Standardizing performance expectations across different outlets within a chain, differing in their individual features, their consumers, and the nature of competition they face, can be an onerous task. We develop an integrated, nonlinear, block group-level market share model of store...

One of the major problems faced by the management at supermarket chains is the determination of a fair and equitable assessment of individual store performance keeping in mind the variation in store features, competitive environment, and socio-demographic characteristics of the consumers facing...

The small sample properties of the multinominal runs test, which is often used to test for effects of previous brand choices on current brand choice probabilities, are explored in this study through a Monte Carlo study of different buyer-level brand choice probability models. The power and the...

This research marries scanner panel choice data of consumers in single member households to their survey-based perception data and draws upon behavioral and modeling research to contribute to the variety seeking literature. It presents a new consumer-based measure of choice variety based on...