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,...

This manual contains the Radiation Control Standards'' and Radiation Control Procedures'' at Hanford Operations which have been established to provide the necessary control radiation exposures within Irradiation Processing Department. Provision is also made for including, in the form of...

In the United States of America, numerous organizations are writing standards and recommend practices for contamination control and cleanroom applications. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IES), and various US Government agencies are...

This thesis examines the impact of e-Business in the B2B segment of the Supply Chainbetween UK retailers and Sri Lankan manufacturers in the apparel sector.The literature review explored four interrelated themes, two of them informed by anexploratory study. Research collating these four themes...

This study seeks to examine the practicality and applications of a customer-based brand equity model in the Chinese sportswear market.Design/methodology/approach - Based on Aaker’s well-known conceptual framework of brand equity, this study employed structural equation modeling to investigate...

The paper attempts to shed light on the key drivers of consumer tipping behavior and reports the findings from an exploratory study aimed at addressing consumer motivations and their influence on consumers’ willingness to tip. When approaching the research issue, the phenomenon presents an...

This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical evidence on the effect of local norms on the contractual choice, using a comprehensive dataset on US agricultural leasing contracts. We focus on the choice between cash-rent and...

Ausgehend von den Erkenntnissen des Behavioral Finance wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Persönlichkeit als Erklärungsansatz für interindividuelle Unterschiede im Anlegerverhalten an der Börse untersucht. Die Darstellung derartiger Zusammenhänge dient dem Ziel, Investoren Einblicke in...