The main aim of this paper focuses on examining the effect of website quality, product assortment, customer reviews, and perceived service quality on customer happiness and word of mouth. The data for this research was gathered from online shoppers of retail stores in United Arab Emirates. Data...

Purpose: This paper aims to understand how aversion to interest income in Islam may influence the demand for real estate and gold when inflation is rampant. Design/methodology/approach: According to Markowitz’s mean-variance model, an optimal portfolio is one that blends maximum return with...

Circular economy is an alternative to traditional industrial system based on producing and consuming as much as possible. Contrary to produce and dispose model, circular economy emphasizes resource efficiency in both consumption and production cycle. This research aims to reveal potential role...

This article introduces the Hedonic Metric (HM) approach as an original method to model the demand for differentiated products. Using this approach, initially we create an n-dimensional hedonic space based on the characteristic information available to consumers. Next, we allocate products into...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve sustainable development for the service of all humanity. These 17 goals are adopted in 2015 by the member states to support many aspects of human development while addressing environmental issues. The SDGs rely on the partnerships of all...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the role of non-properly washed dishes in spreading a virus during pandemics. Specifically, we look at the Influenza virus pandemic that happened in the last century. We use the infection data of Lynch and Cumming (1919) where the authors compare the infection...

It is an indisputable fact that COVID-19 has changed so many aspects of our society. In this article, we investigate how COVID-19 impacted unemployment in Europe. This issue is also relevant to UN Sustainable Development Goals, which explicitly mentions eliminating poverty as an ultimate target....

This article aims to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and Amazon company, one of the most preferred online shopping companies. In doing this, we analyze the relationship between stock prices and sales. Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak on December 1, 2019, online shopping...