Customers often evaluate products at brick-and-mortar stores to identify their “best fit” product but buy it for a lower price at a competing online retailer. This free-riding behavior by customers is referred to as “showrooming” and we show that this is detrimental to the profits of the...

Identifying the determinants of luxury consumption may produce positive results for marketing. This the study is based on an online survey including the participants from Romania, Spain and Turkey, and it aims to reach possible factors that may affect the demand for luxury goods. It investigates...

Multi-Channel Retailing hat sich als Distributionsstrategie fest im Handel etabliert. Auf Grund der zunehmenden Verbreitung des Multi-Channel Retailing in der Handelspraxis ist eine Differenzierung allein auf Grundlage des Geschäftsmodells heute nicht mehr erfolgversprechend. Vielmehr muss das...