The evolution and structure of internet-based consumer research : a citation analysis

COOMBES, Philip and AL-ABDIN, Ahmed (2016). The evolution and structure of internet-based consumer research : a citation analysis. In: 4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 22-24 June 2016. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic literature review into the evolution and structure of internet-based ethnographic consumer research during the twenty-year period between 1996 and 2015. The results of a quantitative citation analysis and a qualitative synthesis are presented which demonstrate the limited engagement that marketing researchers have had with the discipline and the limited degree to which the discipline has influenced that literature. This hitherto lack of research presents a significant lacuna and a significant opportunity for marketing scholarship to engage further with that literature. Similarly, there are particular thematic areas where knowledge is currently lacking. Taken together, the quantitative citation analysis and qualitative synthesis demonstrate that netnography is very much an emerging trend in the consumer research literature and there are many theoretical, empirical and practical bases upon which it may be applied, especially in the context of future studies. Keywords: citation analysis, consumer research, netnography, systematic literature review

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Sheffield Business School Research Institute > Marketing and Strategy
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Sheffield Business School > Department of Management
Depositing User:	Philip Coombes
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2016 09:21
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 11:31
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12588

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