Coupons in the form of “promotion codes” are now a mainstay of the online shopping experience, but online coupon redemption differs substantively from that in traditional retailing. Generally, offline redemption of coupons is customer-initiated while Internet shoppers are usually prompted to enter a code towards the conclusion of the checkout process. Some controversy exists over the effect thi...

Regulatory focus theory (e.g., Higgins, 1997) presented a differentiation between promotion orientation, focused on growth and advancement, and prevention orientation, focused on safety and security. Cross-culture differences in these systems generally show that that collectivist, Eastern cultures (mostly East-Asian cultures) are considered as prevention oriented whereas Western cultures are co...

15 16 17 18 19 20 Corresponding author: 21 Caterina Mammina, M.D. 22 Department of Sciences for Health Promotion “G. D’Alessandro”, University 23 Via del Vespro 133 24 I-90127 Palermo, Italy 25 Phone number: +39 0916553623 26 Fax number +390916553641 27 Email: [email protected] 28 Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J....

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, 20–39 (2008) © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20305 1 COM (97) 131. Promotion of road safety in the European Union 1997–2001. 2 The direct economic cost of world road crashes has be...

Online auctions are rapidly becoming one of the significant forms of electronic commerce for buying and selling goods and services. A good understanding of the workload of auction sites should provide insights about their activities and help in improving the quality of the service provided to their users. This paper presents a site level and a user level workload characterization of a real onli...

“A moving target”: a critical race analysis of Latina/o faculty experiences, perspectives, and reflections on the tenure and promotion process Luis Urrieta Jr., Lina Méndez & Esmeralda Rodríguez a Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA b Center for Reducing Health Disparities, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA c Culture, Cur...

Past research suggests that factors related to health care professionals' (HCPs) knowledge, training and competency can contribute to the underutilisation of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care by refugee and migrant women. The aim of this study was to examine the perceived preparedness of HCPs in relation to their knowledge, confidence and training needs when it comes to consulting refug...

Current challenges to supermarket retailers posed by the growing popularity of online retail, customer desensitisation to advertising, and globalisation of large grocery retail firms, has led to an increased reliance on sales promotion as a means of attracting and retaining customers. Retailers recognise the need to make the shopping experience more rewarding for the consumer (Keh and Teo 2001)...

Tobacco smoking is one of the greatest causes of mortality in the world, responsible for over 5 million deaths per annum. The prevalence of smoking is over 1 billion people, with the majority coming from low or middle income countries. Yet, the incidence of smoking varies vastly between many countries. Some countries have been able to decline the smoking and tobacco related morbidity and mortal...

Coupons in the form of “promotion codes” are now a mainstay of the online shopping experience, but online coupon redemption differs substantively from that in traditional retailing. Generally, offline redemption of coupons is customer-initiated while Internet shoppers are usually prompted to enter a code towards the conclusion of the checkout process. Some controversy exists over the effect thi...