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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Consumers' preferences"”.
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Factors Affecting Consumers Preferences for Specialty Eggs in Canada
… trend has reflected the fact that current egg consumers are not only content about eggs as a staple, but also demand egg products with enhanced attributes, such as nutrition, health, animal welfare and food safety. A large body of literature has reported that consumers are willing to pay a …
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A Pathway to Financial Stability in Retirement? Annuities and Consumers Preferences
… we attempt to determine the nature and degree of consumers’ inhibitions to annuitization. We find potential answers under both the rational frame and what appear to be psychologically induced behavioral biases to what would otherwise be an unimpeded valuation of the product, the features that …
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Hispanic Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay for Grass-Fed Beef in Virginia
… of this dissertation is to determine Hispanic consumers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for grass-fed beef. Two hundred and thirty-one Hispanic consumers in four experiment sites in Virginia (Galax, Roanoke, Richmond, and Blacksburg) participated in an experimental economics …
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Social Networks in New Product Forecasts and Marketing
Consumers interact with each other and within their social networks. Influentials have an overproportional influence on other consumers’ preferences and choices, thus having relevant implications for product development, marketing planning and strategic marketing. An important question that …
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Consumer Willingness-to-pay for Concord Grape Juice Treated by High-pressure Processing and Pulsed Electric Field
… impacts in the state. However, change of consumers’ preferences, decreasing consumption of carbohydrate-rich juice, and increasing supply of Concord grape, all have led to price declines of concord grape juice products. New processing technologies including High-pressured Processing and …
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An Empirical Study of National vs. Local Pricing under Multimarket Competition
… rents by varying prices across markets to match consumers' preferences. This paper empirically demonstrates, however, that a firm may instead prefer a national pricing policy that fixes prices across geographic markets, foregoing the opportunity to customize prices. Under appropriate conditions, …
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Online independent film distribution : what is missing?
… more competitors are entering the market; consumers are demanding more diverse content and higher quality service; and cost of content acquisition keeps increasing. In addition, the independent film industry has a fragmented value chain, which makes it challenging for filmmakers to fund and …
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Understanding consumers' ornamental plant preferences for disease-free and water conservation labels
… choice modeling survey was utilized to estimate consumers' willingness to pay a premium for six ornamental plants with disease-free and/or water conservation certification labels. The results of the mixed logit models show consumers are willing to pay a premium for plants certified as …
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Developing and implementing global branding strategies for Kirin Group
… has brought global brands to the attention of consumers worldwide. Just as information connects consumers across geographical borders in seconds, globalization is a common stream among many industries, which leads consumers to consume locally but their purchasing decisions involve more global …
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Neighborhood Attributes Desired by Doylestown Homeowners
… are compared to give further insight to consumers' preferences. Results indicate that residents of neighborhoods with New Urban attributes prefer this neighborhood style to Conventional Suburban Development. Residents of Conventional Suburban Neighborhoods are divided on their preference …
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Consumer's preferences for goat meat in the United States : an application of choice-based conjoint analysis
… However, there has been limited research on consumers’ preferences for goat meat; therefore, a choice experiment was used to assess consumer preferences for goat meat and/or live goats. A national online survey was conducted from April 27, 2012 to May 4, 2012. Respondents were asked to …
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Development of an intelligent decision supporting home energy management system
… and increasing the awareness that will help consumers to efficiently manage their energy consumption. However the existing demand response (DR) mechanism reduces power consumption based on predetermined policies of load priority (direct load control and pricing techniques) during the peak …
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A Comparison of Consumers' Store Patronage Between South Korea and the United States: Suggestions for the Marketing Strategy of the South Korean Discount Stores
… the stores most attractive to South Korean consumers. The purpose of this study was to (a) compare the differences between South Korean and the U.S. consumers in demographics, shopping orientation, perception of the importance of store and product attributes, and store evaluation, …
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Processes and outcomes of co-design to improve physical health care with mental health consumers in primary care
… of a co-design project involving mental health consumers, families/carers/kin, primary care providers, and peer support workers. The co-design project, which aimed to improve mental health consumers’ physical health care in primary care settings, created and tested a Physical Health Conversation …
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An Assessment of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Attributes of Milk and Dairy Products with the 100% Canadian Milk Symbo
Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about their foods and more particularly, the origin of their foods and the ingredients they contain. In light of the demand for additional origin information, the 100% Canadian milk branding initiative was launched in 2009 as a means of informing …
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Three Essays on Consumer Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Economic Analysis of the Influence of Nutrition Information and Knowledge on Food Purchasing Behavior and the Impacts of Primary Care Givers Parenting on Childhood Obesity
… uses experimental economic techniques to explore consumers' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for nutritionally differentiated grass-fed beef. Our findings suggest that consumers' nutrition knowledge about the functions of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, CLA, and Omega 3 could positively affect their …
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A test of revealed preference theorems
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1970
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CONSUMER SATISFACTION WITH A NEW, HIGH CONTACT SERVICE: AN ASSESSMENT OF COMPETING MODELS IN A NEW CONTEXT.
This study tests two competing theories of consumer satisfaction within the context of a high contact service, the disconfirmation of expectations theory and the value-percent disparity theory. In addition, it examined the strength of these theories when a new construct dealing with role …
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Stakeholder Model Representing Consumer Preferences for Housing in Saudi Arabia
… to know what in the market is suitable for consumers, to categorise and analyse consumer preferences, and understand their changes in behaviour, looking at the differences in the demographics and the population segment in order to create a better home environment. However, solutions that are …
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