physical evidence in marketing

... ones Therefore, building and maintaining long-lasting relationships has become a focus of contemporary marketing practice and the subject of research in marketing By providing efficient repeat ... Nermin Eyuboglu is Associate Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing and International Business, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (e-mail: nermin_eyuboglu@ ... Trang 1Nermin Eyuboglu & Andreas BujaQuasi-Darwinian Selection in Marketing Relationships This article introduces quasi-Darwinian selection as a new explanatory paradigm for marketing relationships

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... these distinct symptoms may have important roles in determining general anxiety, depression and physical health in at-risk individuals of inherited cardiac disorders, the present findings may ... creating a lot of uncertainty and distress when interpreting signs and symptoms for the individuals at risk [11,12] In addition, information of being at risk of a possible life-threatening cardiac ... which indicates that avoid-ance includes more than being an adaptive coping response Thus, the current findings suggest that avoid-ance may be part of a psychological process highly influ-ential in

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... databases (Medline, Embase, Psychinfo, Cinahl) and hand searches We included studies describing the original development of fully structured instruments measuring dimensions of physical activity ... We only included interviewer administered instruments if the information was self-reported by the patient and we excluded instruments that required a rating by an interviewer Content of instrument ... assessment of physical activity We included instruments measuring dimensions of physical activity or related constructs We considered the following definition for physical activity according to the

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... libraries opening early in the twentieth century Borrowing between libraries started early as well, with the ALA first publishing the U.S Interlibrary Loan Code in 1917 and adopting it in 1919 Throughout ... mentions physical delivery, but only in passing The bibliography in this book contains several unpublished documents and press releases that make up the bulk lit-of current physical delivery information ... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moving materials : physical delivery in libraries / edited by Valerie Horton and Bruce Smith. p cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... result from the delay But in the business of transporting goods a delay may result in a patron using an alternative information source, such as a commercial book dealer or information provider To ... compensation insurance An institution should require carriers to list the institution as additionally insured, to ensure that a loss against the institution is paid directly from the insurance company ... variables influence the effectiveness of routing and materials ment systems, including manage-integrated library system (ILS) or ILL system functionalities Trang 990 PaRT THRee: ManaGInG PHySICaL

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... brings in the incoming cart, she takes the outgoing back to the truck and, ultimately, back to the central sorting facility without ever having lifted a tote during the entire route By having ... going to other libraries within a cluster can still be placed into destination totes or bags, thus reducing handling and labor costs at a centralized sorting location Creating clusters within ... goal of improving material handling management efficiency For example, in SirsiDynix products the function is referred to as hold clustering; in Innovative Interfaces, priority ing For the purpose

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... communications with participating libraries, the courier website is an excellent vehicle for providing just-in-time, 24/7 training Courier train- ing falls into two main categories: the big-picture ... is price setting Pricing policies often involve extensive negotiation among partici-pating members, state governing funders, or other involved parties Setting pric-ing for the upcoming year is ... groups are looking at sharing information between courier providers, but we are a long way from developing uniform standards for delivery proce-guiDELinES FOr uSing Pink inTErSySTEM rOuTing LaBELS

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... an “acceptable wait time” continues to shorten Before word processing and fax machines, wait time was measured in days Today we think in minutes, not days and certainly not weeks Many baby boomers ... possible vacation destinations, get answers to simple questions, or find an essay or blog post or podcast on any topic of interest Increasingly, search engines are also helping them find books and other ... more expensive than maintaining a mid-sized branch library and is routinely evaluated by patrons as the library’s best ser vice The only things stopping home delivery from becoming a norm across

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... “Building Earth’s Largest Library: Driving into the Future,” Searcher 7 (March 1999): 34. 2. Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative, “About GoGetter!” (2008), http:// rethinkingresourcesharing.org/getit.html. ... Department of Public Instruction Bessant,... Converting individual smaller shipments into larger, multishipment loads in order to achieve transportation savings Container (Shipping Container): Standard-sized ... factor in the success of any method of document delivery It includes a cost analysis of shipping original physical materials as opposed to scanning/photocopying articles and sending the

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... 64–65 i ILL See interlibrary loan ILS systems floating collection capability in, 106 provisions for home delivery in, 158 inbound shipments, 68–69 indemnity clause in contract, 80–81 independent ... precaution against vendor abandon-ment, 64 in-house fleet, 13 innovative carriers, in RFP, 71 Institute of Supply Management, 49 institutional libraries, 146–147 insurance and liability in contract ... presorting for centralized manual sorting, 94–96 pricing in contracts, 74, 85–86 in courier industry, 47 customer understandings of, 62–63 extremely low rates, 70, 76 policies for, 132 print-on-demand

