Retail chains essentially practice one of two broad strategies in setting prices across their stores. The more straightforward is to set a chain-or country-wide price. Alternatively, managers of retail chains may customize prices to the store level according to local demand and competitive conditions. For example, a chain may price lower in a location with lower demand and/or more competition. ...

Dual distribution systems where firms simultaneously use vertical integration and market governance are widely used across diverse marketing contexts (e.g., restaurants, retailing, and industrial selling). A prominent example of dual distribution includes business format franchising, where firms, the franchisors, license operation of some of its units to franchisees while simultaneously owning ...

The return on investments in electronic procurement platforms has been elusive. We show that the use of an electronic platform for the procurement of pharmaceuticals and medical devices has saved the Government of Chile money. Using a unique data set that covers purchases of the same items before and after the new Chilecompra platform was introduced in 2004 and includes controls for other varia...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...

Background and Objectives: Religious behaviors, among which Trust in the Almighty God is a major representation, play a key role in giving meaning to life, generation of hope, and mental relaxation. The present study was conducted aimed at examination of the subject Trust in the Almighty God and analysis of the concept Trust from the perspective of psychology, delineating its relationship with ...

Prayer and verbally answered prayer would seem to offer powerful evidence in relation to the question of human agency. Forty members of an English Pentecostal group completed a questionnaire on prayer: 25 reported an answering voice from God, 15 of them hearing Him aloud. The latter groups were interviewed and characteristics of phenomenology and context elicited. The voice of God cannot be hel...

Although religiousness is tied to coping, little work examines the role of specific religious beliefs in the coping process. Applying the transactional model of coping, positivity of God image and vertical religious focus were assessed in a national sample of 103 parents of children with disabilities. Controlling for general religiousness, these specific beliefs were correlated with parents’ ap...