The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...

Weekly sales of creative goods – like music records, movies or books – usually peak shortly after release and then decline quickly. In many cases, however, they follow a hump-shaped pattern where sales increase for some time. A popular explanation for this phenomenon is word of mouth among a...

The importance of branding in marketing strategies makes it essential to understand the elements that give value-added to the brands. The very nature of ecological brands adds value to them. Knowing the underlying emotions of the elements that add value to brands can justify the benefit of...

This paper proposes a model to determine the direct and moderating effects of COVID-19 on the overall satisfaction of cultural tourists with the heritage destination visited. The hypotheses put forward in the model have been tested employing non-linear structural equation models (SEM), estimated...

This study tests a framework of business-to-business (B2B) sellers' sales performance motivations in services firms. An exploratory-descriptive research design was used and data was collected from 389 respondents working in the services-orientated business sector of Norway. The study's results...

TV series have become one of the most successful types of audio-visual product. Their potential to cul-tivate massive loyal audiences makes them an excellent medium for promoting the places they depict,presenting them as attractive destinations, and inducing the phenomenon known as film tourism....

Sales tax is generally not included in the advertised price quoted to consumers in the United States. In contrast, value added taxes (VAT) are embedded into the price in most other countries. This article investigates how the two different pricing structures and consumers' decision-making...

With the growth of technology and the exigency to continuously improve their socioeconomic position, users must gradually adopt new AI-based solutions. However, users may experience dissatisfaction and frustration when faced with the replacement of previous systems. To bridge this gap, this...

The following paper discusses the social marketing campaign ‘Drink milk. Grow to be great!’. This is the successful Polish health campaign which promotes milk drinking among Polish children. At the very beginning the case of Polish campaign is briefly presented in order to facilitate...

Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The first focuses on the distinction between exogenous, location dependent comparative cost advantages, such as the relative abundance of capital or labour, and endogenously created...