As an important shopping channel, online retailing has increased consumer choices and added shopping efficiency. As more retailers go online, competition in online retailing has intensified. Retaining customers and cultivating loyalty becomes increasingly important for online retailers due to...

The risk-neutral pricing partial differential equation from a stochastic-volatility jump-diffusion model for a European call option is solved approximately using a regular perturbation and Green's function method. The closed-form approximate solution provides the same accuracy as the Heston...

Solving the Black-Scholes equation using the Green's function method is a good exercise in that it involves several very useful techniques such as asymptotic analysis, change of variables, Green's function, Fourier transform, and complex integration that can be applied elsewhere. Presented here...

The very nature of their position requires superiors to engage in behavior that may have adverse consequences on subordinates. Such deportment might harm the individual (employee) yet enhance the overall good of the organization. Researchers in organizational behavior refer to supervisor...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how social loneliness, emotional loneliness and social isolation relate to Indian consumers’ enjoyment of social interaction with an in-store salesperson. Design/methodology/approach: Over 300 Indian respondents are surveyed about personal...