If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This research tries to fill a gap in research and to suggest a rigorous quantitative approach to benchmarking marketing productivity. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is useful in identifying the best-performing units to be benchmarked against as well as in providing actionable measures for improvement of a company's marketing performance. Design/methodology/approach -This study applied the DEA approach to aid traditional benchmarking activities and to provide guidance to managers, and to evaluate the productivity and efficiency of manufacturing firms listed at the Indonesian Stock Exchange as a result of their marketing activities. The time period observed is 2001-2007. The total number of manufacturing firms observed is 94. Findings -The evidence shows that on average, this industry experienced total productivity decline by over the observation periods, mainly due to deterioration of managerial efficiency. Originality/value -The paper compares public listed manufacturing firms in Indonesia.

This study attempts to analyze the effect of co-creation activities on satisfaction and its impact on loyalty, and to investigate the mediating role of co-creation value and trust, as well as the moderating role of personality traits and gender in higher education. This study took the sample from graduate students of master's degree in management program or Master of Business Administration (MBA). There were 18 universities from 10 cities in Indonesia involved in this study. The survey comprised of 590 responses from students. The essential finding in this study confirms the effect of student co-creation activities on satisfaction and its impact on loyalty. Co-creation value and trust are found to be a partial mediation on the relationship between the co-creation and satisfaction. Moreover, gender is the moderating factor of the relationship between co-creation activities and trust, yet personality trait is not as a moderating variable in the relationship. The findings imply that higher education needs to encourage co-creation activities and adapt the activities based on student gender.

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