Business researchers have recently become interested in how an individual’s share ownership in a publicly-listed company may affect his/her repeat patronage towards the company’s products and services. The purpose of this article is to investigate the influence of share ownership on repeat patronage, in conjunction with the influence of customer satisfaction. Survey data of a large sample of cu...

In the last decade, the Hispanic population of the United States has grown exponentially. The purchasing power of Hispanics in the United States exceeds $870 billion. However, little is known about Hispanics‘ informationseeking and online-purchase behaviors. This study attempts to fill the gaps in the existing literature. We develop a model of Hispanics‘ online information seeking and purchase ...

The presumption in the theoretical literature on ethnic mobilization is that voting for ethnic parties is a purely expressive act, not subject to cost-benefit calculations. Models of strategic voting, meanwhile, typically make no reference to the ethnic identity of voters and parties. This article challenges the presumption that voting for ethnic parties is primarily an expressive act. It devel...

While ideologies and elites change, patronage politics remains the preferred strategy of Central Asia’s autocrats. Aspiring presidents-for-life distribute wealth to handpicked appointees who reciprocate by implementing, to varying degrees, executive policy. Shared strategies of rule, however, do not translate into shared state capacity. The trains do not always run on time, and in many places i...

This essay examines the economics of patronage and the roles of asymmetric information and reputation in the early modern reorganization of scientific activities, specifically their influence upon the historical formation of key elements in the ethos and organizational structure of publicly funded open science. The emergence during the late 16th and early 17th centuries of the idea and practice...

The author discusses here the efforts made to revive Ayurveda in the twentieth century by the protagonists of Ayurveda during the national movement and appraises how far political support and State patronage did good for the recrudescence of Ayurveda.

The unique climate conditions of Plateau State and the numerous tourism attraction and spots has made Plateau State the home of peace and tourism and also tourist haven of Nigeria. This paper is centered on five resorts in Plateau State such as National Museum, Jos Wildlife Park, ASSOP Falls, Pandom Wildlife Park and Solomon Lar Amusement Park. Data for resort patronage were provided only in Na...

during the reign of the seljuks (431–590), a considerable number of persian poets and writers lived in their territory. reviewing the lives of the kings, and that of their ministers and other politicians and dignitaries of seljuks ear, this article tries to show how much each of these individuals had supported persian literature.  at the next step, the patrons are classified in six categories: ...

This paper addresses one issue that has been somewhat neglected in the marketing literature. Namely, whether basic marketing relationships at the establishment level are robust to major changes in the macroeconomic environment where they operate. What allows us to address this issue is a combination of two factors: passage of a law liberalizing retail gas prices in Spain and the availability of...