty link: An empirical investigation. Journal of Business Research, 77: 14–22.

Kanuri, V., Mantrala, M. K., & Thorson, E., (2017). Optimizing a menu of multi-format subscription plans for ad supported media platforms: A model and application in the daily newspaper industry. Journal of Marketing, 81 (2): 45–63.

Kohler, C., Mantrala, M. K., Albers, S., & Kanuri, K. (2017). A meta-analysis of marketing communication carryover effects. Journal of Marketing Research, 54 (6): 990–1008.

Mishra, S., Singh, S. N., Fang, X., & Yin, B. (2017). Impact of diversity, quality and number of brand alliance partners on the perceived quality of a new brand. Journal of Product & Brand Management, 26 (2): 159–176.

2016

Choi, J., Chang, Y. K., Li, Y. J., & Jang, M. (2016). Doing good in another neighborhood: Attributions of CSR motives depend on corporate nationality and cultural orientation. Journal of International Marketing, 24 (4): 82–102.

Maeng, A. & Aggarwal, P. (2016). Anthropomorphism and the effect of product face ratios on consumer preferences. In Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing.

Gopalakrishna, S., Garrett, J., Mantrala, M. K., & Sridhar, S. (2016). Assessing sales contest effectiveness: The role of salesperson and sales district characteristics. Marketing Letters, 27: 589–602.

Choi, J., Rangan, P., & Singh, S. (2016). Do cold images cause cold-heartedness? The impact of visual stimuli on the effectiveness of negative emotional charity appeals. Journal of Advertising, 45 (4): 417–426.

Kim, D., Singh, S. N., Mishra, S. K., & Wang, Z. (2016). Insidious effects of syntactic complexity: Are ads targeting older adults too complex to remember? Journal of Advertising, 45 (4): 509518.

2015

Zhang, Z., Kissan, J., & Subramaniam, R. (2015). Probabilistic selling under quality-differentiation. Management Science, 61 (8): 1938–1958.

Johnson, K. A., Li, Y. J., & Cohen, A. B. (2015). Fundamental motivations and the varieties of religious experience. Religion, Brain, and Behavior, 5 (3): 197–231.

O’Guinn, T., Tanner, R., & Maeng, A. (2015). Turning to space: Social density, social class, and the value of things in stores. Journal of Consumer Research, 42 (2): 196–213.

Maeng, A. & Aggarwal, P. (2015). Dominant designs: The effect of product face-ratio on perceived product dominance and consumer preferences. In Psychology of Design: Creating Consumer Desire.

Cabano, F. G., Maeng, A., & Mishra, S. (2015). Go green or go God? Religiosity reduces pro-environmental behaviors. NA - Advances in Consumer Research, 43: 471–475.

Krafft, M., Gotz, O., Mantrala, M. K., Sotgiu, F., & Tillmans, S. (2015). The evolution of marketing channels research: A methodological perspective. Journal of Retailing, 91 (4): 569–585.

Mantrala, M. K., et al. (2015). Business-to-business buying: Challenges and opportunities. Customer Needs and Solutions, 2 (3): 193–208.

Scopelliti, I., Morewedge, C. K., McCormick, E., Min, L., LeBrecht, S., & Kassam, K. S. (2015). Bias blind spot: structure, measurement, and consequences. Management Science, 61 (10): 2468–2486.

Rangan, P., Singh, S. N., Landau, M. J., & Choi, J. (2015). Impact of death-related television programming on advertising evaluation. Journal of Advertising, 44 (4): 326–337.