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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Consumer information"”.
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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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Consumer information, product quality, and seller reputation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, February 1981.
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Essays on Consumer Information Acquisition in Marketing Channels
… employs game theoretical models to investigate consumer information acquisition. Its principal novelty is that I incorporate a richer supply structure with active retailers. This allows me to explore issues that are unique to the marketing channel. Essay 1: Prominent Retailer and Intra-brand …
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PRISM: a consumer information processing model for housewife decision-making
… from a qualitative study of a market for consumer nondurables to two other markets for consumer non-durables. The model was developed to explain the effect of public relations information on housewives 1 buying decisions. The results of two questionnaire surveys of fifty housewives each …
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Health information on the Internet : strategies for assessing consumer needs and improving consumer information retrieval
… increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. However, the search strategies consumers are using to obtain information are often unsuccessful. Since some patients are using the information they obtain to influence health decisions, it is increasingly important to identify …
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Voluntary Environmental Initiatives, Pollution Prevention and Product Quality: The Role of Strategic Competition, Consumer Information and Regulation
The empirical analysis shows that TQEM adoption and innovativeness differ in the extent to which they promote different types of P2. Additionally, TQEM adoption and innovativeness operate as substitutes in promoting raw material, process and product modification types of P2. Strong location-based …
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Comparative advertising between the conflicting priorities of fair competition, trademark holder's rights and consumer information under South African law compared to the European and German approach on this issue
… interests of trademark proprietors, advertisers, consumers and the public at large. The thesis examines the South African, the European and the German legal system implemented a legal balance and presents consequences, commonalities and differences. After starting with an historical overview on …
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Expert -Like Performance in Everyday Domains: The Effects of Thinking Styles and Problem Structure on Problem -Solving Performance
… and problem structure. Specifically, aspects of consumer information (i.e., information format, information diagnosticity, and analogy distance) will be examined as ways in which information can be concretized, which in turn, lead to more well-structured problems.
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Consumer satisfaction with food marketing services: the effects of in-store information and education programs
… the relationship between the provision of consumer information programs and satisfaction with food marketing services and to assess the benefits of a program as they affect both consumer satisfaction and retail food store profits. A conceptual model which proposed a positive relationship …
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National approaches to consumer protection in France and Germany, 1970-1990
… domestic product markets. France has treated consumers as citizens, granting them special political protections against product risk. Germany has treated consumers as producers, emphasizing consumer information as a means of combatting market failure. This policy divergence resulted from the …
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Homebound : has independent restaurant take-out created new ‘At-Home’ gastronomic experiences?
… explored dining experiences of homebound consumers in Ottawa, Canada and examined whether the COVID-19 pandemic allowed independent restaurant "take-out" to become a new dining experience among individuals. This qualitative study conducted 18 semi-structured in-depth interviews to identify …
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Optimal demand shaping strategies for dual-channel retailers in the face of evolving consumer behavior
… but also provided a platform that facilitated consumer-to-consumer information exchange on retailers and/or products. As a result, the purchasing decisions of today's consumers are often affected by the purchasing decisions of other consumers. In this dissertation, we adopt an interdisciplinary …
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An exploratory investigation of Web usage : consumer behavior, information search, and the effects on traditional media consumption
… Specifically, the study examined Web users' information search behavior; their motivations behind using the Web and their preferences for certain Web sites; as well as the effects of the Web on their consumption of traditional media. In order to investigate the above issues, the study draws …
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IL CONSUMATORE NELL’ECONOMIA DEL DEBITO. Sovraindebitamento, responsabilità e mercato del credito nell’ecosistema digitale
This doctoral thesis examines consumer over-indebtedness as a structural outcome of the contemporary debt-based economy, moving beyond a purely remedial and individualised understanding of the phenomenon. Starting from a historical and systematic reconstruction of civil insolvency and debt relief …
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Consumers' perceptions of the competitive tiers in six grocery markets
… this research was undertaken to - assess how consumers perceive the competitive structure of 6 packaged grocery markets and - identify how consumers' perceptions of market structure are influenced by marketing activity (external factors) and consumer characteristics (internal factors). Within …
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An analysis of the retail customer of CCA pressure treated lumber, timbers and plywood
… and product and service attribute importance. Consumer knowledge and awareness of pressure treated lumber products, in general, is very low. Only one-third of PRO's and 21% of DIY'ers could recall, unaided, at least one brand of treated lumber. Moreover, approximately one-third of all PRO and …
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Essays on Pricing and Promotional Strategies
… determine how many coupons to offer. Allowing consumers to change their tastes for the firms' products over time, we find that the optimal couponing strategy for the firms is to only distribute coupons to all of the customers who buy from them. The effects of intertemporally constant …
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Caregiver Support for Patients Diagnosed with Dementia
… due to a lack of high-quality and available information, education, and support services tailored to meet the unique needs of families caring for a dementia patient. Currently published approaches to providing caregivers with information are largely centered on a one-size-fits-all …
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