The concept of this paper is based on the framework in which the research is situated within the social structure that constitutes people, activity, context and culture. It explores industrial(product) design’s and artifact’s contribution to knowledge generation and its utilisation by...

Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...

Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to consumers. Without this information, managers have difficulty judging which...

While conjoint analysis has been applied in a wide variety of different contexts in Marketing, most applications fail to explicitly consider retaliatory reactions from competitors. In this paper, a methodological extension is developed for conjoint analysis by explicitly modeling competition in...

The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about Millennium Products and the Design Council's Sharing Innovation web site. The Sharing Innovation project examined over 80% of the 1000 plus Millennium Products, looking at their...

As we are about to enter both a new century and new millennium the human race appears to be engaging in universal stock taking. Auditing the past seems to be a means of coming to terms with the future.Design is not exempt from these phenomena. Both designers and design educationists are...

Mit einer fundierten und umfassenden Darstellung des internationalen Marketing-Managements, wendet sich dieses Buch sowohl an Studierende als auch an Praktiker. Es behandelt ausführlich die internationalen Aspekte der Marketing-Planung, des Marketing-Controlling und der Marketing-Organisation...

From the early 1990’s, both the marketing and accounting disciplines have reported insightful and similar developments. In seeking to define and measure the marketing concept, research on ‘market orientation’ has highlighted the need for organization-wide information and action on...

The aim of this paper is to explore how retail store image is perceived by consumers from different cultural backgrounds and with different degrees of awareness and experience of the retailer. The subject is IKEA, a retailer recognized as having a global approach to the markets in which it...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of community-based peripheral attribute attractiveness as a mediating variable in relationship of product innovation and consumer purchase intention. Honda motor matic community in Central Java and Yogyakarta used as a sample. Sampling used in...