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Digital Marketing, Finance and Consumer Behaviour for Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 12072

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Faculty of Economics and Business, Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC), 08018 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: marketing strategies; consumer behaviour; adoption of innovation; financial technologies acceptance

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Faculty of Economics and Business, Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC), 08018 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: financial literacy; financial markets; entrepreneurship

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Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, technological advances have substantially affected various sectors, industries and, most importantly, consumer life. The widespread adoption of smartphones, the world's increasingly internet-savvy population and the full potential of the technology industry provide a myriad of opportunities for consumer interaction that need to be studied in greater depth.

Both Marketing and Finance have been affected by the momentous change observed in the technological culture, as well as the behaviour of the consumer who now has extensive knowledge related to the products and services he or she plans to buy and no longer responds to traditional marketing strategies as before.

All this has given rise, on the one hand, to the emergence of digital marketing that allows the creation of communication strategies with the consumer in a more precise and segmented way, as it is possible to track their online behaviour, and on the other hand, to the emergence of technological financial services, as well as financial technologies that bring to light the need for financial education that generates sustainable financial behaviour.

In the meantime, the aforementioned changes have emerged rapidly and there is still much to be understood about the impact of technological culture on digital marketing, finance and consumer behaviour, especially from (but not limited to) a sustainable perspective.

The aim of this Special Issue is to broaden knowledge and understanding of the impact of advancing technologies on digital marketing, finance and consumer behaviour from a multidisciplinary perspective. Therefore, we invite the scientific community to contribute to this Special Issue with different visions, and theoretical and methodological frameworks, which contribute to achieve this goal.

Dr. Iviane Ramos de Luna
Dr. Elisabet Ruiz-Dotras
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • finances
  • marketing
  • digital marketing
  • consumer behaviour
  • sustainability
  • fintech

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Optimal Policy for Probabilistic Selling with Three-Way Revenue Sharing Contract under the Perspective of Sustainable Supply Chain
by Guang Yang, Ying Wang and Mulin Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3771; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043771 - 18 Feb 2023
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Probabilistic selling (PS) is widely used in the travel industry and marketing practices; how to design a win-win contract using PS in multiple participants’ supply chain to achieve sustainable development has been a worthy concerned issue in the green supply chain development in [...] Read more.
Probabilistic selling (PS) is widely used in the travel industry and marketing practices; how to design a win-win contract using PS in multiple participants’ supply chain to achieve sustainable development has been a worthy concerned issue in the green supply chain development in China. To end this, we consider a three-players supply chain involving two firms and a common retailer in which the firms sell their transparent products via a dual channel, while the retailer sells probabilistic goods by a direct channel. First, the three players’ demand functions are derived using both a Hotelling model and taking account of consumers’ price reference effects. Second, we construct a probabilistic selling model for both decentralized and centralized supply chain systems. The optimal policies for the decentralized system are determined by employing Stackelberg sequential games and an analytical approach. Third, we propose a new three-way revenue sharing contract to deal with channel conflict. Furthermore, we determine the conditions under which the dual-channel supply chain can be coordinated to achieve a win–win situation for all participants. The results indicate that the retailer adopts probabilistic selling depending upon the relative values of the two manufacturers’ production costs in the three-way revenue sharing contract. More interestingly, PS not only can improve the supply chain’s efficiency, but also can coordinate the dual-channel supply chain to achieve a win-win situation for all participants. Finally, we present a numerical analysis to verify our results and a sensitivity analysis of the parameters involved. Full article
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Sustainable Investment Preferences among Robo-Advisor Clients
by Ida Ayu Agung Faradynawati and Inga-Lill Söderberg
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12636; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912636 - 4 Oct 2022
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The increasing role of individual investors in supporting the achievement of sustainable development goals through sustainable investment has gained growing interest from financial authorities and the research community. Digitalization in the financial sector, e.g., robo-advisors, enables lay-investors to make sustainable investments in a [...] Read more.
The increasing role of individual investors in supporting the achievement of sustainable development goals through sustainable investment has gained growing interest from financial authorities and the research community. Digitalization in the financial sector, e.g., robo-advisors, enables lay-investors to make sustainable investments in a simple and convenient way. This study investigates whether investment-related attitudes and demographic profiles are related to robo-advisor clients’ sustainable investment choices. This paper describes an empirical study that uses a logistic regression model to investigate sustainable investment preferences at the individual investor level. Cross-sectional data consisting of 27,771 individual investors in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, who purchased investment products through a robo-advisor application, are used in this study. The results suggest that, concerning investment-related attitudes, robo-advisor clients with low-risk tolerance and a short investment horizon are more likely to choose to become sustainable investors. Furthermore, sustainable investments are preferred by robo-advisor clients who are less wealthy, female, and older. Full article
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The Green Competitiveness of Enterprises: Justifying the Quality Criteria of Digital Marketing Communication Channels
by Yang Chen, Aleksy Kwilinski, Olena Chygryn, Oleksii Lyulyov and Tetyana Pimonenko
Sustainability 2021, 13(24), 13679; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413679 - 10 Dec 2021
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The omnichannel approach to forming marketing strategies for the development of the green competitiveness of enterprises is seen as a process for the inseparable interaction of marketing-mix elements that are aimed at promoting green competitiveness. This approach integrates traditional and digital marketing communication [...] Read more.
The omnichannel approach to forming marketing strategies for the development of the green competitiveness of enterprises is seen as a process for the inseparable interaction of marketing-mix elements that are aimed at promoting green competitiveness. This approach integrates traditional and digital marketing communication channels and provides consideration for stakeholder interests. The effectiveness of applying the omnichannel approach to the formation of marketing strategies to develop the green competitiveness of enterprises depends on a set of marketing communication channels, which, in various combinations, can increase or decrease the level of companies’ green competitiveness. For that purpose, this paper proposes a scientific approach to identifying the quality parameters of marketing communication channels, which involves testing the hypothesis that statistically significant relationships exist between their quality parameters and the levels of green competitiveness. The objects analyzed in the paper comprise large Ukrainian production companies that are part of the agro-industrial, mechanical engineering, and food industries, and that work in both the local and international markets. According to the results of the calculations, four relevant parameters were identified for determining the quality of the marketing communication channels: the speed of loading pages, the failure rate, image, and remarketing activities. Full article
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