Behavioural Public Policy is an interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed journal devoted to behavioural research and its relevance to public policy. BPP seeks to be multidisciplinary and therefore welcomes articles from economists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, legal scholars and others, so long as their work relates the study of human behaviour directly to a policy concern. Edited by George A. Akerlof Georgetown University, USA, Adam Oliver London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Cass R. Sunstein Harvard Law School, USA, BPP focuses on high-quality research which has international relevance and which is framed such that [...]

Segmentation in Social Marketing - Process, Methods and Application, edited by Timo Dietrich, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele & Krzysztof Kubacki is a welcomed and long overdue book on segmentation in social marketing. The book brings together current innovative methods and approaches to segmentation and outlines why segmentation is needed to support more effective social marketing programme design. It presents a variety of segmentation approaches alongside case studies of their application in various social marketing contexts including food waste, volunteering, alcohol, sexual health, flu prevention, healthy eating, and active school travel. It includes contributions from Jeff French, Sally Dibb and Nancy Lee, amongst others, [...]

ESMA organises in partnership with iSMA a series of webinars on social marketing open to all ESMA and iSMA members. The webinar series provides a great opportunity to learn about most recent and evidence-based social marketing developments and resources worldwide. If you are interested in presenting your work in the webinar to a wide social marketing audience, please send us a proposal. The proposal should describe briefly the topic and specify the audience level (e.g. social marketing beginner, expert, practitioner, academic etc.). ESMA members have now access to iSMA resources, including the webinars. All members also have access to the video-recordings [...]

The Journal of Marketing Management provides free access to the articles of the month. The featured articles of September include pieces on social marketing and publishing.  Duane et al. (2016) adopt a system-based methodology to examine complex exchanges in social marketing. Luca et al. (2016) draw on Network and service theory to explore value creation at the midstream level in a social marketing smokefree programme. Johnstone and Hooper (2016) explore how consumers’ green consumption behaviours are influenced by the social environment, within a social cognitive framework. Tadajewski (2016) provides a refreshing view on the rising importance of journal rankings and academic [...]