The development of Internet technology has facilitated the emergence of online marketplace for various kinds of tasks (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in USA and Taskcn.com in China). Although the payment is relatively low, numerous people participate in the tasks in these online marketplaces. Drawing upon shopping value literature, we develop a research model by considering various value percep...

The authors respond to Dunn, Gilbert, and Wilson (2011) and offer additional ideas about how to apply the virtue of thrift to obtain greater affective benefit from spending less. Materialism and over-consumption is damaging for the individual, the economy, and the environment. Over consumption is understandable in light of hedonic adaptation, where the happiness arising from a positive change e...

Products can be described by different numbers of attributes, but can the mere number of attributes presented across a choice set influence what type of options people choose? This article demonstrates that attribute numerosity tends to benefit certain types of options more than others and consequently has systematic effects on choice. Because attributes often serve as a heuristic cue for produ...

The notion of privacy calculus has been used to explain the risk-benefit analysis information technology users perform when asked to provide personal information. This study extends the privacy calculus model by proposing a theoretical framework in which technology characteristics (radicalness and complexity) have moderating effects on the benefit-value and risk-value relationships. The framewo...

Benefit capture in environmental economics usually refers to “capture” of values from non-market estimation for various natural resource projects or programs. This paper expands this notion to include revenue impacts from changes in property values. It also provides empirical evidence from hedonic pricing and contingent valuation of selected improvements to the Muskingum River corridor in SE Ohio.

The study assessed labour wages, fringe benefits as hedonic motivation for employee workplace behaviour. Adopting a descriptive and quantitative approach, the survey method was adopted to collect data from 436 participants population of 736 staff eight selected commercial banks in cross river state, Nigeria using purposive, proportional simple random sampling. instrument collection is self-deve...

Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the existence and structure of stable outcomes (i.e., partitions in coalitions), assuming that preferences are given. However, there is little discussion on thi...