Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused serious disruption to food security in the world. Declining incomes, purchasing power, and food production and rising prices in the food supply and consumption chain have affected and increased the risk of food insecurity, the most important consequence of which is the worsening of world hunger and malnutrition. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

On the basis of a low probability insurance experiment with substantial money on the line, we demonstrate that concern is an important driver of willingness to pay (WTP) for insurance when there is ambiguity surrounding the estimate. Concern still plays an important role when probabilities are given precisely. This finding explains why some individuals pay too much and others little for insuran...

This research aims to enhance our knowledge of Internet purchase behavior by proposing a new model which draws from three disciplines: consumer behavior, decision analysis and IS. A research methodology has been designed to capture the dynamic process that Internet shoppers follow when they are engaged in a shopping experience and the influences of their interactions with the environment on the...

We study whether and how a firm can enhance social contagion by simply varying the message shared by customers with their friends. We focus on two key components of information contained in the messages – information about sender’s purchase status prior to referral, and information about the existence of referral rewards – and their impacts on the recipient’s purchase decision and further refer...

This paper studies the effects of psychological, individual, product strategy, and situational factors on the impulse purchase behavior of customers in all Refah stores located in Tehran. The paper uses Betty and Ferrell Model to set forward and to test 4 hypothesis. All four hypothesis were confirmed. The results indicated that the selected factors had impact on the impulse behavior of the con...

This paper studies the effects of psychological, individual, product strategy, and situational factors on the impulse purchase behavior of customers in all Refah stores located in Tehran. The paper uses Betty and Ferrell Model to set forward and to test 4 hypothesis. All four hypothesis were confirmed. The results indicated that the selected factors had impact on the impulse behavior of the con...

the present research is conducted to show that organizations can use wiki to attract customers' purchase intention inside the e-commerce context. considering the relation between wiki and ecommerce for crm, this research tries to explore the characteristics such as perceived risk, customer experience, knowledge sharing culture, trust and knowledge sharing in wiki tool impact on purchase in...