Iran's apparel market is currently filled with foreign brands that are generally ranked as high quality goods with high prices. With a surface examination of the apparel market and customers’ opinions, it can be concluded that Iranian apparel, despite having lower prices, is not in a suitable status in comparison with its foreign counterparts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to ...

This study extends Web site customer orientation and salesperson customer orientation to C2C e-commerce marketing. According to customer orientation and customer value theory, the paper establishes the relationship model of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) Web site and seller customer orientation, customer value and behavioral intention. The researchers empirically examine the model employing structu...

Purpose Doing business in depleted contexts requires the adoption of an unconventional strategic orientation based on involvement local community and driven by attainment economic, environmental social goals. Previous studies have explored specific nature enterprises (CEs); notwithstanding, little attention has been paid to understanding posture adopted entrepreneurs overcome difficulties make ...

Workplace spirituality is a complex construct and perceived differently in different cultures contexts. The purpose of this study was to the meaning workplace from perceptions employees an Eastern context, particularly Nepal, which primarily dominated by Vedic Buddhist spiritual traditions. This utilized constructivist grounded theory methodology elucidate WPS. analysis data revealed that WPS m...

The origin of altruistic behavior, i.e. the behavior that is useful for a population or a species but goes at the expense of an altruistic individual, has long been a challenge for students of evolutionary biology. The populations with altruistic individuals thrive better than those without altruists; however, the altruists within a population thrive worse than the non-altruists and their preva...

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent findings suggest that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism maintaining cooperation among humans. We experimentally explore the boundaries of altruistic punishment to maintain cooperation by varying both the cost and the impa...

Formulation and specification of activity analysis models require better understanding of time allocation behavior that goes beyond the more recent within household analyses to understand selfish and altruistic behavior and how this relates to travel behavior. Using data from 1,471 persons in a recent 2-day time use/ activity diary and latent class cluster analysis we identify 11 distinct daily...