A summary of research on policy issues affecting persons with developmental disabilities. Published by the Research and Training Center on Community Living, Institute on Community Integration (UCEDD), University of Minnesota. This Policy Research Brief summarizes the results of a national study on the status of consumer-directed services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabiliti...

The track entitled "Consumer Informatics Supporting Patients as Co-Producers of Quality" at the AMIA Spring 2000 Congress was devoted to examining the new field of consumer health informatics. This area is developing rapidly, as worldwide changes are occurring in the organization and delivery of health care and in the traditional roles of patient and provider. This paper describes the key theme...

Genetically modified (GM) technology in food production continued to generate controversies. Consumers were concerned with the GM foods about the healthy and environmental risks. While consumers’ acceptance was a critical factor affecting how widely this technology be used. According to the research review, consumers’ lack of information was one of the reasons to explain consumers’ low acceptan...

This study uses a content analysis method to systematically review 83 research papers from 2002-2018 explore consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce trends. The findings of this indicate that (1) C2C is discussed and investigated in many disciplines, but mainly published journals; (2) studies on increasingly focus diverse topics, concentrate regions such as China the United States; (3) academic c...

Getting consumers to disclose their personal information is an essential first step for Internet businesses that choose to pursue a niche marketing strategy. Previous research has examined how the reward preferences and privacy concerns of consumers may affect their disclosure tendency. However, it is not known how key characteristics pertaining to Internet businesses, such as consumer trust, m...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the determinants of e-consumer productivity on a virtual store. This study drew on research dealing with consumer productivity, information retrieving and website design. A 2x2x2 online experiment with a sample of 350 participants was conducted. Results showed that e-consumer productivity depended on individual characteristics (e.g., Internet experie...

Cases 1, 2, and 3 can be represented and solved using a single general formulation. Let α and β denote the proportion of those consumers who are willing to share personal information with firm A and B, respectively. There are different values for α (β), depending on firm A’s (firm B’s) protection choice; α = β = u in case (Case 1); α = u + v and β = u in case ...