The first half of the seventies has seen a virtual explosion of interest in the use of random coefficient regression techniques which, for the most part, have been developed or refined by econometricians. However, given the importance of regression analysis as a managerial tool, it is surprising...

Collinearity in the data set used by Ball, Brown and Officer, in their study of the asset pricing model in the Australian equity market, virtually guarantees the results that they obtain. This applies to their tests of the linearity of risk-return relationships and to their tests of the effects...

Assessing market acceptance of different options in cable and over-the-air subscription television is essential in the planning stages of these products. This article provides an outline of a new estimation method, 'functional measurement' which can assess demand for an as yet hypothetical...

Process chain network (PCN) and business process modeling notation (BPMN) are two alternative ways to visualize a service delivery process. They take different perspectives towards service operations and are used in slightly different circumstances. We examine the similarities and differences...

The main purpose of this study is to increase understanding of teenagers' self perception on attitudes toward luxury brands. The study investigates how social consumption motivations affect teenagers' attitudes toward luxury brands, how teens' self concepts can influence social consumption...

This paper posits a model of firm-employee relationship strength that permits the future measurement of an index of the strength of intra-firm relationships between the firm and the employees of that firm. The relationship marketing literature currently provides no clear direction as to how to...

This paper introduces the logistic model for the analysis of holdings of a new financial asset. The evolution of holdings of saving investment accounts in Australia is shown to follow extremely closely Oliver's (1969) generalized logistic process and that these holdings are reaching a saturation...