The term “yellow notes” has long been used to refer to the academician's trusty and unchanged tool for “effective” teaching. This article discusses how new technologies are changing both the marketing discipline and higher education. These changes are making the old “yellow notes” an...

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Der Markt für Fachbuchverlage befindet sich bereits seit einigen Jahren im Umbruch. Die zunehmendeKonzentration im Verlagswesen, konzernbedingte Renditevorgaben, Digitalisierungder Inhalte sowie die Schaffung neuer Vertriebswege sind nur einige der Stichworte, für die sichvollziehenden...

Psychological state alterations induced by substance-related physiological mechanisms affect consumer decision-making. We examine the influence of caffeine—the world's most popular psychostimulant—on the attraction effect. In three double-blinded experiments, we show that caffeine intake via...

There are broadly two dimensions on which researchers can evaluate their statistical models: explanatory power and predictive power. Using data on job satisfaction in ageing workforces, we empirically highlight the importance of distinguishing between these two dimensions clearly by showing that...

Picking one ‘winner’ model for researching a certain phenomenon while discarding the rest implies a confidence that may misrepresent the evidence. Multimodel inference allows researchers to more accurately represent their uncertainty about which model is ‘best’. But multimodel inference,...

Generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) is a technically well-established approach to component-based structural equation modeling that allows for specifying and examining the relationships between observed variables and components thereof. GSCA provides overall fit indexes for model...

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Problem der Modellselektion im Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS)-Ansatz. Dieser Ansatz, welcher der Methodengruppe der Mischverteilungsmodelle zuzuordnen ist, ermöglicht eine simultane Schätzung der Modellparameter bei gleichzeitiger...

As mixture regression models increasingly receive attention from both theory and practice, the question of selecting the correct number of segments gains urgency. A misspecification can lead to an under- or oversegmentation, thus resulting in flawed management decisions on customer targeting or...