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 10:20

... 108 inches (length plus girth) Pricing is based on weight Packages weighing more than one pound must be shipped directly from the post office Costs are incurred in both shipping and returning ... membership For instance, research-oriented academic institutions are often more interested in speed over cost and tend to favor using the commercial overnight ser vices like FedEx Given that physical ... shredded paper.”3 USPS packaging requirements add considerably to cost and labor It can take three to five minutes to wrap a packing for mailing, depending on size Packing time can become a major

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... state of the carrier industry overall? Is it growing, steady-state, shrinking? David: The transportation industry is changing in numerous ways, but costs in the industry are rising as a percentage ... years in the courier industry working on a regional and national basis indus-in operations, human resources, as well as sales and marketindus-ing Becky also has ten years of experience in proposing, ... have in place is in its own control This boils down to hiring, training, and improving ergonomics and pre-ventative maintenance If proper vetting of potential drivers is done and staff are trained

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... do? Maintaining an in-house fleet and drivers means business will continue, but gas prices and liability insurance and other pressures felt by the carrier industry are also felt by the in-house ... cost per unit while maintaining or increasing on-time delivery For orga nizations with tight budget constraints, cost per unit and total spend are key metrics in determining orga nizational effectiveness ... unacceptable for years in most industries Among other things, they distract library workers from focusing on their business objectives in dealing with the carrier—choosing the best-ser vice,

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... that these variables are con-tinuous However, as will become apparent in the next section and in subse-quent chapters, many interesting marketing variables are not continuous but discrete (for example, ... extend those in chapter 4 Examples in the marketing research literature of applications of these models can be found in Guadagni and Little (1983), Chintagunta et al (1991), Go¨nu¨l and Srinivasan ... models in the first place Indeed, as is apparent from the table of contents and also from a casual glance at the mathematical formulas in subsequent chapters, the analysis of marketing data using

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 05:20

... the main-tained assumptions for the unobserved error variable"tin (3.7) are violated or that the functional form (which is obviously linear in the standard Linear Regression model) is inappropriate ... be found in Greene (2000), Verbeek (2000) and Wooldridge (2000) In fact, this chapter mainly aims to set some notation and to highlight some important topics in econometric modeling In later ... many cases, however, one may expect that marketing instruments such as prices, advertising and promotions do have an impact on sales In the case of a single price variable, xt, one can then choose

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 05:20

... tossing a fair coin.para-In that case, the probability  of obtaining heads or tails is 0:5 When modeling marketing data concerning, for example, brand choice orthe response to a direct mailing, ... same kind of DGP was used inchapter 3 Additionally, in order to obtain binomial data, we apply the rule Yi¼ 1 if yi > 0 and Yi¼ 0 if yi  0 In figure 4.1, we depict a scatter gram of this binomial ... Trang 14 A binomial dependent variableIn this chapter we focus on the Logit model and the Probit model for binarychoice, yielding a binomial dependent variable In section 4.1 we discuss

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 05:20

... This aspect of the Multinomial Logit model is in markedcontrast to the binomial Logit model, where the probabilities are monoto-nically increasing or decreasing in xi In fact, note that for only ... restricting thecorresponding parameters to zero Put another way, multiplying the numera-tor and denominator in (5.4) by a non-zero constant, for example expðÞ,changes the intercept parameters 0;j into ... illustration in section 5.4 concerns the choice between fourbrands of saltine crackers Finally, in section 5.5 we deal with modeling ofunobserved heterogeneity among individuals, and modeling of dynamicchoice

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 05:20

... an ongoing, home-based personal interview examining a national representative sample of non-institutionalized population residing in main family dwellings (house- holds) of Spain and is mainly ... identify individuals at risk for physical inactivity. Background In recent years, there has been an increase of aging in the society [1]. The aging of the population can lead to an increase in the ... reported a trend towards an increased PA in individuals older than 60 years of age. In fact, the increase in PA has been found to be higher in people older t han 65 years than in mid- dle-aged population...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... activities in the marketing sphere. Like retailing, selling is often neglected because other areas of marketing seem more glamorous. But selling, like doing interviewing for marketing research, ... Persons involved in new product planning develop skills in understanding marketing research, sales forecasting, and promotional planning, In addition, persons working in new product planning develop ... bad timing, excessive optimism, inadequate research, insufficient investment, sloppy marketing, etc. Persons who specialize in new product planning can find opportunities in the marketing of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... drinking water include schistosmiasis, trachoma, intestinal Helminths, Hepatitis A, and arsenic poisoning. Procter & Gamble (P&G) first researched new water-purifying technolo- gies in ... funding. “Investors” in social businesses are really acting as philanthropists. Vikram Akula, who runs SKS, a $250 million microfinance firm in India, challenges Yunus’s view in the following ... triggering a revolution in business thinking, developing BOP strategies requires firms to get back to the basic principles and rules of eco- nomics and business. The context is different in BOP...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20