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Expensive medical devices, especially in the areas of orthopedics, and cardiology, have a significant impact on hospital costs and the delivery of high-quality services. These medical supplies are known as physician preference items (PPIs), as they a...

Objectives: Hospital efficiency provides a systems-level perspective for identifying unrealized capacity to improve care delivery, quality, and patient safety. This study evaluated relative technical efficiency among U.S. short-term acute care hospit...

This study examines consumers’ intentions to purchase plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA), which have been created to protect animal rights, the global environment, and consumers’ health. Data from 319 Korean consumers were analyzed to e...

In most consumer markets, higher prices generally imply increased quality. For example, in the automobile, restaurant, hospitality, and airline industries, higher pricing generally conveys a signal of complexity and superiority of a service or produc...

Background/Objectives: U.S. hospitals increasingly rely on contract labor to address persistent workforce shortages; however, the downstream implications for patient experience performance remain underexplored. This study examines whether contract la...

Internet memes increasingly move from social media into physical product packaging, yet little is known about how consumers respond when online cultural symbols become package design cues. Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Response framewo...

As China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) market shifts from basic electrification toward competition over integrated technological capability and in-cabin user experience, understanding how consumers evaluate green technology and smart-cockpit confi...

This study is based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and focuses on university students in South Korea and China. It explores how the consumption value of sustainable fashion products affects consumers’ purchase intentions. Additionally,...

This article analyzes consumer intentions to purchase cannabis-based skincare cosmetics by considering the role of human values, environmental awareness, and attitudes toward cannabis-based skincare cosmetics and their industrial use. The literature...

(1) Background: AI technology has been deeply applied to online shopping platforms to provide more accurate and personalized services for consumers. It is of great significance to study the different functional experiences of AI for consumers to impr...

Changing consumption behavior can offer co-benefits in reduction of environmental issues and encouraging improvements to environmentally friendly or sustainable production. We propose a novel value-social norm-enjoyment-based motivation (VSE) model a...

The e-commerce pre-sale model for apparel is a kind of marketing method for retailers to generate actual consumption through online consumers' payment of deposits or full payments. The online apparel's re-sale model, an effective competition, can eff...

This study develops a model based on perceived effectiveness of e-commerce institutional mechanisms (PEEIM) and trust-based mechanisms to explain how PEEIM, product monetary value (MV), product evaluation cost (PEC), and enjoyment influence trust onl...

This study examines how retailers’ in-store green promotion influences consumers’ repurchase intention toward green food products in Vietnamese supermarkets. Although prior research has examined green perceived value, green trust, and gre...

Scope 3.1 emissions from purchased goods and services often represent a substantial share of corporate greenhouse gas footprints, yet their quantification is characterized by high uncertainty and limited transparency. In practice, organizations frequ...

As interest in sustainable food consumption grows, local food has emerged as a key strategy for enhancing environmental sustainability, regional economic vitality, and food system resilience. This study examines how consumers’ sustainable value...

Although Chinese consumers show an increasing acceptance of intelligent driving, their purchase intentions have declined. Advanced intelligent driving technologies play a crucial role in helping users transition from traditional driving to fully auto...

Sustainable consumption has become a global priority, yet the factors that encourage people to adopt environmentally friendly purchasing behavior differ across cultures and technologies. This study explores how environmental knowledge, environmental...

In response to the increasing global emphasis on sustainability, electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as promising alternative vehicles. Grounded in the Value–Attitude–Behaviour (VAB) model and the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this...

This study models the purchasing behavior of specialty coffee by 114 coffee shops across 15 cities in nine states in Mexico. Simple and multilevel mixed-effects logistic models are tested. Our models extend the framework used in prior research. We mo...

Despite Türkiye’s high agricultural potential, consumer interest in organic foods remains limited. Understanding the motivations of Turkish consumers who prefer organic foods is crucial for expanding the domestic organic market. This resea...

Despite the growing popularity of digital artworks that use nonfungible tokens (NFTs), systematic frameworks for analyzing the content characteristics driving NFT artworks’ creation, sale, and collection remain underdeveloped. Drawing on key in...

Concern about the sustainability of traditional single-use plastic pots is growing as the adverse environmental effects of plastic use become increasingly apparent worldwide. Research shows economic and eco-friendly alternatives to replace plastics a...

Against the strategic backdrop of China’s efforts to advance the deep integration of culture and tourism, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has become an important vehicle for cultural preservation and market-oriented revitalization. However,...

Live streaming commerce delivers conversion rates up to ten times higher than conventional online stores, yet research on the psychological mechanisms behind that lift has tested platform features in isolation, through single-mediator pathways. This...

