Export researchers have paid considerable attention to export barriers as well as to those variables that encourage firms to become involved in exporting. Almost all export studies have looked at firms' "export or not" decision in isolation, either in relation to incentives to export (firms...

Wage systems have an significant impact on the community and, over the years, a variety of wage policies have been used in Australia. The basic attitudes of political parties, the union movement and employer organisations are well known but public opinion has not been extensively probed. A...

Cognitive Dissonance has interested consumer researchers for many years. Until recently, however, there has not been an accepted consumer dissonance scale. Using a recently developed scale, the present study examined the presence of dissonance segments in two customer samples, in which a...

A random sample of 400 homes in Perth responded to a life style instrument and to a series of questions on radio listening patterns. Respondents were clustered into a number of groups based upon their self reported listening frequencies of the radio stations in Perth. Multiple discriminant...

A random sample of 400 homes in Perth responded to a life style instrument and to a series of questions on television viewing habits. Respondents were divided into a number of groups based upon their self reported viewing frequencies of the three available Perth television channels. Using...

Financial pressure and concern for the environment has meant many consumers are aware of the need to reduce their consumption of many resources, including energy, which is the focus of the present study. While potential energy use deterrents in the form of access constraints and price increases...