Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide marketing professionals and researchers with an overview and understanding of core components that make up the current social media environment from a young consumer's perspective to enable successful communication, outreach and engagement...

The tale of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a cautionary lesson concerning the exploits of private equity entities, who aided-and-abetted by insiders, reduced a healthy and vibrant corporation (HCA) into a crippled debt-laden basket-case. Perhaps, the best analogy is one of a vampire,...

This paper uses evidence from the US to examine the impact of adolescent illegal consumption and violent behaviour on later life chances. Specifically, we look at the effect of such behaviour by young men in late adolscence on productivity and household formation ten years on. We find that...