Marketing Academics Weekly: 9 June 2016

Ray Fisk Named Inaugural SIG Leadership Award Recipient
–Curated by: Matt Weingarden
The AMA announces Raymond P. Fisk as the recipient of the inaugural SIG Leadership Award. Dr. Fisk is founder of the Services Marketing SIG? (SERVSIG) and the SERVSIG International Conference among other activities.
Read Ray’s Profile from the Academy to learn more about his contributions to the AMA – including his role in launching ELMAR and AMA’s first website.

The AMA Gold Report: 2016 Top 50 Market Research Firms
–By: Diane Bowers and Michael Brereton
Find out which companies have grown, shrunk, moved up the list, and how the industry is transforming.

Journal Reader: Salesperson Effectiveness
–By: Zachary R. Hall
Make sure you haven’t missed one of the AMA’s most popular Journal Readers. It offers perspectives on how academics provide paths to enable salespeople to become more effective.
Related content: A Sales Champion Comments on the Critical Integration of Marketing and Sales
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Brand Buzz in the Echoverse
–By: Kelly Hewett, William Rand, Roland T. Rust, & Harald J. van Heerde
This study empirically documents the existence of a reverberating echoverse for brand communication, in which there are complex feedback loops (“echoes”) between the “universe” of corporate communications, news media, and user-generated social media.
AMA now publishes Article Snapshots with all new AMA Journal articles. Head to the Journal of Marketing to see new and archived Article Snapshots.