This paper examines the nature of partisan preferences on a range of issue scales. It compares preferences in a period of strong ideological focus, in the late eighties and early nineties, with preferences in 2000 and 2001 – a period of weak ideological focus. Where partisan preferences were formerly polarised, they are now more consensual. I argue that once positional issues now resemble valen...

Chicken eggs enriched with antioxidants are produced to provide functional foods that healthier consume, a premium price. The study was intended analyze customers’ assessment, buying behavior, and willingness pay the antioxidant (AO) chicken eggs. conducted in Malang Regency, closest location UMM Farm Business Unit. Primary data were obtained from interviews customers of AO conventional analyze...

We investigate the implications of social learning on a monopolist firm’s pricing and inventory decisions. In our model, customers who purchase the product early in the selling season report their ex-post opinions of product quality through buyer reviews, while customers remaining in the market observe these reviews before making purchasing decisions. Because customers are heterogeneous in thei...

We look at one of the informational novelties introduced by the existence of internet market, namely "the recommender systems". A recommender system is a system employed by some internet sellers, which collects data from all previous customers about their experiences and makes inferences from this data to recommend a product to an active customer. The recommender system can also be interpreted ...

Channel management is one of CRM systems component much influenced by the behaviour of customers in relation to its implementation and use. The consumers’ behaviours, preferences, perceptions and expectations are crucial for the implementation and use of channel management. Customers’ contacts with the organization’s multi-channels can occur at several touch points throughout the customer lifec...

IPTV service providers are starting to realize the significant value of recommender services in attracting and satisfying customers as they offer added values e.g. by delivering suitable personalized contents according to customers personal interests in a seamless way, increase content sales and gain competitive advantage over other competitors. However the current implementations of recommende...

In order to configure individual products according to their own preferences, customers are required to know what they want. While most research simply assumes that consumers have sufficient preference insight to do so, a number of psychologically oriented scholars have recently voiced serious concerns about this assumption. They argue that decades of consumer behavior research have shown that ...

In the past, organisations could concentrate on their internal capabilities, emphasising product performance and technology innovation. Organisations that did not understand their customers’ needs eventually found that competitors could make inroads by offering products or services better aligned to their customers’ preferences. Many Facilities Management organisations today have a mission focu...