The implementation of Medicare Part D illustrates some of the foibles of maximizing the number of choice options in an effort to empower consumers. Findings from research on bounded rationality suggest that people frequently make choices on the basis of decision heuristics that cause them to: (a) ignore relevant information about uncertain prospects, (b) use information in ways that systematica...

This project is about a form of corporate predation that entails both policy influence and cultural legitimation. Neoliberal explanations of the inability of citizens to thrive in the current socioeconomic condition typically rest on a combination of victim-blaming and appeals to the individualistic rhetoric that assumes we all enjoy equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. It is common f...

BACKGROUND Front of pack food labels or signpost labels are currently widely discussed as means to help consumers to make informed food choices. It is hoped that more informed food choices will result in an overall healthier diet. There is only limited evidence, as to which format of a food label is best understood by consumers, helps them best to differentiate between more or less healthy food...

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...

Current theory in tourism marketing lacks understanding of how businesses signal trust to consumers make destination-based choices. The present research investigates the role E-WOM, destination image, familiarity, and (as mediator) choice from signaling perspective. suggests that there is asymmetric information between receiver sender which can be resolved by communicating various positive sign...

Laypersons ("consumers") often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) would reflect the different ways consumers express and think about health topics, helping to bridge this vocabulary gap. However, despite the recent research on mismatches between consumer and professional lan...

The causes and ramifications of the rise in the consumer debt burden over time have been subject to much debate. This paper first offers a brief overview and analysis of the key economic variables used to evaluate consumer debt levels. The principal focus of the paper, however, is a broad review of the literature on the topic of consumer debt to provide a framework for how to assess recent cred...