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The marketing consequences of competitor lawsuits

2006· article· de· W2207082468 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Betsy D. Gelb, Darren Bush

Bibliographic record

VenueMIT Sloan management review · 2006
Typearticle
Languagede
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicSecurities Regulation and Market Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLawsuitPublicityCompetitor analysisCredibilityVerdictTrademarkDamagesBusinessAdvertisingQuarter (Canadian coin)MarketingFace (sociological concept)EconomicsLawPolitical scienceSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Traditionally, when managers have been considering whether to file a lawsuit, their attorneys have advised them on factors such as the likely costs of a suit and the probability of obtaining damages. However, the authors note, companies today may want to consider an additional factor: the possible marketing consequences ? positive or negative ? of a given lawsuit. In particular, the authors discuss the marketing implications of lawsuits between competitors or potential competitors. They consider the marketing ramifications of a lawsuit between two rival pizza chains, Pizza Hut Inc. and Papa John?s International, over advertising claims made by Papa John?s ? and conclude that publicity surrounding an initial verdict in Pizza Hut?s favor (a verdict later overturned) generally conveyed Pizza Hut?s perspective to the public, presumably with more credibility than similar advertising would have. The authors also examine a trademark dispute between Starbucks Corp. and the owner of the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe, a bar in Galveston, Texas, which markets ?Starbock? beer. In this case, they observe that Starbucks faced the marketing risk of appearing to be a bully. The authors also explore how large corporations in suits with smaller rivals may face a risk of negative publicity, while small companies may face financial risks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0040.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations73
Published2006
Admission routes1
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