Peter N. Golder’s research while affiliated with Dartmouth College and other places

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Publications (35)


Marketing at Tuck: 120-Plus Years of Relevance, Rigor, and Impact
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September 2023

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51 Reads

Customer Needs and Solutions

Praveen K. Kopalle

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Peter N. Golder

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Kusum L. Ailawadi

Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business is known for its close-knit community and its singular focus on its full-time, 2-year residential MBA program. The school’s marketing group is small, and the marketing faculty march to the culture, strategy, and mantra of impact equals relevance plus rigor. In this paper, we provide an overview of the historical epochs of the Tuck School and how the marketing group has nurtured this culture of relevance and rigor.

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Figure 1. EF Research. Note: The white arrows are not defining features of EF, but they represent the inevitable role that the literature plays in shaping the investigator's thinking. Solid black arrows are defining features of EF.
TF and EF Research Differences.
Examples of EF Research.
EXPRESS: Learning from Data: An Empirics-First Approach to Relevant Knowledge Generation

September 2022

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724 Reads

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129 Citations

Journal of Marketing

Peter N. Golder

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Marnik G. Dekimpe

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Jake T. An

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Joseph W. Alba

A “theory-first” paradigm tends to be the dominant approach in much academic marketing research. In this approach, a theory is borrowed, refined, or developed and then tested empirically. In this challenging-the-boundaries article, we make a case for an “empirics-first” approach. Empirics-first refers to research that (i) is grounded in (originates from) a real-world marketing phenomenon, problem, or observation, (ii) involves obtaining and analyzing data, and (iii) produces valid marketing-relevant insights without necessarily developing or testing theory. The empirics-first approach is not antagonistic to theory but rather can serve as a stepping-stone to theory. The approach lends itself well to today’s data-rich environment, which can surface novel research questions untethered to theory. The present paper describes the underlying principles of an empirics-first approach, which consists of exploring a domain purposefully without preconceptions. Using a rich set of published examples, the present paper offers guidance on how to implement empirics-first research and how it can lead to valuable knowledge development. Advice is also offered to authors on how to report EF research and to reviewers and to editorial teams on how to evaluate it. Our ultimate objective is to pave a way for empirics-first to enter the mainstream of academic marketing research.


Critics’ conformity to consumers in movie evaluation

January 2022

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173 Reads

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13 Citations

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

Movie critics have long been assumed to act independently in evaluating movies. We challenge this assumption by examining consumers’ influence on critics. Drawing on the informational-normative framework of conformity, we theorize that critics conform to consumers in rating movies. This conformity results from a normative influence, in which the goal of creating favorable relationships with the public motivates critics to shift their ratings to reflect popular taste in movie evaluation. We then investigate four potential moderators of the main effect. Results from a dataset of 408 U.S. movies support the influence of consumer ratings on critic ratings; this influence increases when a movie receives more consumer reviews and decreases when critics publish reviews in media outlets for the entertainment industry (vs. general media). We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.




Incorporating Quality Considerations in Merger Analysis:: Why, What, When, and How?

June 2018

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52 Reads

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1 Citation

The Antitrust Bulletin

Mergers are common occurrences reshaping the competitive landscape in many industries. Traditionally, merger analysis has focused on the impact of the merger on price. However, price analysis ignores the other half of the value proposition for customers, namely, the quality of the product or service being offered. The authors argue that merger analysis must fully incorporate quality considerations in order to understand how customers will be affected by the merger. Some mergers will promote quality, while other mergers will inhibit quality depending on a wide variety of product, market, and customer characteristics. In order to guide merger analysts in incorporating quality considerations, the authors provide a detailed framework for answering why, what, when, and how quality should be considered in merger analysis.



When do investors reward acquisitions and divestitures? The contrasting implications of normative and behavioral economic theories

October 2017

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23 Reads

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3 Citations

We evaluate whether a contingency theory that combines a signaling hypothesis with behavioral economic theory can elucidate the discrepancy between positive expected returns to acquisitions and divestitures and the mixed-to-negative investor reactions observed in practice. We argue that, because of bounded rationality, uncertainty avoidance, and inertia, major organizational change is generally motivated by the detection of problems in an organization. Accordingly, although investors may view acquisitions and divestitures as positive corrective measures for low performers, such initiatives by high performers often signal problems that were heretofore unknown to the market. We contrast our results with predictions based on normative theories.



