In this paper we investigate the effects of trade on the national minimum quality standards applied by two trading partners. We employ a simple partial equilibrium model in which national regulators set a minimum quality standard for a product whose quality is unobservable to consumers prior to...

A concordant ordering of brands, generated with a computer assisted linear format, an alphabetical listing of brands, and a discordant summary rating of brands were compared on decision quality, user evaluations, and decision time. The decision task was difficult as the decision set contained a...

Across much of the developed and developing world the last few years have been marked by protest against institutions and corporations. Much has been said about the significance of these protests, indeed books broadly supportive of anti-corporate protest compete for ratings against management...

This paper seeks to examine processes of state restructuring in exploring the ways inwhich Business Improvement Districts are being introduced into UK cities. Inadvancing the analysis the focus here is on the way in which one or two New YorkBusiness Improvement Districts were constructed as...

Vienas svarbiausių marketingo ir verslo uždavinių- skatinti vartojimą, kuris padėtų verslo dalyviams siekti savo tikslų, orientuotų į savo verslo plėtrą, produktų populiarinimą ir pelno užtikrinimą. Produktų populiarinimas yra siejamas su vartotojais, kurie yra pagrindiniai...

The growth of world population, market globalization, unethical business practices of large companies, irresponsible consumer behavior threatening to completely degrade the health of the planet. Consumerist society requires the purchase and possession of things as imperatives to a good life,...

There are many crises in today's world and most of them are interconnected and interrelated and contribute to what Brown (2007) recently referred to as 'dark times'. The list seems endless - climate change, pollution and loss of bio-diversity, social inequality and injustice, organized crime and...