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Consumers’ Perception and Behavior Towards Ecosanogene Products Made by Goat Milk
2014
Abstract This study was conducted in Sibiu, Romania to examine consumers ‘ratings of healthy products made by goat milk and health issues. It has been also examine the sociodemographic factors and the relations between food safety and human welfare. This study is based on a questionnaire, interviewing a target group consists of 105 people. The purpose of this poll was to understand the consumer needs and how the quality of the brand influences purchasing choice. The instrument used for data processing was ANOVA Regression. The results can reveal that the selected model is valid for respondents who ticked test positive, P-value = 1.31E-26 <0.05; for negative response (option “b), P-value …
Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systema…
2020
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Supplier switching decisions
2007
Abstract In order to maximize profit, a buying firm should continuously search for and access sources which offer more favorable prices. While the literature is replete with works on the formation and development of buyer–supplier relationships, there is surprisingly only scarce research on the termination of such relationships and supplier switching. Using the concept of switching costs in a principal-agent framework, we at first analyze whether a firm switches the entire or a partial quantity to an alternative supplier when there is either symmetric or asymmetric information about the alternative supplier’s cost structure. Information asymmetry results in inert supplier switching decision…
Dinamiche competitive dei principali prodotti ittici in Italia: possibili strategie di intervento
2011
Over the last few years, the Italian fishery sector has showed a tendential reduction in the economic performance because of the contraction of the value of the product, as a result of the fall in the catches and in the production average prices of the main species, and of the growing operational costs. Therefore, the contraction of the National supply is balanced by the imports which, in terms of value in the reference period tested in the current study (2003/04 – 2007/08) have grown, causing a further burdening in the absolute value of the Italian trade balance. The outlined background is made further worse by the slowdown, in few years, in the rise in the fishery products consumptions, d…
Purchasing Behaviour of Polish Consumers in the Internet
2017
In recent years we may observe the growing importance of the Internet in the lives of consumers. As the data from Central Statistical Office (GUS) shows, in 2015 approximately 75.8% of Polish households had access to the Internet. The value of e-commerce is estimated at PLN 27 billion. 54% of Internet users buy in Polish e-shops and 13% in foreign internet shops. The threat of violations of consumer rights, including cybercrime, is on the increase. This requires caution, the knowledge of legislative solutions and litigation methods of exerting consumers' rights on the part of customers. The article focuses on the purchasing behaviour of Internet users taking into account consumer rights and…
Ethnocentrism Effects on Consumers’ Behavior during COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has upset everyone’s normal daily activities, generating psychiatric disorders and changing consumers’ preferences. Among others, the agri-food sector has experienced strong changes and, during the lockdown period, Italian consumers modified their purchasing habits in response to the fear and uncertainty generated by the spread of the virus. In order to find out the main consequences of the shock suffered during the period and to understand which factors have affected purchasing choices, an online survey was conducted on 286 Italian consumers. The results show that ethnocentrism has been the factor that most has influenced consumers’ behavior during the lockdown period…
Survey data and Bayesian analysis: a cost-efficient way to estimate customer equity
2014
We present a Bayesian framework for estimating the customer lifetime value (CLV) and the customer equity (CE) based on the purchasing behavior deducible from the market surveys on customer purchasing behavior. The proposed framework systematically addresses the challenges faced when the future value of customers is estimated based on survey data. The scarcity of the survey data and the sampling variance are countered by utilizing the prior information and quantifying the uncertainty of the CE and CLV estimates by posterior distributions. Furthermore, information on the purchase behavior of the customers of competitors available in the survey data is integrated to the framework. The introduc…
Case study on exceptions
1995
Discusses exceptions in office work and the link between rules and exceptions in office information systems. After describing the nature of exceptions, examines their effect on rules. Provides a case study of a factory purchasing process, including unmatched invoices, costs, classification and strategic changes.
Statistical Analysis of the Indicators that have Influenced the Standard of Living in Romania During the Economic Crisis
2015
Abstract As all the countries in the world, Romania is going through a period of large and deep economic, financial and social changes. The negative effects of the economic crisis are well known: Increase of unemployment rate, sharp decrease of incomes because of the imposed political measures and decrease of purchasing power resulting in a decrease of the quality of life. The quality of life may be assessed based on several macroeconomic indicators, such as: GD per capita, population incomes or expenses, population consumption, indicators that are the foundation of the analyses that may help taking decisions regarding the social and economic policies aimed to the increase of the standard o…
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERTEMPORAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT IN OECD COUNTRIES A GROWTH SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
1997
This paper provides two new data sets for comparisons of real income in OECD countries. The first set provides adjusted real series for GDP and its components from 1960 to 1993 based on OECD 1990 purchasing power parities. The second set uses OECD PPP of different benchmark years, and interpolates these applying national price indices. Comparisons between both alternatives, Penn World Tahle Mark 5 (PWT 5) and its new version (PWT 5.6), in terms of economic growth and convergence, reveal some remarkable differences. Moreover, there are wider differences concerning the relative countries' position in GDP per capita ranking. Estimations of convergence equations based on OECD data yield a bette…