Purchasing online is becoming increasingly more popular option in virtually every industry. There are a number of advantages and disadvantages associated with purchasing automobiles online that were modeled and tested. The basic extraction method was PCA with the basic rotation method of varimax with Kaiser Normalization, although basic descriptive statistics were used to simply the results the...

Many companies collect stated preference data (SP) like intentions and satisfaction as well as revealed preference data (RP) like actual purchasing behavior. It seems relevant to examine the predictive usefulness of this information for future revealed preferences, that is, customer behavior. In this paper we address this issue by considering three case studies.

The rapid growth of e-commerce is imposing profound impacts on modern society. On the supply side, the emergence of e-commerce is greatly changing the operation behavior of some retailers and is increasing product internationalization due to its geographically unlimited nature. On the demand side, the pervasiveness of e-commerce affects how, where, and when consumers shop, and indirectly influe...

supply chain management is a set of guidelines for integration of chains, which aims to reduce costs and increase system services to customers. one of the most important issues for supply chain stockholders is procuring and purchasing requested items in a timely manner. thus, a variety of models have been proposed as purchasing strategy in supply chains. group purchasing is a system which leads...

National development levels are still largely measured in terms of GNP per capita, the weak points of which relate to the fact that: • substantial elements of life quality (levels of health, education and nutrition) are not included; • nor are the environmental costs of growth; • actual purchasing power is not considered; • nor is social inequality within the countries; and • economic activitie...

This study compares hypothetical and nonhypothetical responses to choice experiment questions. We test for hypothetical bias in a choice experiment involving beef ribeye steaks with differing quality attributes. In general, hypothetical responses predicted higher probabilities of purchasing beef steaks than nonhypothetical responses. Thus, hypothetical choices overestimate total willingness-to-...

However, more Americans than ever lack health insurance, presenting a major barrier to receiving quality health care. These include children with congenital heart disease, who formerly would have died, but now survive to confront these challenges. And after an initial doubling, the National Institutes of Health’s budget has fallen flat with an actual reduction in purchasing power because fundin...

Using the Theory of Reasoned Action as the theoretical base, data collected through a semi-annual survey of web users was used to determine if beliefs about privacy and Internet security helped determine attitudes towards the Internet, which were thought to affect intent to make Internet purchases. Intent, in turn, was thought to affect actual purchasing behavior. Taking Internet experience int...

A large number of network applications require a particular Quality of Service (QoS), that can be provided through proper network resource allocation. Furthermore, certain applications (multimedia oriented) may require guarantees of resource availability for predictable QoS. This paper introduces a distributed multi-market approach to network resource allocation. In this approach link bandwidth...