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Managerial framework organizes evidence on marketing's impact on consumer well-being and value creation.
The authors offer a systems-level, managerial and strategic framework that organizes cross-disciplinary evidence on how marketing has harmed consumers, and most importantly to offer thoughts on how marketing might instead make well-being a central component of value creation.
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