Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among choice of risk management tools, perceived effectiveness of risk management tools, self-reported risk attitude, and farm and farmer characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – A mail survey was used to collect...

This paper describes a software tool that aids researchers in the study of agenda setting. Agenda setting theory claims that the mass media influences what the public thinks and talks about. The tool is used to cluster documents into topically coherent groupings that are to represent issues...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of inter-market market segments in the adolescents' and young adults' cell phone product-market in Finland, United Arab Emirates, Canada, China, and New Zealand. Drawing upon cell phone feature preferences criteria cited by...

Purpose From scholars' view, there are various research approaches to investigate the city and its spaces. However, there is a need to examine the city and its spaces from the residents' perspective. Hermeneutic phenomenology might be applicable and valuable. Also, communication is a requirement...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare value clusters of people from the same ethnic group living in different circumstances and conditions by describing the conditions and measuring various value dimensions. Design/methodology/approach – The nature of the concept values is teased...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the typology of Chinese indigenous exporters by incorporating proactive‐reactive and long‐ and short‐term export motivations as inputs. This study also seeks to find out whether, when driven with a different strength of four export...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a quantitative investigation into the major working fields of European communication professionals. Design/methodology/approach – The paper build upon previous work done in roles research, but follow a grounded approach in...

Purpose – The mere presence of categories, irrespective of their content, positively influences the satisfaction of choosers who are unfamiliar with the choice domains. In the present research the main goal is to analyze how a complex product category is categorized internally by consumers,...

Purpose – Online auctions have attracted emotional shoppers through exciting shopping processes such as searching and bidding. The recreational and emotional worth of online auction shopping forces auction retailers to develop tailored strategies for their consumers. To this end, this study...

Purpose – The role of affective states in consumer behaviour is well established. However, no study to date has examined online affective states empirically as a basis for constructing typologies of internet users and for assessing the invariance of clusters across national cultures. This...