Interestingly, academics believe that marketing science had the biggest impact on promotion management among all decision areas (mean = 3.76), while managers consider that it had the smallest influence among all areas (mean = 3.14). For other areas, such as new product/service management, both seem to agree much more as to the relatively large extent to which marketing science has impacted such decisions (means = 3.70 and 3.66 respectively for academics and managers). Overall, Table 3 shows that while there is consensus between the academic and intermediary groups (ρAI = 0.62) and some moderate level of consensus between the intermediary and manager groups (ρIM = 0.39), there is much disagreement between academics and managers (ρAM = 0.17), pointing to the bridging role of marketing intermediaries.