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The balancing act: How do moral norms and anticipated pride drive food waste/reduction behaviour?
2022
Food waste is a serious problem that impacts the environment and sustainability by increasing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. Food waste also represents a social challenge because it raises serious concerns about food security. While acknowledging that households waste a great deal of food because they lack a proper routine for reusing leftovers and purchase more food than required, few studies have extensively examined the drivers of leftover reuse and over-ordering. We address this gap using the stimulus-organism-response paradigm. Moral norms and anticipated pride are conceptualised as stimuli that impact the organismic state of intentions against food waste and response in the …
Innovation in retail: influence of ICT and its impact on customer satisfaction
2017
espanolEn la literatura se ha definido tradicionalmente el concepto “innovacion” como aspecto necesario para el desarrollo economico y competitivo de las empresas y/o industrias, considerando esta como un determinante primordial para la creacion de riqueza y crecimiento de las economias. Con este trabajo se pretende llevar a cabo una aproximacion al concepto “innovacion en el comercio minorista”, identificando su naturaleza y alcance, y definiendo vinculos con variables de larga tradicion en la investigacion en marketing como los beneficios y costes de la relacion, la satisfaccion percibida de los consumidores y la lealtad hacia el establecimiento. Se propone un modelo teorico que se invest…
Small and medium enterprises web page design: a qualitative study
2012
The present paper is based on the results of seven consumer focus groups developed in Spain. The results are interpreted using an ethnographic summary of each focus group (qualitative approach) and a systematic coding procedure (quantitative approach). The research pursued two major objectives. Firstly, to identify the key design variables for building a successful transactional small and medium enterprises (SME) website. Secondly, the transactional relevance of each key design variable was tested in order to establish priorities according to Spanish online buyers’ preferences. The findings indicate that a SME transactional website should have three main strong points: 1 it must be secure 2…
GRASP with path relinking for the orienteering problem
2014
In this paper, we address an optimization problem resulting from the combination of the well-known travelling salesman and knapsack problems. In particular, we target the orienteering problem, originated in the context of sport, which consists of maximizing the total score associated with the vertices visited in a path within the available time. The problem, also known as the selective travelling salesman problem, is NP-hard and can be formulated as an integer linear program. Since the 1980s, several solution methods for this problem have been developed and applied to a variety of fields, particularly in routing and tourism. We propose a heuristic method—based on the Greedy Randomized Adapt…
A conjoint analysis of customers' preferences for e-banking channels
2021
Internet has transformed the manner in which banks interact with the customers. The purpose of the paper is to measure customers' preferences towards different channel attributes namely: internet banking, mobile banking and payment portals at a composite level that reflect the relative importance of usage attributes, i.e., payment type, transaction size, motivation to use and rate of urgency. Conjoint analysis was applied to estimate utilities for these attributes and to determine the existence of consumer groups with similar preference profiles. Furthermore, our study shows that the most preferred combination of utilities are customers preference to use payment portal, for 'paying bills' o…
How risk influences the choice of governance mode in biopharmaceutical inter-firm relationships
2013
Abstract This paper proposes a new theoretical framework for assessing the influence of risk in shaping the governance form in biopharmaceutical inter-firm relationships. In particular, we propose a multidimensional operationalization of relational and performance risk and, by following Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Real Options (RO) theory constructs, we hypothesize a relation between the aforementioned risk components and the choice of governance form. Specifically, following TCE reasoning, we hypothesize that a high level of relational risk leads towards more hierarchical governance forms, while, following RO theory, we hypothesize that a high level of performance risk leads towar…
Identifying patterns in channel usage across the search, purchase and post-sales stages of shopping
2015
Different motivations explain channel choice for search, purchase and post-sales.Channel choice is affected by the product category: search/purchase goods.Product involvement is the most relevant variable explaining multichannel behavior.Cross-channel synergies as consumers use both channels at each shopping stage.Meaningful segments based on the choice of channel are identified and characterized. Consumers today are using various channels to complete their purchase process. As shoppers pursue different goals at each stage of the process, channel choice may be explained by different drivers for search, purchase and post-sales activities. Our research framework is based on an extension of th…
Strategic Variables that Influence Entry Mode Choice in Service Firms
2007
This work investigates how a firm's international strategy affects choice of entry mode in the service sector. The inherent complexity associated with studying a heterogeneous sector such as services requires researchers to investigate variables that go beyond those drawn from traditional empirical work on the manufacturing sector. The adoption of a broader theoretical perspective and the introduction of these new variables may well provide further evidence of the determinants of service firms’ entry mode choices. On the basis of 174 entry decisions of service firms, this study's results support the necessity of including additional strategic variables that specifically address this complex…
The internalisation of foreign distribution and production activities
2001
Abstract This paper, using a logit model applied to a sample of 323 Spanish companies with international activities, analyses the key factors in the creation of sales and production subsidiaries. A high degree of fit between the results and the established hypotheses can be observed. Many interesting findings related to the main streams of entry mode research (Transaction Cost Theory and the Uppsala Model) have been supported. The intangibility and tacit nature of the products/processes involved in the foreign venture have been directly associated to wholly owned sales and production subsidiaries. Moreover, modes of entry used by Spanish firms are adapted as an incremental, experiential lea…
When are international managers a cost effective solution? The rationale of transaction cost economics applied to staffing decisions in MNCs
2005
Abstract A common claim in the literature of expatriation is the one referring to the high costs of expatriation. In this paper, on the basis of transaction cost economics (TCE), we show how limited this approach is. In particular, we consider a set of costs that, although ignored in traditional expatriation literature, must be accounted for when a MNC is deciding on whether to recruit expatriates or local managers in its subsidiaries. These costs include selection, training, and performance evaluation costs. We also formulate a series of hypotheses around the situations in which the total costs of recruiting expatriates are lower than those generated by local managers. We then test these h…