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A theory of organization: consumer-design-production-consumer
… to survive must keep a sensitive finger on the consumer’s pulse. The author has undertaken a detailed study designed to highlight the relationship between the manufacturers of wood utilization machinery and their consumer (which is the Southern Pine lumber industry) from the standpoint of both …
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Consumer Streaks
Because of technological developments, consumers can record and track their behaviors more easily than ever before. Consequently, consumers are now especially aware of their streaks (i.e., doing something three or more times in a row) and other patterns of behavior. In my dissertation, I explore …
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Consumer Evaluation of Innovativeness in High-Tech Consumer Durables
This study concerns consumer responses to new product offerings in the category of high-tech audio equipment. The research was carried out under a positivist paradigm; other paradigms are described and a critical analysis of the reasons for choosing a positivist approach are given.<br/><br/>Part of …
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Consumer emancipation : technology effects on consumer packaged-goods marketing
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry has existed for decades with a high household penetration. Individual firms started out as small family owned businesses and then gradually became more "industrialized" via acquisitions. Historically, a low capital cost of entry, as well as high geographic …
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Consumer Coping Strategies
This study examines how households cope with financial strain. Four coping strategies, which are derived from a household production model, are examined in depth. These strategies are: (1) income expansion (increased allocation of time to market work), (2) household production (substitution of home …
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Macroeconomic models of consumer demand for consumer packaged goods in Asia
CPGCo, a global manufacturer of consumer packaged goods, has had tremendous difficulty in producing accurate forecasts for its products in developing markets. The problem was especially apparent during the global economic crisis in 2008, which caused demand for its products to become highly …
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A Lexi-ontological Resource for Consumer Healthcare: The Italian Consumer Medical Vocabulary
In the era of Consumer Health Informatics, healthcare consumers and patients play an active role because they increasingly explore health related information sources on their own, and they become more responsible for their personal healthcare, trying to find information on the web, consulting …
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IHSS: Repackaging Consumer Information
… disabilities and aging individuals can receive consumer-directed care through the IHSS program. Despite the strong demand for the program, new consumers are still struggling to begin their service after enrollment.</p> <p>This study assisted San Francisco In Home Supportive Services Public …
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Essays in Consumer Finance
… explores issues regarding the design of consumer financial contracts and their implications for market structure and economic efficiency. These questions are important because, as the recent mortgage crisis suggests, the relationship between household financial decision making, the …
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Factors Influencing Consumer Innovators
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Consumer bankruptcy in Thailand
Very little is known about the 13,000 Thais who find themselves in the Thai bankruptcy system each year. This system not only affects the individuals who have a bankruptcy case filed against them, but it also affects the Thai economy more broadly. Annually, the Thai bankruptcy system handles debts …
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The Consumer of Humans
For decades, a dearth of scientific research, inadequate treatment and diagnostic tools have slowed progress in the fight to control tuberculosis globally. Scientists have developed important drugs, such as isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide, against the disease. But these drugs must be taken …
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The Influence of Consumer-Product Testing and Reporting Services on Consumer Buying Behavior
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Focusing on consumer-to-consumer trust in electronic commerce with age and gender factors
… importance of trust in building and maintaining consumer relationship in e-commerce environment is recognized in the Information Systems literature since prior researches show that general lack of trust in e-commerce is a significant factor in inhibiting online purchases. A key challenge for …
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Promoting the Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, and the Gendered Consumer in Depression-Era America
… accounted for increased importance placed on consumers and the articulation of consumer citizenship as female during the Great Depression. Once New Deal programs and legislation determined and legitimized the consumer citizen, the consumer citizen exercised influence though purchasing power. …
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The Effects of Consumer Loan Application Formats and Advertised Terms on Consumer Borrowing Decisions
<p>Consumers continue to demonstrate a willingness to accrue more debt. They are also more accepting of increased repayment risk via the acceptance of longer loan terms. Extant research on consumer borrowing consists primarily of experiments designed to assess consumer choices and understand how …
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How Promotions Effect Consumer Purchases
Rational choice theory provides a blueprint for predicting individual behavior under the assumption that objectives and decisions are rationally identified and executed. Under certain conditions, actions reveal preferences and the ability to observe these preferences allows for the possibility to …
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Response styles in consumer research
In researchers’ efforts to better understand consumers, questionnaires are an indispensable source of data. In consumer surveys the Likert item format, where respondents rate their agreement with specific statements, is very popular. However, responses to such items may be biased by response …
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HIERARCHICAL PREFERENCES AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
This study considers the problem of the consumer in light of work presented by classical economists who discussed consumption. Richer assumptions about the tasks of an individual consumer and technology of consumption activities are used to develop a static model of consumer behavior. This model is …
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