Beyond convenience: Understanding the multifaceted appeal of online grocery shopping applications [PDF]
Online consumer shopping patterns have changed significantly due to technological innovations. This current study examines the interplay between hedonic and utilitarian value and the role of perceived usefulness in determining consumers’ trust in ...
Prof Nombulelo Dilotsotlhe +1 more
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Customer relationship management and its perceived value from the perspective of SME owners/managers [PDF]
Recent years have seen the world economy wreaking havoc among businesses large and small. As such, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing multiple challenges.
Prof Johannes A Wiid
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The Measurement of Retail Output and the Retail Revolution [PDF]
The computerization of retailing has made price dispersion a norm in the United States, so that any given list price or transactions price is an increasingly imperfect measure of a product's resource cost. As a consequence, measuring the real output of retailers has become increasingly difficult.
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An adapted consumer decision-making styles inventory of millennial consumers [PDF]
Contemporary literature challenges use of American and European based consumer decision-making styles (CDMS) inventories to African developing economies.
Dr T Musasa, Dr P Moodley
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SPATIAL RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF OVERSAMPLED IMAGES USING REGRESSION DECOMPOSITION AND SYNTHESIS [PDF]
A new statistical model designed for regression analysis with a sparse design matrix is proposed. This new model utilizes the positions of the limited non-zero elements in the design matrix to decompose the regression model into sub-regression models ...
H.-W. Chen
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A conceptual framework for understanding how the green city philosophy translate into sustainable behaviour and performance: The case of retail businesses in Cape Town [PDF]
The concept of a “green city” is increasingly gaining momentum across the globe being driven by western values and ideologies. The green city philosophy does not only require investments in green infrastructure, but also adoption of sustainable behaviour
Dr Virimai Victor Mugobo +1 more
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The choice of public universities in a restructured and transforming Higher Education landscape: a student perspective [PDF]
The central tenet of the new Constitution of South Africa is to create equal and socially just economic order. This resulted in the higher education sector being restructured through incorporations and mergers.
Soobramoney Penceliah +2 more
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The impact of risk factors on South African consumers’ attitude towards online shopping
Orientation: The advances in technology have resulted in an increasing number of people choosing to shop online, globally. Despite the growing number of those shopping online and online retailers, most customers continue to avoid shopping online.
Khathutshelo M. Makhitha +1 more
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The effects of celebrity-brand congruence and publicity on consumer attitudes and buying behavior
Marketers use celebrity endorsements to make advertisements believable and to enhance consumer recognition of the brand name. However, once a direct link has been formed from a celebrity to a brand, the negative information about the celebrity may ...
Jae Han Jay Min +3 more
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A Novel Blockchain Framework for Industrial IoT Edge Computing
With the rapid development of industrial internet of thing (IIoT), the distributed topology of IIoT and resource constraints of edge computing conduct new challenges to traditional data storage, transmission, and security protection.
Xuesong Xu +3 more
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