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When Connection Feels Empty: Rethinking Consumer Loneliness Through Dual Presence in Digital Marketing

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital marketplaces sell connection, yet loneliness persists among their users. Marketing scholarship has largely examined loneliness as a consumer‐level deficit, studying how individuals compensate through consumption. How digital environments themselves structure the conditions under which loneliness is experienced has received less ...
Tianhao Yang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Fit Always Fit? The Paradox of Brand–Cause Misfit and Authenticity

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brand–cause research generally treats coherence between a brand and a social cause as a prerequisite for authenticity, leaving unexplained why some moderately misfitting initiatives are judged more authentic than expected. We develop a paradox‐based process account in which authenticity arises not only from coherence but also from consumers ...
Christina Papadopoulou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is early childhood exposure a key predictor of adulthood problematic gaming? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Compton SAH   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Shaping Liquid Crystal Rubbers by Chemical Potential Gradient

open access: yesMacromolecular Rapid Communications, EarlyView.
Depositing a low molecular weight liquid crystal drop onto a uniformly aligned LCE leads to non‐uniform swelling, enabling temporary shape changes and bending actuation. These deformations are quantitatively modeled for different alignment conditions, and methods to permanently lock desired shapes are explored.
Mahesha Kodithuwakku Arachchige   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Start‐Up Acquisitions by Dominant Firms Driving Innovation or Killing Competition?

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops a sequential model to examine start‐up acquisitions in markets with network externalities, incorporating a pre‐entry strategic buyout option that allows the incumbent to integrate the start‐up's innovation, followed by post‐entry expenditure on coordination advertising, and defensive pricing strategies.
Adele Whelan, Kate Hynes
wiley   +1 more source

A two-decade bibliometric analysis (2004-2024) of parental factors in the context of internet gaming disorder research. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychiatry
Novak V   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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