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Two Hesitant Multiplicative Decision-Making Algorithms and Their Application to Fog-Haze Factor Assessment Problem

open access: yesAlgorithms, 2018
Hesitant multiplicative preference relation (HMPR) is a useful tool to cope with the problems in which the experts utilize Saaty’s 1–9 scale to express their preference information over paired comparisons of alternatives. It is known that the
Lidan Pei, Feifei Jin
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying Consumer Tradeoffs Across Firm‐Level Strategic Positioning Dimensions: Evidence from US Craft Beer Consumers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Group Decision-Making Method with Adjustment Willingness in a Distributed Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Environment

open access: yesMathematics
This research aims to construct a group decision-making (GDM) method that considers decision makers’ (DMs’) willingness to adjust in a distributed hesitant fuzzy linguistic (DHFL) environment.
Xiao Liang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
wiley   +1 more source

Environment Friendly Sustainable End‐Of‐Life Solutions for Plastic Components in Indian Automotive Industries

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing concerns about the environmental and social consequences of plastics around the world, manufacturing industries are associated with business are focusing on sustainable end‐of‐life options‐based solutions which aim at increasing the product life cycle.
Sivakumar Kirupanandan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Interdisciplinary Review of the Gaslighting Literature and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gaslighting is increasingly discussed in organizational contexts, yet its meaning, boundaries, and process remain unclear within management and organizational scholarship. Although research on gaslighting has expanded across multiple disciplines, existing work is conceptually fragmented and difficult to integrate, limiting cumulative theory ...
Paula A. Kincaid, Samantha C. O. Stalion
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Critical Impeding Factors of Gamification Adoption: An ISM‐MICMAC Analysis

open access: yesGlobal Business and Organizational Excellence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gamification is a transformative technology that attracts consumers and motivates them toward desired actions through fun and engagement. Despite its growing popularity and influence on user behavior, gamification faces significant challenges in acceptance and implementation due to behavioral, technological, economic, and regulatory factors ...
Wamika Sharma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing FDI Motivations Through OLIP: Explaining Private Engagement for Sustainable Development in PPPs

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The drivers of firms' participation in fragile markets have become increasingly complex. Under such conditions, the conventional explanation focusing on incentives within the OLI framework—ownership, location, and internalization advantages—proves insufficient.
Yu Ri Kim, Seo Yun Choi, Taewoo Roh
wiley   +1 more source

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