Aim: The aim of this study is to highlight the role of individual social capital as a personal marketing asset with specific weight in the job search process. The marketing mix instruments are transferred to the analysis of the individual. In this approach, the social network and the attributes...

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

Predatory pricing doctrine is currently a dead area of the law. To proceed beyond summary judgment, a plaintiff must prove the predation created a “dangerous probability” of supracompetitive pricing as the mechanism for recouping the losses “invested” in the predation. This requires...

Since the advent of the discounted utility (DU) model economists have thought about intertemporal choice in very specific terms. DU assumes that people make explicit tradeoffs between costs and benefits occurring at different points in time. While this explicit tradeoff perspective is simple and...

Many purchase and consumption choices are shaped by clear-cut constraints, either budgetary or temporal. You buy a house, for example, after considering your income, life expectancy, and the size of the mortgage you can obtain. But what about the constraints in smaller but repeated purchase and...

In the nineties the disconnection between physical experience and the digital networked experience was celebrated - individuals were said to move into cyberspace, become virtual and leave the constraints of the physical realm. Despite the very real existence of tracking and surveillance...

This article, prepared for the forthcoming third edition of The Handbook of Emotion, surveys behavioral economic and neuroeconomic research on the influence of expected and immediate emotions on decision making under risk, intertemporal choice, and social preferences

Prior research has consistently demonstrated that people are reluctant to trade a good they own for an alternative good, particularly when the alternative (or “target”) represents a substantial departure from the “endowment.” We demonstrate that the endowment effect can be reduced by...

Until recently, sustainability has been the key focus of an organization's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) department. But as the worldwide population struggles with the issues of increasing pollution, over population, depleting resources, increasing energy demands, loss of bio-diversity,...

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...