A West Philadelphia community action group has requested that a site at 42nd and Market Streets "be purchased by the University and sold to the community at a minimum fee" for use as an "architectural workshop." John Petitj president of the West Powelton Concerned Community Council (WPdCC), last week wrote a letter to President Meyerson asking for the workshop, which would be used in training l...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Few studies about compulsive buying consider the economic framing situation. This study is concerned with the impact of different economic environments - the crisis in Greece vs. the boom in Turkey - on compulsive buying tendencies of students, while taking the role of gender and available money into account. METHODS Compulsive buying was measured by a Greek and Turkish tr...

A hybrid-spatial interaction model (SIM) was presented in Heppenstall et al. (2005). Despite producing promising results, the model was limited by the assumption that consumers would only buy petrol from the wards that they lived in. Research undertaken by Ning and Haining (2003) showed that the majority of consumers purchased petrol on their way to work or on shopping trips. A network model is...

since 1980, green marketing movement has been widely regarded by organizations consumers. organizations- seeking social legitimacy produce environment friendly products, while try to influence environmental issues. hence, this paper tries to know sensitivity level of consumers to environment issues, rate of participation in social programs related to green marketing and the level of attention a...

Several approaches have been proposed for evaluating information in expected utility theory. Among the most popular approaches are the expected utility increase, the selling price and the buying price. While the expected utility increase and the selling price always agree in ranking information alternatives, Hazen and Sounderpandian [11] have demonstrated that the buying price may not always ag...

Extant research work in impulse buying focuses on the Western context. Based on the theory from environmental psychology, this paper analyzes the causal relations among stimuli, affect, and impulse buying in the Taiwanese retail context. The results reveal that shoppers perceive store-related attributes of merchandise and service quality as must-be, whereas they consider environment and price a...

The emergence of the field of organizational buying behavior in the mid-1960’s with the publication of Industrial Buying and Creative Marketing (1967) set the stage for a new paradigm of thinking about how business was conducted in markets other than those serving ultimate consumers. Whether it is “industrial marketing” or “business-to-business marketing” (B-to-B), organizational buying behavio...

Feedback effects from asset prices to firm cash flows have been empirically documented. This finding raises a question for asset pricing: How are asset prices determined if price affects fundamental value, which in turn affects price? In this environment, by buying assets that others are buying, investors ensure high future cash flows for the firm and subsequent high returns for themselves. Hen...