Two recently developed probabilistic multidimensional models for analyzing pairwise choice data are introduced, discussed in terms of their differential properties, and extended in several ways. The first one, the wandering vector model, was originally suggested by Carroll and extended by De...

We consider customer influences on market structure, arguing that market structure should explain the extent to which any given set of market offerings are substitutes or complements. We describe recent additions to the market structure analysis literature and identify promising directions for...

Purpose – The sports industry is one of the fastest growing business sectors in the world today and its primary source of revenue is derived from fans. Yet, little is known about fans' allocation of time, effort, and/or financial expenditures in regard to the sports they care so desperately...

The sports industry is one of the ten largest business sectors in the U.S., and its primary source of revenue is derived from sports fans. Yet, little has been published in the academic journals about fans' allocation of time, effort, and/or financial expenditures in regard to the sports they...

The sports industry is one of the 10 largest and fastest growing business sectors in the United States. The size of the industry in 2008 was estimated to be approximately $213 billion, more than twice the size of the U.S. auto industry and seven times the size of the movie industry.A sizable...

Canonical models of rational choice fail to account for many forms of motivated adaptive behaviors, specifically in domains such as food selections. To describe behavior in such emotion- and reward-laden scenarios, researchers have proposed dual-process models that posit competition between a...

Marketing research studies pertaining to market segmentation, competitive market structure, and product/service positioning often involve the collection of multiple batteries of measurements from the same set of respondents (e.g., preferences, attribute ratings, demographics, proximity...