Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors determining which communication mediums influence a given consumer deciding to purchase a specific product. Design/methodology/approach – Using a consumer survey and a multivariate probit (MVP) model, the authors explore consumer...

Purpose – Attracted by tremendous market opportunities of mobile business, many web services providers have started to expand their web services from traditional PC-based environment into the mobile-based environment. However, success in the web services cannot guarantee the success in the...

Functional foods is a relatively new concept covering food products enriched with various kinds of (natural) substances (eg vitamins, minerals or probiotic cultures) or modified so as to provide consumers with an additional physiological benefit presumed to prevent disease or promote health,...

Indicators of trust, confidence, optimism or sentiment among consumers and/or investors, are published continuously in the mass media. More importantly, these indices seem not only to reflect how the state of the real economy is perceived by private agents, but can also help predict the future...

Consumers' beliefs in the benefits of reducing fat intakes, especially saturated fat, and of increasing calcium intake from such foods dairy products, depend upon the acquired information related to diet and health. This study develops new health information measures from different sources. The...

Applying method of Lagrange multipliers, an attempt has been made to derive mathematical formulation to workout optimal purchasing policy in order to maximize utility of an individual consumer subject to multiple constraints; in this particular illustration, two constraints: 1) budget...

Рассмотрены проблемы организации деятельности фирмы-посредника по продвижению прикладного программного обеспечения на рынке корпоративных продаж. Определен...

Статья посвящена проблеме управления поведением потребителей предприятий розничной торговли. Обоснована актуальность данной темы на этапе рыночных изменений...

Осуществлено исследование потребителей на рынке заведений питания студентов на основе метода кластерного анализа, являющегося многомерной статистической...

Many studies on household energy efficiency investments suggest that a wide range of seemingly profitable investments are not taken up. This paper provides novel evidence on the main factors behind consumer choices using the OECD Survey on Household Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes. The...