Nowadays, green consumerism is a global trend in the era of 21st century, prompting businesses to become more environmentally conscious and build robust product range meet demands new customers. This tendency has been aided by social media, which influenced customers’ buying intentions be ecologically responsible. The current study investigates effects web-based media on motivation, i.e., egoti...

This paper compares the often-criticized "selling orientation" or "selling concept" with the commonly-praised "societal marketing concept "from the perspectives of consumer rationality and persuasibility. It is suggested that both orientations view consumers as relatively irrational and as easily prone to manipulation by marketers. The implications of this similarity are explored from the persp...

In the face of this burgeoning consumerism movement, hospitals interested in staying a step ahead of their competitors are scrambling to provide improved customer service, including providing estimates. But they're discovering that gathering all the necessary data for an estimate can be very time-consuming and cumbersome. Hospitals making the effort, however, find they are in much better positi...

In the course of his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics, Ian Kennedy discussed the consumer-provider model as the means by which the patient-physician relationship might be regulated, with the patient as consumer having a major role in establishing, monitoring, and enforcing standards of medical practice. Little, a psychiatrist, agrees that such consumer involvement would help to redress th...

Suggests that institutions of higher education in the USA encounter problems that are unique to the market environment. These problems include competition for resources, escalating costs, and resource constraints. In response to these problems, higher education systems within this kind of environment tend to borrow strategies from organizations operating under the most competitive environment –...

Modern society today relies on the ideology of consumption, not just a marker social status person or group but mechanism used by consumers to gain prestige buying consuming goods considered high customers. The increasing reach consumerism has expanded traditional definition "commodity" into an intangible service, especially in universities' operations. Surveys show that students tend act as un...