Consumer purchasing behavior of luxury goods in physical store is affected by various factors. There also exist factors that influence purchasing via online shopping. Through integrated analysis of these two kinds of factors, we can find factors that influence purchasing of luxury goods via online shopping. Questionnaire survey and quantitative analysis are needed measures in the research.

Health care systems are generating costs above reasonable limits. Assuring high service levels, especially in remote zones, leads to even higher costs. Based on a lean approach, this research aims at developing a new hospital purchasing process. A case study of a public hospital in a remote European area with high levels of demand uncertainty is used. The most common purchasing process is mappe...

Empirical support for purchasing power parity is mixed with results dependent on the time frame and countries under examination, the methodology employed, attempts to control for aggregation bias in the data, and whether adjustments are made to account for productivity differences across nations. As a central component of macroeconomic thinking, purchasing power parity is battered and battle-wo...

Purchasing virtual products and services in virtual worlds is a rapidly growing form of online consumer behavior, especially among the digital natives. The paper examines why teens spend real money in virtual goods and services. We empirically investigate the reasons for virtual purchasing behavior in world‟s most popular social virtual world, Habbo Hotel. Using content analysis, we classify th...

customer participation in new economic subjects is a valuable phenomenon that refers to social notice to commerce. in this area consumers want a good protection from the vendors, especially in e-purchasing. companies usually have some strategies to improve customer trust feeling in electronic purchasing. in iran, consumers are always challenging with these companies to fulfill themselves consum...

States and small businesses have been rapidly establishing voluntary health care purchasing pools during the past few years. Purchasing pools can decrease health care costs, improve access for some small businesses and individual persons, allow greater choice among health care plans, and provide continuity of care. Purchasing pools also help to even the balance of power in the health care marke...

Initial purchasing decisions such as make-or-buy decisions and supplier selection are decisions of strategic importance to companies. The nature of these decisions usually is complex and unstructured. Management Science techniques might be helpful tools for this kind of decision making problems. So far, however, the application of outranking methods in purchasing decisions has not been suggeste...