New restaurants often do not manage to succeed within a reasonable amount of time. Exotic restaurants especially face the problem that price promotions may not attract new customers because prospective customers might associate very low prices for unfamiliar food with a high functional risk....

This paper discusses the formation of organizational knowledge of boundedly rational Economic agents and studies the necessity of hierarchical coordination of economic agents. We consider a firm that consists of a management and N subordinated shops....

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) is a participative pricing mechanism which is characterizedby the fact that consumers have maximum control over the price they pay. We discuss thebusiness relevance of PWYW and extend the findings of Kim et al. (2009) using latentclass regression. Two different classes...

...Den Anfang dieser Arbeit stehen theoretische betriebswirtschaftlichen Überlegungen zumUmweltmanagement sowie einige empirische Resultate. Darauf folgt ein kurzerLagebericht des Umweltschutzes in Österreich und Deutschland. Aufbauend auf den überdas Umweltmanagement gewonnenen...

Geographical Information Systems (GISs) are often used to assist marketing planners inidentifying suitable retail locations, regionally distributing advertising campaigns, or targetingdirect marketing activities. GIS–thematic maps facilitate the visual assessment of mapregions.A broad set of...

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) is a new participative pricing mechanism whereby consumershave maximum control over the price they pay. Previous research suggests that participativepricing increases consumers’ intent to purchase. Sellers using PWYW face the risk, however,that consumers exploit their...

tele.ring is a mobile phone organization selling contracts and cell phones in the Austrian market. Themarket situation in 2005 was highly competitive and dynamic resulting in relatively short tariff lifecycles. Excessively long lead times made tele.ring’s management feel dissatisfied with...