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The Performance of Competitive and Lottery Incentive Schemes Vis-À-Vis Fixed Fee Incentive Schemes in Improving Conjoint Analysis
Vadali, Srikant - 2017
Paying a fixed amount of money to participants in choice-based conjoint (CBC) studies is the industry standard. Recently, Ding (2007) has shown that a lottery incentive scheme outperformed a fixed fee incentive scheme when predicting out-of-sample choices. We achieve two research goals in the...
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Prize Decoys at Work - New Experimental Evidence for Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Choices on Prizes in Competitions
Mueller, Holger - 2014
In a controlled domain replication of the well-established prize decoy experiment, we provide new evidence for the recently disputed robustness of asymmetric dominance effects (ADEs). Specifically, using real choices between – according to pretests – meaningful options that trigger tradeoff...
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Behavioral model of business change management in relation to building competitiveness in market economy conditions
Vrtana, David; Rosnerova, Zuzana; Križanová, Anna - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 22 (2021) 2, pp. 493-503
analyze the factors influencing consumer behavior in the market conditions of the Slovak Republic. We described the current … influence consumer behavior and can be important for change management. We compared the results of the survey with the results … differentiated. The company thus tries to influence customers' shopping behavior as effectively as possible. Therefore, it is …
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The visible hand: Finger ratio (2D:4D) and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard C. - 2011
D) of the right hand, a measure of prenatal hormone exposure, is correlated with bidding behavior and total profits. 2D …
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Do women give up competing more easily? : evidence from the lab and the Dutch math olympiad
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...
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Explaining gender differences in competitiveness : gender-task stereotypes
Große, Niels D.; Riener, Gerhard - 2010
Gender-specific patterns of self-selection into competitive and cooperative environments may have multiple reasons. One of the most prominent explanations to this point is, that there are inherent differences between men and women when it comes to preferences regarding competition. We take a...
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Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad
Buser, Thomas - 2016
We conduct three lab experiments and use field data from the Dutch Math Olympiad to study how the gender gap in willingness to compete evolves in response to experience. The main result is that women are more likely than men to stop competing if they lose. In the Dutch Math Olympiad, this means...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979517
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EXPORT DRIVERS AND BARRIERS: EVIDENCE FROM GHANAIAN PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING FIRMS
Akomea, Samuel Yaw; Sørensen, Olav Jull; … - In: Global Journal of Business Research 8 (2014) 2, pp. 81-96
The study is an exploratory study on the state of exports within the Ghanaian pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Data was obtained from interviews of key managers involved in strategy formulation of 5 exporting pharmaceutical manufacturing companies in Ghana. The study revealed that out of...
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The product life cycle of durable goods
Kaldasch, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The model presented here derives the product life cycle of durable goods. It is based on the idea that the purchase process consists of first purchase and repurchase. First purchase is determined by the market penetration process (diffusion process), while repurchase is the sum of replacement...
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Development of Food Retailing and Factors Affecting the Competition in Food Retailing
Kilic, Serkan; Senol, Gokhan - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 1 (2010) 2, pp. 45-45
Retailing is a dynamic and complex sector that offers wide range of products and services to consumers. This sector which includes different types of enterprises, has an important position within the supply chain. Food retailing has also a big potential within retailing sector. On the other...
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