We empirically study the perception of political uncertainty by UK's stock markets, covering the entire Brexit period from January 2013 to March 2020. We find that indices dominated by the largest capitalized companies anticipate negatively perceived events already prior to the actual event,...

This paper aims to analyse consumers' perceptions and attitudes towards natural cosmetic products from three Central European countries. In this study, we employed quantitative surveys on samples of 230 Czech, 175 Slovak, and 325 Polish respondents. Based on the obtained data, we investigate...

While the traditional components of employer brand equity are applied in the context of an organization's employees, this study sought to assess a hitherto unexplored context - the extent to which employer brand equity impacts on consumers of an organization's service brand rather than the...

In this paper, we present a new indicator to measure the media coverage of inflation. Our Inflation Perception Indicator (IPI) for Germany is based on a corpus of three million articles published by broadsheet newspapers between January 2001 and November 2022. It is designed to detect thematic...

Purpose of the article: To explore Genneration Z's and millennials' perceptions of masculinity in advertising and determine which type of masculinity and which masculinity characteristics consumers favour in a masculine character or the advertising message centred around masculinity. This can...

This paper examines the puzzle of why economic inequality has not resulted in political countermeasures to mitigate it, and proposes that the reason is due to misperceptions of economic inequality caused by segregation in social networks. We model taxation and voting behavior with an exponential...

The research aims to identify individual value-creation indicators, which are provided to suppliers, and their significance in building and maintaining sustainable, long-lasting mutual relationships between enterprises and their suppliers. The enterprises (in the position of suppliers) assigned...

Purpose - The aim of the paper is to determine the perception of extended warranty when communicated by retailer during the sales promotion of durable products (e.g. refrigerators). We consider perception as five signals or conceptual dimensions in retail context. The research question is: What...

The study aimed to analyze the perceptions of FinTech in the Middle East region, specifically its usage, and performance. To attain this objective, a strategy employed on surveys as the primary data acquisition method was implemented. The survey was conducted between November 2021 and February...

In the article, the authors attempts to demonstrate that healthy nutrition is the solution to not only individuals’, but also of the wide society’s problems, as, in their opinion, human health directly depends on healthy nutrition. Only healthy individual is able to perform his/her...

In the article, the authors attempts to demonstrate that healthy nutrition is the solution to not only individuals’, but also of the wide society’s problems, as, in their opinion, human health directly depends on healthy nutrition. Only healthy individual is able to perform his/her...

Agroecology is gaining traction as a possible strategy for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of food systems, prompting increased support from some governments, donors, development organizations and civil society. However, the scope, design and impact of agroecology-related projects in...

Purpose - This paper aims to develop and validate a comprehensive scale for measuring consumer perceptions towards social commerce (S-Commerce). With the growing prominence of social media platforms in electronic commerce (e-commerce), understanding consumer perceptions and attitudes is...

Information is incorporated into stock prices when investors trade; consequently, prices respond only to the information investors pay attention to. Because market efficiency requires rapid information dissemination and fully informative prices, attention necessarily affects the level of market...

Objective of this research is to find out the relationship between customers' perceptions of an organization's privacy information practices and their information-sharing intention in the context of omnichannel retailing. The study aimed to address the gap in research regarding privacy concerns...

Agroecology is gaining traction as a possible strategy for enhancing the sustainability and resilience of food systems, prompting increased support from some governments, donors, development organizations and civil society. However, the scope, design and impact of agroecology-related projects in...

In the situation of changing environment in higher education demands in Central Europe and worldwide with requirements for different types of delivery, it is necessary manage focus on quality of in all possible variants of teaching-learning process. This paper brings case study of Czech business...

We investigate whether having a daughter in a patriarchal society gives fathers a reason to reject prevailing social norms favouring gender discrimination against women. In particular, we develop a utility (rather than behavioural) model to frame the problem and derive hypotheses that can be...

Mental models help people navigate complex environments. This paper studies how people deal with model uncertainty. In an experiment, participants estimate a company's value, facing uncertainty about which one of two models correctly determines its true value. Using a between-subjects design, we...

By comparing the Bundesbank's BOP-HH and the ECB's CES-ECB household panel surveys focusing on inflation perceptions and expectations with omnibus surveys conducted in Germany in December 2021 and 2022, this paper examines potential sample selection bias stemming from (i) individuals'...

Das vorliegende Policy Paper befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Wahrnehmungen politischer Selbstwirksamkeit und ökonomischer Ungleichheit. Die aktuellen Daten des Konstanzer Ungleichheitsbarometers zeigen, dass viele Menschen ihre Einflussmöglichkeiten auf die Politik und auch die...

The study addresses the recovery from service failures in online banking. It focuses on the three dimensions of perceived recovery justice - namely, distributive justice (DJ), procedural justice (PJ), and interactional justice (IJ) - and investigates their impact on post-recovery satisfaction...

This study highlights the critical role of consumer behaviour in advancing the UK's transition to a Circular Chemical Economy (CCE), a sector heavily reliant on fossil fuels and a major contributor to CO2 emissions. While most existing studies focus on the technological and economic viability of...

This study investigates how the presence, and subsequent repeal, of a tax incentive for a prosocial behavior influences fairness perceptions and tax compliance for those who are and are not eligible for the incentive. Results of a multi-round experiment with 309 U.S. taxpayers show that...