With the growing population of online shopping, people pay more attention to online consumer reviews which influence consumer purchasing decisions. Consumer reviews are increasingly available online for a wide rage of products and services. This paper studies the impact of online reviews on the consumer purchasing decisions towards management response from four dimensions of online reviews numb...

Tactile behavior is a basic communication form as well as an expression of interpersonal involvement. This articie presents three studies offering evidence for the positive role of casual interpersonal touch on consumer behavior. iVIore specifically, it provides initial support for the view that tactile stimulation in various consumer behavior situations enhances the positive feeling for and ev...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This review investigated the impact of consumer participation in recognition of patient deterioration and response through call activation in rapid response systems. BACKGROUND Nurses and doctors have taken the main role in recognition and response to patient deterioration through hospital rapid response systems. Yet patients and visitors (consumers) have appeared well pla...

In this paper we first consider a two consumer-one resource model with one of the consumer species exhibits intraspecific feeding interference but there is no interspecific competition between the two consumer species. We assume that one consumer species exhibits Holling II functional response while the other consumer species exhibits Beddington-DeAngelis functional response. Using dynamical sy...

This article seeks to determine the extent to which endogenous consumer-resource cycles can contribute to the coexistence of competing consumer species. It begins with a numerical analysis of a simple model proposed by Armstrong and McGehee. This model has a single resource and two consumers, one with a linear functional response and one with a saturating response. Coexistence of the two consum...

innovation has attracted considerable interest in recent years in improving competitive advantage for both profit and nonprofit organizations. service innovation offers the potential for substantially improving the performance, but performance gains are often obstructed by users’ unwillingness to accept and use available systems. this research aims to use the concept of reasoned action theory t...