Food purchase decisions are characterized by habitual purchase behavior and low consumer involvement. The main aim of food marketing is to influence food consumers, for example, through advertising. In order to illustrate the interaction between consumers and marketers, Friestad and Wright...

The aim of this study is to analyze the interaction between capital structure decisions and risk management decisions as well as the channels through which they add value to firms. Competing theories are considered in an integrated path model, which we test by means of meta-analytic structural...

As observed in many countries, mobile banking can revolutionize the practice of payment transactions. This is especially true for developing countries, where mobile banking has the potential to open non-cash banking services to the unbanked. However, unlike in countries like Kenya and Ghana, in...

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) mainly focuses on manufacturing technology and processes that comprise a cyber-physical system (CPS), Internet of things (IOT), Industrial Internet of things (IIOT), Cognitive Computing and Artificial intelligence as innovation towards the computerization and exchange of...

We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is exactly or asymptotically unbiased under some base model. The researcher also reports descriptive statistics...

The paper aims to analyse effectiveness of earnings management control mechanism in controlling earnings management activities in India. Specifically, effectiveness of corporate governance, external auditing and accounting standards in controlling earnings management practices are analysed....

This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on the basis of their ability to answer well-posed economic problems with minimal assumptions. A key...

Although several studies point to the emerging importance of technology in consumer habits, limited studies have quantitatively shown how these variables influence consumer intention. Given this gap, this study offers an analytical model based on technology readiness, collaborative consumption...