Elina Närvänen  Hannu Saarijärvi  Olli Simanainen 《International Journal of Consumer Studies》2013,37(5):569-576

The area of convenience food has become an insightful context for studying consumption because it is full of tensions and contradictions. This context has attracted an ample amount of research on buying motivations, consumer attitudes and preferences. However, the practices of consuming convenience food have remained a rather unexplored area of research. The purpose of this study is to identify and dissect consumers' online conversation practices related to convenience food. Consequently, the study uses a practice theoretical approach to analyse consumers' online conversations about the topic. Three different categories and nine different practices within them are identified. The practices are further dissected to reveal their tension‐increasing and tension‐relieving characteristics. Finally, the article draws conclusions regarding practice theory and convenience food consumption.  相似文献   

    

Bradley W. Benson  Wallace N. Davidson III  Hongxia Wang  Dan L. Worrell 《Financial Management》2011,40(1):39-81

We propose that high‐quality corporate governance may mitigate agency costs related to value‐destroying investments in stakeholder management (SM). Using an unbalanced panel of 9,051 firm‐year observations for 1,631 firms, we find that deviations from expected stakeholder management (ESM) are increasing in chief executive officer (CEO) portfolio delta. We find, however, that deviations from ESM are negatively related to proxies for effective board monitoring. We also document that the effect of governance mechanisms varies by industry (consumer or industrial orientation) and SM dimension. The results indicate that corporations with good governance pursue shareholder value maximization while constraining unnecessary investment in stakeholders.  相似文献   

    

J. Lowell Mooney  Harry R. Wright Jr.  Leslee N. Higgins 《Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance》2010,22(1):63-73

Looming on the horizon is a long‐term threat that could endanger your company's very existence. That threat is a coming shortage of workers. But there's more bad news: the employees now entering the workplace, dubbed Generation Y, will be very difficult and expensive to retain. What must your company do to attract and keep this newest generation of workers? And is their addiction to Web social networking a problem or a strategy? © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

    

C.N.V. Krishnan  Peter H. Ritchken  James B. Thomson 《Journal of Financial Intermediation》2010,19(4):529-563

Predictions of firm-level credit spreads based on the current spot and forward credit spreads can be significantly improved upon by using the information contained in the shape of the credit-spread curve. However, the current credit-spread curve is not a sufficient statistic for predicting future out-of-sample credit spreads; predictions can be significantly improved upon by exploiting the information contained in the shape of the riskless yield curve. In the presence of credit-spread and riskless factors, other macroeconomic, marketwide, and firm-specific risk variables do not significantly improve predictions of credit spreads. These results have important implications for credit-spreads modeling as well as for better understanding corporate capital structure and risk management policies.  相似文献   

    

Berna Karali  Jeffrey H. Dorfman  Walter N. Thurman 《期货市场杂志》2010,30(9):846-873

We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oats futures prices across different delivery horizons via a smoothed Bayesian estimator. We find that futures price volatilities in these markets are affected by inventories, time to delivery, and the crop progress period and that there are important differences in the effects across delivery horizons. We also find that price volatility is higher before the harvest starts in most cases compared to the volatility during the planting period. These results have implications for hedging, options pricing, and the setting of margin requirements. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 30:846–873, 2010  相似文献   

    

Hongjoo Woo  Nancy N. Hodges 《Family and consumer sciences research journal / American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences》2015,44(2):127-142

Education fever, the national obsession with the attainment of education in Korea, has received attention from the media and researchers. However, research on Korean parents’ investment in private education for their preschool children is limited. The purpose of this study was to explore what the consumption of private education means to Korean parents, and to identify factors motivating their consumption behavior. Focus group interviews with 23 Korean mothers of preschool children were conducted to identify why private education was important to them. The results of the interviews indicated that social norms emphasizing education, the social mobility acquired through education, and the mothers’ dissatisfaction with social services were the key social factors motivating the mothers. Experiences from the mothers’ own childhood as well as household resources were key personal factors.  相似文献   

    

Suzanne N. Cory  Dana Kerr  Jerry D. Todd 《Risk Management & Insurance Review》2007,10(1):121-136

To attract students to the risk management and insurance profession, strategies need to be developed to overcome biases in their perceptions of the profession. This study attempts to determine some of those perceptions of students—specifically a group of business career high school students and a group of college students enrolled in an introduction to business course—about the personality traits of insurance professionals. A Personality Factor Questionnaire previously used extensively in other research was used to measure differences in student perceptions of personality profiles of different professions. We also measured how student characteristics such as age, sex, and expected college major influence student perceptions of these traits. The overall general conclusion was that perceptions of the profession are not as negative as many imagine, but do require some substantive work to improve, even among students seeking business careers.  相似文献   

    

STEVEN N.S. CHEUNG 《Contemporary economic policy》1998,16(2):125-135

Editor's Note: The First Annual Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles, November 17, I997  相似文献   

    

P.N. JUNANKAR 《Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy》1997,16(4):65-70

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O. N. Uçan  B. Sen  M. A. Albora  A. Özmen 《International Review of Economics》2000,5(1):1-13

In this paper the authors introduce a novel approach to stochastic image processing, denoted as Differential Markov Random Field (DMRF), which has been applied to gravity anomaly separation problems. The advantages of the method are that it introduces only little distortion into the shape of the original image and that it is not affected significantly by factors such as the overlap power spectra of regional and residual fields. Testing of the proposed meth using synthetic examples gave excellent results.  相似文献