With economic considerations exerting an ever-increasing influence on soccer clubs’ activities, fan satisfaction becomes an essential strategic management objective for these institutions. Despite this topic’s obvious relevance, the literature has paid little attention to the measurement of...

As mixture regression models increasingly receive attention from both theory and practice, the question of selecting the correct number of segments gains urgency. A misspecification can lead to an under- or oversegmentation, thus resulting in flawed management decisions on customer targeting or...

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Problem der Modellselektion im Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS)-Ansatz. Dieser Ansatz, welcher der Methodengruppe der Mischverteilungsmodelle zuzuordnen ist, ermöglicht eine simultane Schätzung der Modellparameter bei gleichzeitiger...

In 2002, CICEM Ltd. 1 , a worldwide recognized chemical producer located in Asia, initiated the development of new kind of plastic foil suitable for packaging bitumen into plastic bags. Bitumen is one of the oldest mineral oil products won during the refining of crude oil. Typical application...

Thema dieses Papers sind die Bestimmungsfaktoren der Mediaselektion und ihr Bezug zu theoretischen Konzepten. Die Bestimmungsfaktoren der Mediaselektion lassen sich in qualitative und quantitative Kriterien untergliedern. Als wichtigstes Kriterium konnte in zahlreichen Umfragen die...

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....