Negative information about companies can have a harmful effect on consumer perceptions. However, few studies investigate how consumers process negative publicity and how companies should react to it. In order to examine this question, two experiments were carried out: first, a laboratory experiment which tests how consumers process two different types of negative publicity (product attributes o...

Image taxonomy and repossession plays a major role in dealing with large multimedia data on the Internet. Social networks, image sharing websites and mobile application require categorizing multimedia items for more efficient search and storage. Therefore, image classification and retrieval methods gained a great importance for researchers and companies. Image classification can be performed in...

Mining the petabyte and growing archive of remotely sensed images to obtain the necessary information for land cover change studies becomes more difficult as more imagery is obtained and stored at various locations by government agencies or private companies. The increasing importance of networking with the requirement to move data sets between different servers and clients makes the data volum...

Recent work on the internationalisation of retailing has focused on a number of themes such as the motives for internationalisation, the geographical flows of investment, the impact of internationalisation upon host environments, and methods and typologies of investment. Less attention has been paid to the process of internationalisation per se. This paper argues that for many retailers, compet...