Proposes to determine the relative importance of factors on which people rely in choosing a place to live and their assessments of a local area in the Southeastern USA. Presents recommendations to aid local authorities in improving quality of life in the region. Concludes that this should be...

Discusses consumer lifestyle attributes and psychographic data with respect to market segmentation and as systematized by “Eurostyles”. Describes a sample application of a neural etwork model to assist in the transfer of the Eurostyle typology to the USA.

Almost a third of Americans have exchanged some working time for more leisure time over the last five years. There are growing signs that Europeans are following suit. The move towards “downshifting” raises new challenges for human resource managers. Examines the issues surrounding the...

Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint...