Consumers’ purchase decisions and employer image

Globalization Issues and Consumers’ Purchase Decisions for Food Products: Evidence from a Lab Experiment

When Do Online Consumers Purchase?: Based on Inter-Purchase Time

This study is motivated by the premise that online consumers can make a purchase at any time of day if they have even a tiny time slot along with Internet access. To identify the increased shopping time flexibility, we first characterize the patterns of online purchase timing in comparison to those in the offline market. The results show (1) the breakdown of purchase timing regularity and (2) t...

When Do Consumers Purchase Online?: Based on Inter-Purchase Time

This study is motivated by the premise that online consumers can make a purchase at any time of day if they have even a tiny time slot along with Internet access. To identify the increased shopping time flexibility, we first characterize the patterns of online purchase timing in comparison to those in the offline market. The results show (1) the breakdown of purchase timing regularity and (2) t...

How do consumers make durable goods purchase decisions ? Demand for college textbooks

This paper examines durable goods issues in the college textbook industry. College textbooks have frequently been cited as an example of a market in which firms attempt to “kill off” the secondary market for their products by introducing new editions. We examine new edition introduction behavior, showing that much of the college textbook industry is on a fairly reliable 3-year revision cycle. W...

Employer decisions and the seeds of backlash.