While there have been numerous studies of on-line shopping behaviour, the impact of internet adoption upon island communities remains largely unexplored. This is despite the identified difficulties that are encountered when attempting to access goods and services in these peripheral economies....

This study investigates the relationship between consumer motivation, understanding and use of sustainability labels on food products (both environmental and ethical labels), which are increasingly appearing on food products. Data was collected by means of an online survey implemented in the UK,...

The article studies consumers in the market of students catering on the basis of the method of cluster analysis, which is a many-sided statistical procedure, which envisages collection of data, which keep information about the sampling and ordering objects into relatively homogeneous groups, as...

Retail merchandising is the process used in order to conduct retail sales. As part of the process, the merchandiser pays close attention to the types of products offered for sale, how to best present those products to consumers, and determining what is a reasonable retail price for each unit...

The paper focuses on consumer behaviour in front of emerging food risk factors. At the centre of the analysis is the relationship between food safety and consumption of a typical local cheese (mozzarella) following news of the "rubbish emergency" in the province of Naples, reported by newspapers...

Greece has a large number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) under construction or recently completed. However, whilst the European Union provides funds for the capital development of WWTPs, there is often a lack of funding to maintain full operation of these plants. This study examines the...

Organisations rely on data analytics to process vast quantities of consumer data to inform strategy and policy decisions. Descriptive analytics is commonly used to provide insight into past consumer behaviour. However, greater value can be achieved by predicting future consumer behaviour through...

This study was intended to frame current changes of farms and consumers in the new virtual contexts. This research analysed consumers' different purchasing attitudes in a traditional or virtual context. Here, we presented the first results of an in-progress research that may explain the new...

This paper is the result of a survey concerning the perception of the Romanian students about the educational alternatives offered by the dynamics of the electronics media. Using the qualitative research methods, the author investigates the impact of the new technologies already being in service...