Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate materialistic consumers' apparel purchase, compulsive buying, environmental attitudes, and post-purchase behaviors regarding hoarding, disposing, and participation in recycling. Design/methodology/approach – Clothing is used to express...

Purpose – This paper aims to illustrate the concept of “consumer nationalism” and its implications for corporate reputation management in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses three incidents involving companies from different countries of origin as cases in point to...

Purpose – Little is known about the information‐seeking behavior of practicing visual artists; what research exists has focused largely on art students, art faculty and librarians, although an untested model does emerge. The aim of this paper is to report the findings of an empirical study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present some of the results of the project “Evaluating the usage and impact of e‐journals in the UK”. The particular research reported here evaluated the use of the ScienceDirect journals database with regard to Life Sciences, Economics,...

Purpose – Social library systems are Web 2.0 sites where users discover interesting books, movies, and music, etc., collect these resources to their personal libraries, and share their collections with others. The purpose of this study is to identify the information seeking modes adopted by...

This study aims at identifying the most critical factors affecting the customer switching behavior for mobile service providers in Jordan. A number of 580 questionnaires distributed to a random sample of Jordanian mobile users. The questionnaire contains 33 items measured on a five‐point...

Globalization and the ubiquitous nature of the Internet facilitate e‐commerce activities across nations. An empirical study was conducted using data from Greek and US consumers in order to obtain a better understanding of cross‐cultural e‐commerce adoption. The results give support for the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate public online consumer complaint responses from three different perspectives: the complainer, the company and third party consumers. Consumer complaint behaviour and management has been studied in various streams of literature, yet the...

Purpose – In Italy three quarters of the stock of households' mortgage debt is exposed to interest rate risk. The aim of this paper is to explain why the majority of mortgage holders in the Italian residential mortgage market have chosen a mortgage with a variable interest rate....