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The purpose of this document is to explore the intellectual structure of viral marketing, its evolution and research trends. To this end, using scientometric techniques and tools, an analysis of citations was made, based on 188 publications on the subject, from 2000 to 2020, in the Web of Science database. This article identifies three sub-areas that have emerged from the literature. The first one focused on the factors that generate influence in the consumers’ decision making, when interacting with the content generated by the company; the second, explores how viral marketing has been enhanced by the advent of social networks; finally, the third one studies the use of influencers as a dynamic element in campaigns of this type. This work explores the intersection between the discipline of marketing and the use of social networks, especially as the latter are an element for the propagation of the messages of companies and consumers.

Several studies have empirically explored the association between practices in sustainable tourism and their impact on tourism marketing. However, bibliometric studies that organize the production in this field are still scarce. The objective of this study is thus to provide a bibliometric analysis of research on sustainable practices in tourism related to marketing, identifying the state of the art, trends and other indicators, by monitoring the articles published on the Web of Science (WoS) platform. A sample of 694 materials was obtained. The data were processed and the results graphically illustrated using the VOSviewer software. The study analyzed the simultaneous occurrence of publications by year, keyword trends, cocitations, bibliographic coupling and analysis of coauthorship, countries and institutions, and indicates that the literature on tourism sustainability issues in the field of tourism marketing is growing at a quick pace; merely five papers accounted for more than 2193 citations, but there are several prolific authors. Of the 694 sources included in the review, the most important ones published 40.34% of the papers; Spain is the leading country in this topic. This research provides insight about the state of the art and identifies gaps and research opportunities in sustainability and tourism marketing.

Objective: This study aims at analyzing the Brazilian scientific production of qualitative research in Marketing. Method: A thorough bibliometric review was conducted considering the A2 national journals of Administration in the decade from 2010 to 2019. The final analysis was carried out on a corpus of 82 empirical articles that adopted a qualitative research approach. Originality/Relevance: The analysis of the research corpus covered the fundamental criteria for conducting qualitative research: paradigmatic orientation, the place of theory, research method, types of data collection and analysis, and research quality criteria. Results: Given the analyzed aspects, the Brazilian marketing production based on qualitative research shows a significant difference between positivist and non-positivist orientations in terms of the adoption of data collection and analysis techniques, of research quality, and in the way how to use theory. Theoretical/methodological contributions: This duality indicates two different models for the use of qualitative research. Positivist orientation studies adopt a standard model, which emulates the logic of quantitative research. The non-positivist research, in turn, shows a more expansive and varied posture, as well as with greater care in terms of rigo

The purpose of this article is to identify research trends in branding and brand building focused on the elderly, considering the importance of knowledge of this consumer segment, based on the sociodemographic changes corresponding to the population structure in the world. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis was carried out using the Scopus database and developed with the R Core Team 2020 -Bibliometrix software, followed by a qualitative systematic review of the PRISMA type. The results show that there is a recent interest in research on the study of branding and related topics of consumer analysis of the elderly segment, although it still has a low level of scientific production. The findings identify as the most relevant topics those associated with brand equity, brand image, market orientation, relationship marketing strategies, market segmentation, and senior consumer behavior. Regarding brand image, the most characteristic aspects of the studies are related to age psychographics, cognitive processes, self-confidence and boldness. From the previous review, it is recognized the relevance of making greater research efforts to respond to the need for knowledge about the behavior of the older adult consumer, since there are few studies that allow identifying the influences, processes and behavioral patterns of this market segment in the world.