Determinants of Country-of-Origin Evaluations

Country-of-origin Effects on Product Evaluations

This article reviews the literature regarding the effect of country of origin on buyer evaluations of products. The issue is important for countries (especially resource-poor, developing countries) that need to increase manufactured exports and for firms that source products in countries different from where sold. Marketing inferences are drawn, and implications for future research are develope...

Determinants of Life Expectancy: A Cross- Country Analysis

This paper analyzes the effects of socio-economic factors on life expectancy. Using multiple regression analysis, the paper shows that there is a positive strong correlation between life expectancy as an independent variable and per capita income, health expenditures, literacy rate and daily calorie intake. Also, it shows that there is a negative strong correlation between life expectancy and n...

Determinants of Perceived Fairness of Performance Evaluations

Middle managers from three organizational samples responded to an open-ended questionnaire in which they described the determinants of particularly fair or unfair performance appraisals. By Qsort procedure, the responses were categorized and combined to yield seven distinct determinants of fairness in performance evaluations. Ratings of the perceived importance of these determinants were factor...

country- of- origin influence on customer purchase decision

country-of-origin (coo) is one of the most important external cues which influence on the customers purchase decision and has been topic of so many studies. for the same reason, the present article with taking into consideration one hundred forty two students of isfahan university as its statistical sample, first tried to measure the influence of coo on students’ purchase decisions among the sa...

Country-specific Determinants of Intra Industry Trade Types of Agricultural Sector in Selected Developing Countries