Citations (30)


... To better understand interactive, open, and distributed innovation processes such as SPD require an integrated analytical approach to innovation activities, sequence of the activities, market and environmental influences, and managerial issues affecting the innovation outcomes [57], [58]. In this article, we build on the networking innovation process theory [20] as an overarching framework for process modeling. ...

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Modeling Social Product Development Process, Technology, and Governance
New product development research: consolidating the present and guiding the future
  • Citing Chapter
  • February 2018

... Following an "empirics-first" approach (Golder et al. 2023), we conducted a qualitative, multiple case study (Eisenhardt 1989;Eisenhardt & Graebner 2007;Yin 2003). Multiple case studies are particularly effective for theory development, because they produce more robust, parsimonious, and generalizable theory than a single case can (Eisenhardt & Graebner 2007). ...

EXPRESS: Learning from Data: An Empirics-First Approach to Relevant Knowledge Generation

Journal of Marketing

... In recent years, as internet technologies further advance, the influence of social network have increased. For example, many movie review websites have reduced the barriers of time and space, allowing potential consumers to make preliminary judgements about a film by reading reviews written by professionals [26][27][28]. Besides the influence of online technologies, the relationship between film recommenders and potential consumers also affects social network [29]. ...

Critics’ conformity to consumers in movie evaluation
  • Citing Article
  • January 2022

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science

... The major consumer research journals have discussed replicability and approaches to decrease false-positive findings (e.g., Bergkvist, 2020;Hubbard & Lindsay, 2013;Laurent, 2013;Pham & Oh, 2021;Simmons et al., 2021). However, while some editorial offices frequently encourage replication and open-science practices (i.e., preregistration, open data, and material sharing; see, e.g., Bradlow et al., 2020;Easley & Madden, 2013;Labroo et al., 2022;Lynch et al., 2015), journals in the consumer research field generally publish only very few replication studies (Tipu & Ryan, 2022), and do not encourage large-scale replication projects. ...

Editorial: Relaunching Marketing Letters
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  • December 2020

Marketing Letters

... The critical question of how academic research influences perceived educational quality across key stakeholder groupsapplicants, academics, and recruiters-was directly addressed by Mitra and Golder (2008). They concluded that the emphasis on research output might damage the school's core mission and other areas, such as teaching quality and practical relevance of school activities. ...

Does Academic Research Help or Hurt MBA Programs?
  • Citing Article
  • September 2008

Journal of Marketing

... For instance, Marketing Science has instated since 2019 a section called "Frontiers in Marketing Science" that "publishes innovative and potentially high-impact papers with an emphasis on timely publication" (Sudhir 2018, p.1). Recently, Marketing Letters has launched a similar initiative under the name "Idea Corners section" (Golder and Jap 2020). Such initiatives should be encouraged and extended to other top marketing journals. ...

Launching the Idea Corners section of Marketing Letters
  • Citing Article
  • March 2020

Marketing Letters

... Similarly, high failure rates among pioneers create opportunities for followers, who benefit from lower costs and informational spillovers when entering markets with reduced risks [21]. In industries with substantial R&D costs, second movers often achieve superior outcomes by waiting for uncertainties to resolve, enabling more efficient technology adoption [22,23]. Thus, while first movers frequently establish initial dominance, second movers can prevail through strategic innovation and market learning. ...

Pioneer Advantage: Marketing Logic or Marketing Legend?
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  • May 1993

Journal of Marketing Research

... Divestitures also can be used as an adaptation strategy (Fortune & Mitchell, 2012;Zheng et al., 2017) to exit highly competitive and environmental uncertain industries and enter more attractive industries. Finally, divestitures can be used to reduce managers' rights (Berger & Ofek, 1999) and improve firm performance (Bergh et al., 2008;Golder et al., 2018;Hoskisson & Hitt, 1990). ...

When do investors reward acquisitions and divestitures? The contrasting implications of normative and behavioral economic theories
  • Citing Article
  • October 2017

... The four stages that are often featured in the product development process are opportunity identification, product design, sales forecasting, and commercialization (see chapter 3 of Fan et al. 24 ). One could be interested in modeling both the quantity of new ideas generated by someone as well as whether or not a new concept is implemented in the context of opportunity identification. ...

Innovation and New Products Research: A State-of-the-Art Review, Models for Managerial Decision Making, and Future Research Directions
  • Citing Chapter
  • July 2017