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...

Over the generations, the popularity of the Austrian School’s approach to economics has risen, fallen, and risen again. Figure 1 represents a speculative guess at the “market share” of Austrian ideas among academic economists, where “Austrian” is broadly defined as individuals who believe in, or are at least highly sympathetic to, most of the core doctrine emanating from the Austrian School fou...

As retail competition accelerates, energy service companies (ESCOs) are confronting major structural changes in the “energy services” industry and a business environment in which many large customers are re-thinking their energy-related purchasing practices. This paper analyzes recent trends in the ESCO industry and looks specifically at how traditional performance contracting firms are faring ...

Market share and quality, or customer satisfaction, go hand in hand. Yet it is hard to find in the literature a clear formal statement to the effect that higher market share indicates higher quality. Indeed, such an inference would need detailed information about customer behavior. Moreover, even when that data is available, the validity of the inference is cast in doubt by common modes of beha...

This paper suggests an integrated mathematical framework developed based on the leader–followers game for augmentation of transmission networks. Transmission Network Service Provider moves first and designs the horizon year transmission system. Generating Companies compete for having the highest share from the energy market and they find their equilibrium point using the Nash equilibrium concep...

The Thailand Tobacco Monopoly (TTM) controlled the country's tobacco industry from its formation in the 1940s, until the government dropped restrictions on imported cigarettes in the late 1980s in response to pressure from the United States. The TTM has since competed with transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) in a semi-monopoly market in which TTCs have steadily increased their market share. ...

in this research the activity of 75 producers, 55 wholesalers and 55 retailers, citrus market of jahrom county was investigated. the results indicated that margin of wholesale, retail and total margin of citrus in this county was 1461.1, 1480.3, and 2941.4 rs respectively. share of producer from marginal price was estimated to be 57.9 percent and share of wholesaler was more than retailer. in t...