This is the table of contents of the special issue on: “Bridging the Gap between Academic Research in Marketing and Practitioners’ Concerns” edited by Albert C. Bemmaor and Philip Hans Franses to appear in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (Wiley) as a single double-issue (180 page long): Vol. 21, Nos. 4/5, 2005. One can order individual copies of the special issue by sending a message to the following address: [log in to unmask] The papers will appear in full text in EBSCO data bank (Business Source Premier) six months after the date of publication (August or October 2005). . [1] “The Diffusion of Marketing Science in the Practitioners’ Community: Opening the Black Box“ By Albert C. Bemmaor and Philip Hans Franses [2] “Market Segmentation for Customer Satisfaction Studies via a New Latent Structure Multidimensional Scaling Model” By Jianan Wu and Wayne DeSarbo Comment By Donald Falkinburg Comment By Rinus Haaijer and Edward Rosbergen Comment By Philip Hendrix Rejoinder By Jianan Wu and Wayne DeSarbo [3] “Current Issues and a “Wish List” for Conjoint Analysis” By Eric Bradlow Comment By Jordan Louviere Comment By Jay Magidson and JeroenVermunt Comment By Bryan Orme Comment By Joffre Swait Rejoinder By Eric Bradlow [4] “ Spatial Models in Marketing Research and Practice” By Bart Bronnenberg Comment By Thomas Eagle Comment By Paul Markowitz Rejoinder By Bart Bronnenberg [5] “Advertising Response Models with Managerial Impact: An Agenda for the Future” By DemetriosVakratsas Comment By Tim Ambler Rejoinder By Demetrios Vakratsas [6] “The Implementation Challenge of Pricing Decision Support Systems for Retail Managers” By Alan Montgomery Comment By Suzanne Valentine and Krishna Venkatraman [7] “Retail Assortment, Shelf and Stock-out Management: Issues, Interplay and Future Challenges” By Katia Campo and Els Gijsbrechts Comment By Henk Gianotten Comment By Gilles Gros [8] “The Proper Interpretation of Sales Promotion Effects: Supplement Elasticities with Absolute Sales Effects” By Harald Van Heerde Comment By Eijte Foekens Comment By Tom Wilms Rejoinder By Harald Van Heerde [9] “Measuring Short- and Long-run Promotional Effectiveness on Scanner Data Using Persistence Modeling” By Marnik Dekimpe, Dominique Hanssens, Vincent Nijs, and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp Comment By Jean-Bernard Kazmierczak Rejoinder By Marnik Dekimpe, Dominique Hanssens, Vincent Nijs, and Jan- Benedict Steenkamp [10] “Market Response Models and Marketing Practice” By Dominique Hanssens, PeterLeeflang and Dick Wittink Comment By Douwe Rademaker Comment By Jorge Silva-Risso Rejoinder By Dominique Hanssens, Peter Leeflang and Dick Wittink [11] “Lessons From the Front Line: Two KeyWays in Which the Internet has Changed Marketing Forever” By Xavier Dreze . Comment By Daniel Kaye [12] “The Effect of Survey Measurement on Respondent Behavior” By Vicki Morwitz Comment By Herbert Sorensen [13] “The Value of Simple Models in New Product Forecasting and Customer Base Analysis” By Peter Fader and Bruce Hardie Comment By Mitchell Barns [14] Biographies [15] List of reviewers