The Dangers ofGeneralising fromPublished Marketing Studies
Raymond Hubbard College of Business and Public Administration, Drake University
introduction
Much of marketing's empirical literature may be of questionable validity. Even marketing management 'classics' are not exempt from this charge, and some examples are presented to illustrate this. This absence of a replication and extension tradition in the discipline encourages the uncritical acceptance and dissemination of spurious findings, and precludes the likelihood of developing empirically generalisable marketing results.
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