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Car purchase decisions

PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Proceedings Vol.1: Book of Summaries (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37199), 2002
Summary form only given. This paper demonstrates how using multicriteria decision models and pairwise comparison tools can assist car buyers select the car that meets their needs and emotions. A software demo is also presented with an easy to use and deploy tool that automates the decision process.
A. Yato   +5 more
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Packaging and purchase decisions

British Food Journal, 2004
The importance of packaging design as a vehicle for communication and branding is growing in competitive markets for packaged food products. This research utilized a focus group methodology to understand consumer behavior toward such products and how packaging elements can affect buying decisions. Visual package elements play a major role, representing
Pinya Silayoi, Mark Speece
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The Meat Purchase Decision

British Food Journal, 1993
Reports on an investigation, using econometric techniques, of the household demand for meat as two separate decisions: whether or not to buy meat, and how much to buy. Based on single adult households in the Family Expenditure Survey, it highlights the importance of age, gender, employment class and education of householder, as well as the presence of ...
M. Burton, M. Tomlinson, T. Young
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INVENTORY DECISIONS WITH DECREASING PURCHASING COSTS [PDF]

open access: possibleAsia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2012
Costs of many items drop systematically throughout their life-cycles, due to advances in technology and competition. Motivated by the management of service parts for some high-tech products, this paper studies inventory decisions for such items. In a periodic review setting with stochastic demand, we model the purchasing costs of successive periods as
XIANGPEI HU, HUIMIN WANG, YUNZENG WANG
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Consumer Purchase Decisions

Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, 1989
Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1989, Vol 34(2), 183–184. Reviews the book, Why People Buy by John O'Shaughnessy (see record 1987-97848-000). This work undertakes the task of concisely elaborating the bases of consumer purchase decisions to a nonacademic ...
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Music CD Purchase Decisions

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2006
The increasing ease and frequency of digital music piracy and the global nature of the music industry make it important to understand why consumers in different national markets purchase music CDs. Study 1 identified 5 factors underlying CD purchasing, noting these differences between British and Japanese participants.
North, Adrian, Oishi, Atsuko
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Worker Decisions to Purchase Health Insurance

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2001
Studying worker health insurance choices is usually limited by the absence of price data for workers who decline their employer's offer. This paper uses a new Medical Expenditure Panel Survey file which links household and employer survey respondents, supplying data for both employer insurance takers and declines.
L J, Blumberg   +2 more
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