The world economy continues to develop, prosperity and crisis coexist. The global financial crisis and the European debt crisis brought unstable factors to the world economy, and the security of global financial system was challenged. To cope with the crisis in the future, worldwide financial...

Seasonal variation in intensive agricultural land use patterns and its spatial scale effects on water nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations in watersheds have always been major concerns. However, the relationships and contributions of the important land use metrics to the pond water N...

A simultaneous confidence band provides a variety of inferences on the unknown components of a regression model. There are several recent papers using confidence bands for various inferential purposes; see for example, Sun "et al." (1999), Spurrier (1999), Al-Saidy "et al." (2003), Liu "et al."...

Despite growing interest in various facets of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) position, there is very little research on CMO compensation. Accordingly, we set out to investigate the determinants of CMO compensation and its effect on firm performance. Employing the lens of agency theory, we...

This research proposes an analytical model of the joint optimization of coupon face value and duration together with the product price, and determines the impact of coupon design on consumers’ redemption behavior. A model of rational forward-looking consumers’ redemption behavior is derived...

Purpose: People generally believe that business with negative word-of-mouth, such as negative customer reviews can hardly have good sales. But a number of intriguing examples seem to contradict such beliefs. Academic has so far begun to explore the possible positive effect of negative customer...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of internet commonweal characteristics on consumers’ participation willingness, mainly predicated on the stimulus-organism-response model. Furthermore, co-creation value is tested as a mediator of the relationship between...