Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how consumers’ value evaluation and personality factors influence consumers’ intention to adopt mobile coupon (M-coupon) applications in China. The moderating effect of gender on the relationships between personality factors and consumers’ adoption intention is also tested. Design/methodology/approach – This study conducted a survey to collect d...

OBJECTIVE Consumers are living longer, creating more pressure on the health system and increasing their requirement for self-care of chronic conditions. Despite rapidly-increasing numbers of mobile health applications ('apps') for consumers' self-care, there is a paucity of research into consumer engagement with electronic self-monitoring. This paper presents a qualitative exploration of how he...

The introduction of products based on emerging technologies are often contested, and even the preceding research and development stage of such products have raised discussions and invoked actions, as when field trials of GM crops were destroyed. For nanotechnology, the uncertainty about health and environmental risks is widely recognized, and different responses, up to a moratorium on products ...

A number of mechanisms have been proposed to explain the coexistence of species engaging in exploitative competition. The Armstrong-McGehee mechanism relies on different levels of nonlinearity in functional response between competing consumers and their ability to avoid competitive exclusion through temporal resource partitioning during endogenously generated fluctuations. While previous studie...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of services offered by health service providers, according to the perception of consumers. METHODS A cross-sectional study with 360 consumers from seven health service providers in the metropolitan area of Curitiba, PR, in 2008, was performed. An individual questionnaire measuring the consumers' preferences in relation to six attributes (location of service poi...

P roduct customization uses a flexible production system to deliver a product to order that matches the needs of an individual customer or user. User design is a particular form of product customization that allows the user to specify the properties of that product. Consider these examples. ▪ At Nikeid.com, consumers can design an athletic or casual shoe to their specifications on line, selecti...

Community pharmacies in Japan have long been advocated as effective sources of nonprescription medicines and health-related advice. Consumers sometimes self-treat symptoms of minor illnesses without consulting a pharmacist because the benefits of such consultations are not adequately recognized. The aim of this study was to investigate the use and impact of pharmacist consultations before purch...

• Focus on CSR support among the millennial consumer group. Holistic approach to based triple bottom line principle. Quantitative, survey-based using PLS-SEM. Data collected in advanced European market of Austria and emerging Asian China. Significant country differences generation Y consumers. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received increased attention academia business practice give...

Throughout the customer journey, employee-customer interaction drives responses. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced shopping behavior with face masks playing a major role. This research investigates how consumer changed and frontline employee (FLE) non-verbal (emotional facial expressions) verbal cues (verbal expertise) influence responses dependent on whether FLEs wear mask or n...

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as casestudies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant relations of production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in w...