All over the world there are several countries where airships are being used for military and civilian purposes. The rebirth of this mean of transportation, capable of easily overcoming some deficiencies of the conventional ones, brings medium and long term economic benefits. In addition, they...

In recent sociological studies of markets, especially financial markets, researchers have argued that economics is performative (MacKenzie, Callon et al.). By this they refer to the observation that theories such as the Black-Scholes formula do not simply describe reality, but contributed to the...

This paper is concerned with the tension between consumer persuasion and freedom of choice. We study how assertive language (as in the slogan Just do it!) affects consumer compliance in hedonic vs. utilitarian contexts. Previous literature consistently claimed that forceful language would cause...

Despite the obvious business value of visualizing similarities between elements of evolving information spaces and mapping these similarities e.g. onto geospatial reference systems, analysts are often more interested in how the semantic orientation (sentiment) towards an organization, a product...

This article deals with the concept of risk. The first aim of the analysis of the existing risk definitions is to structure the existing definitions in order to offer a basis to build up a risk definition depending on its purpose. The second aim is to make empirical investigations about the...