Growing consumer awareness of environmental and health issues has increased demand for sustainable products, yet a persistent gap remains between positive attitudes and actual purchasing behavior. This study addresses inconsistent findings in prior l...

This study examines the behavioral mechanism of sustainable consumption through which greenwashing (GW) perception influences consumers’ intention to purchase green food, with a particular focus on Chinese consumers. Grounded in the value-based...

As global awareness of environmental and social challenges continues to rise, companies are increasingly re-evaluating how they connect with consumers. This study investigates the role of digital marketing in promoting more sustainable consumer behav...

Purpose: Sustainable herbal food products represent a growing yet under-researched segment of the green food market, particularly in fragile developing economies where consumer awareness and food marketing infrastructures remain nascent. Drawing on a...

Advancing urban sustainability transitions through effective environmental policies requires understanding how residents perceive and respond to policies. While perceived policy effectiveness (PPE) has been studied in waste management and recycling p...

Digital procurement systems expand opportunities for public scrutiny. However, their accountability implications depend on how administrative records are linked, interpreted, and used. This study examines the relationship between strengthened procure...

Stress-reducing beverages represent a growing segment of the functional beverage market. Stress is a particularly salient concern among young consumers, who are also the category’s primary early adopters, making them the key target segment for...

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has lately been utilized in a number of studies to investigate why people reject or adopt new technologies like mobile commerce or e-learning. However, several studies have found weaknesses in TAM’s ability...

With the maturity of haptic technology and complex systems, tactile interaction has gradually become realized through specific hardware and software configurations in the e-commerce and business industries. As an innovative form depending on haptic s...

Rapid increases in distributed photovoltaic (PV) penetration have brought additional challenges to distribution network planning and operation. Meanwhile, flexible interconnection devices such as soft open point integrated with battery energy storage...

Background: This paper examines the economic implications of market segmentation on consumer purchasing behavior with a particular emphasis on intertemporal pricing strategies in dynamic markets. Methods: In order to analyze optimal discount rates an...

Since FY 2013, as a part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) program, the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program has adjusted Medicare’s payments to hospitals based on the total performance score of the hospital. First, the program reduces...

Purchase intention has been acknowledged as an important factor influencing businesses’ sales performances and sustainability. Thus, finding factors that influence purchase intention is essential to all relevant businesses. Based on the current...

Environmental policy and firms’ expenditure on energy and other purchased inputs may both be relevant to industrial performance. However, it remains unclear whether greater environmental policy stringency is systematically associated with such...

As concerns around today’s environmental problems increase, there is a growing need for consumers to accelerate their sustainable behaviors relating to product disposal such as product reuse and product life extension. The purpose of this study...

Understanding the motivations that stimulate homebuyers’ green purchasing behavior can increase market demand for green products, especially considering the comparably low market share of green products worldwide. In this context, various studi...

The intense competition among fresh food e-commerce platforms in China has reduced the market share of the leading firms. This study aims to establish a model framework based on brand knowledge, perceived value, brand trust, and purchase intention to...

This study aimed to make an empirical analysis of the effects that the selection attributes of subscription services have on purchase intentions and continuous use intentions, based on the perceived value of digital platform-based subscription servic...

This study, based on social information processing theory (SIPT), investigates the relationships of Green Corporate Social Responsibility (Green CSR), innovation value co-creation, brand authenticity, brand perception, word-of-mouth intention (WOM) a...

The purpose of this study is to integrate the theoretical base of green purchasing by using the signaling theory approach to green marketing. Since previous studies do not combine relevant factors from the perspective of Signaling Theory and Attitude...

A museum’s core activities traditionally focus on such areas as collections’ care, exhibitions and scholarship. Income generation, including retail activities, is considered secondary. Academic research into museums’ merchandise, especially into the...

In the context of people’s gradually rising consumption levels and the urgent need to upgrade the tourism market, the continuous homogenization of tourism souvenirs is beginning to seriously affect the shopping experience of tourism tourists. T...

This systematic review research has two objectives: (a) to identify Green Marketing (GM) practices related to the key variables of consumer purchasing behavior, and (b) to present a model for the generation of sustainable value by companies based on...

Environmental and health problems have increased the interest of researchers and practitioners in investigating the factors that affect organic food consumption. However, little attention has been paid to the actual organic food buying behavior, part...

While ESG goals are now central to corporate strategy, disclosures often fail to engage consumers. This study identifies which message elements in ESG goal advertisements best translate disclosures into consumer responses through social media. Using...