Author: Jacob Hornik ABSTRACT Shopping is a major household activity that consumes time and other resources. This paper represents an attempt to construct a unified model of shopping activity by drawing on the households’ production approach. A formal treatment is … Continue reading
Authors: Lishan Su, Sekar Raju, Russell N. Laczniak ABSTRACT When service providers make an effort to recover from service failures, customers may respond more favorably at certain times as compared to other times. This article attempts to explain psychological mechanisms … Continue reading
Authors: Jianguo Che, Sai Zhao, Yongfan Li, Kai Li ABSTRACT As a low-cost marketing model, telemarketing has always been the most important channel for banks to promote wealth management products. Traditional telemarketing has not only brought intrusiveness to many telephone … Continue reading
Author: Chaohua Ma ABSTRACT The vigorous development of China’s economy and the rapid growth of foreign trade are inseparable from the huge energy consumption. In this paper, the decomposition analysis method is used to decompose the energy consumption growth of … Continue reading
Author: Liqing Lin ABSTRACT Based on the review of the relevant theory and empirical research of listed tourism companies’ voluntary information disclosure and performance. This paper selects 11 thematic tourism listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange as the … Continue reading
Authors: Duanyang Ren, Wei Song, Zhangzhi Ge ABSTRACT Agriculture is the basic industry of our country, which plays an important role in the food security and social stability of China. As the implementation of China’s strategy of innovation-driven development, the … Continue reading
Author: Bruno G. Rüttimann1, Martin T. Stöckli2 ABSTRACT Although Lean manufacturing techniques are not yet in place in every shop floor production, the so-called Smart Factory with the very promising German-coined label “Industry 4.0” is already making its tour. While … Continue reading
Author(s): Kiran Shehzadi, Muhammad Ahmad-ur-Rehman, Anam Mehmood Cheema, Alishba Ahkam ABSTRACT The prime purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and compulsive buying behavior with mediating role of impulsive buying. By using quantitative research approach, … Continue reading
Author(s)： Renping Zhang, Junrong Liu ABSTRACT Through factor analyses, the paper makes a performance evaluation on the listed companies in furniture industry, finds out the representative companies and then analyzes their business strategies and ways to improve their core competence, … Continue reading
Author(s): Guangshu Xu, Zilong Song ABSTRACT The deployment of grain and oil is related to the daily needs of people and the stability of society. In this paper, we take the shortest path problem and the minimum cost maximum flow … Continue reading