Anti-commercial consumer rebellion: Conceptualisation and measurement

Technological addictions: Conceptualisation, measurement, etiology and treatment.

Nowadays, Internet and mobile phone use are widespread worldwide. Forty percent of the world population use the Internet, whereas six times more individuals are online today compared to the last decade (International Telecommunication Union, 2012, 2013). Advancements in digital technologies have resulted in various positive applications, including (but not limited to) promoting (mental) health,...

Online interaction readiness: conceptualisation and measurement

Relationship marketing suggests a need to better understand and more actively involve consumers in the marketing process. This is especially the case with the Internet channel, because of its unique capability for two-v\/ay communication compared with traditional mass media. Existing research, however, has paid limited attention to consumers' general tendency to engage in online interaction. Th...

Consumer Participation in Commercial Hospitality

Purpose of this paper This paper examines customers’ participation in the production of commercial hospitality. Drawing on a study of queer consumers (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals), the paper considers the ways in which frequently circulated understandings, or myths, shaped consumers’ actions. The case study is used to highlight previously under examined dimen...

Colonial Courts and Secured Credit: Early American Commercial Litigation and Shaysâ•Ž Rebellion

Rape and rebellion.

To cite: Smith L. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013, 39, 58–59. DEFINITION OF RAPE The Oxford Dictionary gives a definition of the word ‘rape’ as: “late Middle English (originally denoting violent seizure of property, later carrying off a woman by force): from Anglo-Norman French rap (noun), raper (verb), from Latin rapere ‘seize’ ”. This definition shows that rape ha...