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48
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10730
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1096
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481

Overview

Brian T. Ratchford is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Business, Management and Accounting, with a notable emphasis on Social Sciences. The subfields in which they contribute include Marketing, Sociology and Political Science, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's publication record shows a strong presence in several key journals, with the most frequent venue being the Journal of Retailing, where four papers have appeared. Other common publication venues include the Journal of Business Research, SSRN Electronic Journal, Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC, and the Journal of Interactive Marketing.

Brian T. Ratchford's recent papers illustrate the thematic focus of their work:

  • "Online and offline retailing: What we know and directions for future research" (2022) in Journal of Retailing
  • "The history of academic research in marketing and its implications for the future" (2020) in Spanish Journal of Marketing - ESIC
  • "Innovations in retail delivery: Current trends and future directions" (2023) in Journal of Retailing
  • "Multichannel customer purchase behavior and long tail effects in the fashion goods market" (2022) in Journal of Retailing
  • "Evolution of retail formats: Past, present, and future" (2020) authored by a frequent co-author and published in Journal of Retailing

Their work covers main topics such as Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Consumer Retail Behavior Studies, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Sharing Economy and Platforms, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Digital Platforms and Economics, and Supply Chain and Inventory Management.

Frequent collaborative partners in research include Gonca Soysal, Aidin Namin, Dinesh K. Gauri, Alejandro Zentner, and Rupinder P. Jindal.

Best Publications

  • Consumer information search revisited: Theory and empirical analysis

    Sridhar Moorthy;Brian T. Ratchford;Debabrata Talukdar

  • An Empirical Test of a Model of External Search for Automobiles

    Narasimhan Srinivasan;Brian T. Ratchford

  • A Model of Consumer Choice of the Internet as an Information Source

    Brian T. Ratchford;Debabrata Talukdar;Myung-Soo Lee

  • The Impact of the Internet on Information Search for Automobiles

    Brian T. Ratchford;Myung Soo Lee;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Can price dispersion in online markets be explained by differences in e-tailer service quality?

    Xing Pan;Brian T. Ratchford;Venkatesh Shankar

  • Cost-Benefit Models for Explaining Consumer Choice and Information Seeking Behavior

    Brian T. Ratchford

  • The Economics of Consumer Knowledge

    Brian T. Ratchford

  • Price dispersion on the internet: A review and directions for future research

    Xing Pan;Brian T. Ratchford;Venkatesh Shankar

  • A model of retail format competition for non-durable goods

    Amit Bhatnagar;Brian T. Ratchford

  • A model of search behavior with an application to grocery shopping

    Sanjay Putrevu;Brian T. Ratchford

  • Strategic online and offline retail pricing: A review and research agenda

    Dhruv Grewal;Ramkumar Janakiraman;Kirthi Kalyanam;P.K. Kannan

  • Retailer Pricing and Competitive Effects

    Praveen Kopalle;Dipayan Biswas;Pradeep K. Chintagunta;Jia Fan

  • Price competition between pure play versus bricks-and-clicks e-tailers: Analytical model and empirical analysis

    Xing Pan;Venkatesh Shankar;Brian T. Ratchford

  • The New Economic Theory of Consumer Behavior: An Interpretive Essay

    Brian T. Ratchford

  • Evolution of retail formats: Past, present, and future

    Dinesh K. Gauri;Rupinder P. Jindal;Brian Ratchford;Edward Fox

  • Optimal Bundling of Technological Products with Network Externality

    Ashutosh Prasad;R. Venkatesh;Vijay Mahajan

  • An Empirical Investigation of Returns to Search

    Brian T. Ratchford;Narasimhan Srinivasan

  • The impact of the internet on consumers' use of information sources for automobiles : A re-inquiry

    Brian T Ratchford;Debrabrata Talukdar;Myung-Soo Lee

  • Online and offline retailing: What we know and directions for future research

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  • Measuring Market Efficiency and Welfare Loss

    Wagner A. Kamakura;Brian T. Ratchford;Jagdish Agrawal

  • On the Efficiency of Internet Markets for Consumer Goods

    Brian T. Ratchford;Xing Pan;Venkatesh Shankar

  • Can Price Dispersion in Online Markets be Explained byDifferences in e-Tailer Service Quality?

    Xing Pan;Brian T. Ratchford;Venkatesh Shankar

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkatesh Shankar
Venkatesh Shankar Southern Methodist University
P. K. Kannan
P. K. Kannan University of Maryland, College Park
Debabrata Talukdar
Debabrata Talukdar University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Barbara E. Kahn
Barbara E. Kahn University of Pennsylvania
Wagner A. Kamakura
Wagner A. Kamakura Rice University
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
David Bell
David Bell University of Leeds
Gal Zauberman
Gal Zauberman Yale University
Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
Vijay Mahajan
Vijay Mahajan The University of Texas at Austin

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