The consequence level of technical and civic equipment as one of basic presumptions for population stability in the country documents possibility of raising new job places that comes from benefits of small enterprise, that can't be in efficiency without important rural infrastructure. Therefore,...

For the Romanian economy, the period 2011-2015 was that period within which many measures concerning surpassing the recession were applied. Besides, the existence of a double anchoring was added: first, through the existence of the IMF, but also through the continuing presence of the financial...

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...

This paper extends two related studies in counterfeiting by Tom et al. (1998) on consumer attitudes toward, and purchase history of counterfeit goods and Cordell et al. (1996) on investigating the extrinsic cues brand, price and retailer influencing consumption of counterfeits. The three main...

Copying, imitation, counterfeiting and knock-offs have been considered to be detrimental to the global economy and to innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences or even in areas of Management, it is however...

This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers' skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry...