Covid-19 has changed consumer behaviour, probably forever. Initial stockpiling led to stockouts, threat and uncertainty for consumers. To overcome shortages, consumers expanded their use of channels many started buying online the first time. In this paper, we aim address important research gaps related behaviour during pandemic especially stockpiling. Our paper starts by presenting findings our...

Research suggests that sustainability may not be sufficient to yield a competitive advantage. Building on the resource-based view, this research evaluates three questions: (1) Can using as differentiator lead consumers choosing sustainable products? (2) Does product appeal more environmentally concerned consumers? (3) when paired with innovation? To test hypotheses, an online survey of 344 US r...

Climate change is having a significant impact on the global grape and wine sector. We are seeing earlier more compressed vintages, extreme weather events, warming of temperatures. These all leading to management changes in both vineyard winery. Overlaying these physical mega-consumer trends that demanding sustainable production patterns. changing consumer attitudes many previously held beliefs....

consumer purchasing decisions relating to foreign products are influenced by economic, psychological and sociological factors. this study attempts to relate such rarely studied variables as animosity and ethnocentrism to concepts taken from consumer behavior which are brand image and purchase intention. consequently, this study attempts to provide insights into how brand image, consumer ethnoce...

Living organisms are constrained by both resource quantity and quality. Ecological stoichiometry offers important insights into how the elemental composition of resources affects their consumers. If resource quality decreases, consumers can respond by shifting their body stoichiometry, avoiding low-quality resources, or up-regulating feeding rates to maintain the supply of required elements whi...

Demand response plays a significant role in peak load shifting, storage capacity configuration and renewable energy utilization. A bi-level planning method for system of integrated community considering the demand is proposed this paper. In upper level, investment cost electrical thermal storage, operation maintenance fuel system, as well compensation to consumer, are considered; lower responde...

In the realm of counterinsurgency (COIN), the currency is intelligence. In other words— as the Counterinsurgency Field Manual succinctly puts it—intelligence drives operations. “Good” intelligence provides precision, helping the counterinsurgent eliminate insurgents from the populace “like surgeons cutting out cancerous tissue while keeping other vital organs intact.” Within this surgical effor...

Consumer behaviour at pure Internet players has been analysed thoroughly in earlier work. When it comes to retailers with multiple distribution channels, however, new behaviour patterns can be observed. Given the fact that multi-channel retailing is much more common than Internet-only, the analysis of consumer behaviour in a multi-channel context constitutes a challenge for the deeper understan...