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Business and Management

D-Index
47
Citations
13003
World Ranking
1138
National Ranking
497

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Marketing Association

Overview

Vithala R. Rao is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Marketing and Sociology and Political Science. Other areas of specialization include Management Science and Operations Research, Economics and Econometrics, and Communication.

The main topics explored in their work are Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Consumer Retail Behavior Studies, Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting, Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, Social Capital and Networks, and Social Media and Politics.

Vithala R. Rao has published scholarly articles in several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Retailing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Management Science
  • International Journal of Research in Marketing
  • Frontiers in Public Health

Their recent papers reflect diverse research interests and empirical analysis, such as:

  • "A Dynamic Model of Rational Addiction with Stockpiling and Learning: An Empirical Examination of E-cigarettes" (2020, Management Science)
  • "The role of network embeddedness across multiple social networks: Evidence from mobile social network games" (2021, International Journal of Research in Marketing)
  • "Evaluating strategies for promoting retail mobile channel using a hidden Markov model" (2022, Journal of Retailing)
  • "A comparison of online recommendation methods: Simultaneous versus sequential approaches" (2023, Journal of Retailing)
  • "Vaccination Diffusion and Incentive: Empirical Analysis of the US State of Michigan" (2021, Frontiers in Public Health)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hwang Kim
  • Jialie Chen
  • Nathan Yang
  • Seongsoo Jang
  • Saleh Zakerinia

Among professional recognitions, Vithala R. Rao was named a Fellow of the American Marketing Association in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Conjoint Measurement for Quantifying Judgmental Data

    Paul E. Green;Vithala R. Rao

  • An Empirical Comparison of Consumer-Based Measures of Brand Equity

    Manoj K. Agarwal;Vithala R. Rao

  • How Is Manifest Branding Strategy Related to the Intangible Value of a Corporation

    Vithala R. Rao;Manoj K. Agarwal;Denise Dahlhoff

  • Linking Brand Equity to Customer Equity

    Robert P. Leone;Vithala R. Rao;Kevin Lane Keller;Anita Man Luo;Anita Man Luo;Anita Man Luo

  • Extended Framework for Modeling Choice Behavior

    Moshe Ben-Akiva;Denis Bolduc;Philippe Delquie;Tommy Gärling

  • Pricing Research in Marketing: The State of the Art

    Vithala R. Rao

  • Combining Revealed and Stated Preferences Data

    M. Ben-Akiva;M. Bradley;T. Morikawa;J. Benjamin

  • Applied Conjoint Analysis

    Vithala R. Rao

  • Research for product positioning and design decisions: An integrative review

    Anil Kaul;Vithala R Rao

  • An Approach to Assess the Importance of Brand Equity in Acquisition Decisions

    Vijay Mahajan;Vithala R. Rao;Rajendra K. Srivastava

  • Rating Scales and Information Recovery—How Many Scales and Response Categories to Use?:

    Paul E. Green;Vithala R. Rao

  • A Balance Model for Evaluating Subsets of Multiattributed Items

    Peter H. Farquhar;Vithala R. Rao

  • Conjoint Analysis, Related Modeling, and Applications

    John R. Hauser;Vithala R. Rao

  • Structural analysis of competitive behavior: New Empirical Industrial Organization methods in marketing

    Vrinda Kadiyali;K. Sudhir;Vithala R. Rao

  • A General Choice Model for Bundles with Multiple-Category Products: Application to Market Segmentation and Optimal Pricing for Bundles:

    Jaihak Chung;Vithala R. Rao

  • Beyond conjoint analysis: Advances in preference measurement

    Oded Netzer;Olivier Toubia;Eric T. Bradlow;Ely Dahan

  • A CONSTRAINED UNFOLDING METHODOLOGY FOR PRODUCT POSITIONING

    Wayne DeSarbo;Vithala R. Rao

  • Modeling Methods for Discrete Choice Analysis

    Moshe Ben-Akiva;Daniel Mcfadden;Makoto Abe;Ulf Böckenholt

  • Models of Multi-Category Choice Behavior

    P. B. Seetharaman;Siddhartha Chib;Andrew Ainslie;Peter Boatwright

  • Brand extension and customer loyalty: evidence from the lodging industry

    Weizhong Jiang;Chekitan S. Dev;Vithala R. Rao

  • Inference of Hierarchical Choice Processes from Panel Data

    Vithala R. Rao;Darius Jal Sabavala

  • Modeling the decision to add new products by channel intermediaries.

    Vithala R. Rao;Edward W. McLaughlin

  • An approach to assess the importance of brand equity in acquisition decisions/ Vijay Mahajan, Vithala R. Rao, and Rajendra K. Srivastava

    Vijay Mahajan;Vithala R. Rao;Rajendra K. Srivastava

  • Multiple-Category Products: Application to Market Segmentation and Optimal Pricing for Bundles

    Jaihak Chung;Vithala R. Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul E. Green
Paul E. Green University of Pennsylvania
Wayne S. DeSarbo
Wayne S. DeSarbo Pennsylvania State University
Yoram Wind
Yoram Wind University of Pennsylvania
Naresh K. Malhotra
Naresh K. Malhotra Georgia Institute of Technology
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles
Vijay Mahajan
Vijay Mahajan The University of Texas at Austin
Rajendra K. Srivastava
Rajendra K. Srivastava Indian School of Business
Jehoshua Eliashberg
Jehoshua Eliashberg University of Pennsylvania
Eric T. Bradlow
Eric T. Bradlow University of Pennsylvania

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