A survey on the impact of embarrassment on condom purchase behavior was conducted among 130 individuals. The survey sample (93 males, 37 females) were recruited at the University of British Columbia. The primary independent variable of interest was the embarrassment of the respondents when purchasing condoms. The background variables were also considered which included the assessments of sex...

Companies' Facebook pages have emerged as a commonly used marketing channel but consumers' underlying motivations to use these pages and their effect on members' intentions to purchase the host company's products are currently unclear. The present study examines consumers' hedonic and utilitarian motivations to use company-hosted Facebook pages in relation to the community usage behavior (brows...

The Covid-19 pandemic led to dramatic consumer purchasing behaviour shifts when many nations declared the closure of all physical stores stop virus from spreading. As a result, consumers' has changed brick-and-mortar online shopping. This research examines influencing factors that affect consumers’ during pandemic. measures four independent variables: perceived ease use, usefulness, product pri...

Consumer reviews provide a wealth of information about products and services that, if properly identified and extracted, could be of immense value to businesses. While classification of reviews according to sentiment polarity has been extensively studied in previous work, more focused types of review analysis are needed to assist companies in making business decisions. In this work, we introduc...

When a …rm introduces a product with new features, some consumers may …nd it di¢ cult to assess their valuations for these new attributes. Their purchase decisions made under such uncertainty may lead to post-purchase regret. It has been experimentally shown that consumers anticipate their potential post-purchase regret in the future and make their current choices to mitigate or minimize it. Th...

Predicting customer purchase behavior in the e-commerce activities is an important task. However, this effort requires fulfillment of a lot of problems. Recommendation systems have become a common way how to help peo-ple when they have to decide in complex selections. But they are not able to perform predictive tasks in this context satisfactorily. In this paper, we deal with a design of a pred...

The meteorological service (MS) in Korea is provided by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), a governmental organization. This study attempts to measure the economic value of the national MS in the Korean household sector. Economic theory indicates that the economic value of a service is the area under the demand curve, which is the sum of the actual expenditure and the additional wil...

Purpose This paper explores the moderating effects of four personal cultural orientations or PCOs (independence, interdependence, risk aversion and ambiguity intolerance) on relationships among counterfeit proneness, subjective norms, ethical judgments, product evaluation purchase intentions for products. Design/methodology/approach A field study with 840 consumers in Hong Kong using a self-adm...