While various strategic business issues related to product design have been explored by academicians and practitioners, one issue has largely been ignored: How do financial markets assess and evaluate companies' product design? The purpose of this article is to examine this issue, especially...

A well-documented behavioral pattern in consumer financial decision-making is the disposition effect, which refers to the tendency to sell winning investments too early, while holding on to losing investments too long. This bias has negative wealth consequences, because typically, individuals'...

The disposition effect refers to individuals' tendency to sell their winning investments too early, while holding on to their losing investments too long. This behavioral bias has negative consequences for individuals' wealth, because losing investments usually continue to underperform, while...

Due to the highly voluminous, heterogeneous, and unstructured nature of global business news streaming at a fast pace, it has become increasingly difficult for marketing executives, corporate communications managers, and market analysts to make sense and track news media stories addressing the...

According to standard (rational) models of (financial) decision-making, consumers should generally have a single strong, normative focal goal when making financial decisions like selecting which stocks to invest in: to maximize risk-adjusted financial returns. Nevertheless, consumers' financial...