Background: Urban freight transport is essential for the functioning of cities. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the growth of e-commerce, creating new challenges for courier services. While consumer satisfaction has been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to courier drivers'...

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...

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...

This study investigates how the origin and language of public attention influence financial markets during geopolitical conflict, using Israel's experience during the 2023-2025 Gaza War as a case study. We use Google Trends data-in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, sourced both worldwide and...

Prediction of stock closing price plays a critical role in financial planning, risk management, and informed investment decision-making. In this study, we propose a novel model that synergistically amalgamates Bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) with three complementary attention techniques-Top-k Sparse,...