This paper examines how social capital and organizational innovativeness influence business performance through their separate, indirect, or interactive effects, and how these effects differ across the institutional contexts of a transition economy and a market economy. In line with...

Drawing on insights from evolutionary psychology and sociology, this research seeks to explain the gender differences and within-sex variations in consumer responses to nudity in advertisements. Specifically, we argue that the abundant resources that come with modernization emancipate women from...

COSMOS is a technology solutions provider offering IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, imaging, and printing for consumers and enterprises. The company uses a mix of distribution channels (both online and offline) to deliver its products and services....

This research aims to empirically determine which factors best explain business to business adoption of a radical, high-tech innovation early in the diffusion process. Early lifecycle data collection provides insights about the differences in determinants of adoption at different times in the...

Of interest in the consumer behavior field are the drivers of experiential and aesthetic consumption. This paper considers these questions in the context of the motion picture industry. Most motion picture industry studies use secondary data to elucidate a relationship between movie attributes...

The Practice Prize Reports consist of one article with two parts as follows: “Sinha, Ashish, J. Jeffrey Inman, Yantao Wang, Joonwook Park. Attribute drivers: A factor analytic choice map approach for understanding choices among SKUs” and “Tellis, Gerard J., Rajesh K. Chandy, Deborah...

The study provides empirical support to the much conceptualized but not-yet-tested framework of luxury value perceptions in cross-national context. Using five distinct parameters, the study compares the luxury value perceptions among British and Indian consumers, thus providing a rich...

This study provides insights into how interpersonal influences and branding cues shape consumer luxury purchase intentions. Using a sample of British and Indian consumers, this study investigates and compares structure, properties and mean levels of susceptibility to interpersonal influences and...