Quantifying Consumer Preferences

Quantifying Consumer Preferences
Author: Daniel Slottje
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848553129

Demand studies and understanding consumer behavior remain two of the most important areas of analysis by practicing applied economists and econometricians. This book presents research on the estimation of demand systems and the measurement of consumer preferences.

Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations

Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations
Author: Gbadamosi, Ayantunji
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2019-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522579079

As developing nations increase their consumption rate, their relevance in the global marketplace grows. Existing assumptions and postulations about consumer consumption in various societies are being displaced largely due to the dynamic nature of the market. However, research has not been adequately devoted to explore the developments in consumer behavior in developing nations, which has resulted in numerous unanswered questions. Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations provides vital research on consumer behavior in developing countries and changes in the socio-cultural dimensions of marketing. While highlighting topics such as celebrity influence, marketing malpractices, and the adoption of e-government, this publication is ideally designed for researchers, advanced-level students, policymakers, and managers.

Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques

Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques
Author: Julien Delarue
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1782422587

Sensory analysis is an important tool in new product development. There has recently been significant development in the methods used to capture sensory perception of a product. Rapid Sensory Profiling Techniques provides a comprehensive review of rapid methods for sensory analysis that can be used as alternatives or complementary to conventional descriptive methods. Part one looks at the evolution of sensory perception capture methods. Part two focuses on rapid methods used to capture sensory perception, and part three covers their applications in new product development and consumer research. Finally, part four explores the applications of rapid methods in testing specific populations.

Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation

Foundations of Stated Preference Elicitation
Author: Moshe Ben-Akiva
Publisher: Foundations and Trends (R) in Econometrics
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781680835267

Provides stated preference data collection methods, discrete choice models, and statistical analysis tools that can be used to forecast demand and assess welfare impacts for new or modified products or services in real markets, and summarize the conditions under which the reliability of these methods has been demonstrated or can be tested.

Measuring Consumer Behavior in Hospitality for Enhanced Decision Making

Measuring Consumer Behavior in Hospitality for Enhanced Decision Making
Author: Ramos, Célia M.Q.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2023-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668466090

To improve the hospitality and tourism services provided to customers, it is necessary for managers to acquire knowledge about their customers’ and prospects’ journeys in order to give back to customers in the form of new offerings such as adequate products, services, and user design experiences according to the characteristics of potential consumers. Only in this way will it be possible to innovate consumer experience in the hospitality sector. Measuring Consumer Behavior in Hospitality for Enhanced Decision Making studies online consumer behavior along with other complementary marketing, hospitality, and tourism disciplines, thus gaining a holistic view of the current consumption during the COVID-19 context, which led to structural changes during the digital customer journey touchpoints. Covering topics such as e-commerce websites, price-setting strategies, and intellectual capital, this premier reference source is ideal for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, business leaders, government officials, marketers, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Consumer Preferences and Acceptance of Food Products

Consumer Preferences and Acceptance of Food Products
Author: Derek V. Byrne
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3039436953

The acceptance and preference of the sensory properties of foods are among the most important criteria determining food choice. Sensory perception and our response to food products, and finally food choice itself, are affected by a myriad of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The pressing question is, how do these factors specifically affect our acceptance and preference for foods, both in and of themselves, and in combination in various contexts, both fundamental and applied? In addition, which factors overall play the largest role in how we perceive and behave towards food in daily life? Finally, how can these factors be utilized to affect our preferences and final acceptance of real food and food products from industrial production and beyond for healthier eating? A closer look at trends in research showcasing the influence that these factors and our senses have on our perception and affective response to food products and our food choices is timely. Thus, in this Special Issue collection “Consumer Preferences and Acceptance of Food Products”, we bring together articles which encompass the wide scope of multidisciplinary research in the space related to the determination of key factors involved linked to fundamental interactions, cross-modal effects in different contexts and eating scenarios, as well as studies that utilize unique study design approaches and methodologies.

Measuring Utility

Measuring Utility
Author: Ivan Moscati
Publisher:
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199372764

Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning there has been debates about the meaning of utility as well as how to measure it. This book is an innovative investigation of how these arguments changed over time. Measuring Utility reconstructs economists' ideas and discussions about utility measurement from 1870 to 1985, as well as their attempts to measure utility empirically. The book brings into focus the interplay between the evolution of utility analysis, economists' ideas about utility measurement, and their conception of what measurement in general means. It also explores the relationships between the history of utility measurement in economics, the history of the measurement of sensations in psychology, and the history of measurement theory in general. Finally, the book discusses some methodological problems related to utility measurement, such as the epistemological status of the utility concept and its measures. The first part covers the period 1870-1910, and discusses the issue of utility measurement in the theories of Jevons, Menger, Walras and other early utility theorists. Part II deals with the emergence of the notions of ordinal and cardinal utility during the period 1900-1945, and discusses two early attempts to give an empirical content to the notion of utility. Part III focuses on the 1945-1955 debate on utility measurement that was originated by von Neumann and Morgenstern's expected utility theory (EUT). Part IV reconstructs the experimental attempts to measure the utility of money between 1950 and 1985 within the framework provided by EUT. This historical and epistemological overview provides keen insights into current debates about rational choice theory and behavioral economics in the theory of individual decision-making and the philosophy of economics.

Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems

Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems
Author: Daniel Baier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2004-11-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783540232216

The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in marketing, finance, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of applications demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques.

Emotional, Sensory, and Social Dimensions of Consumer Buying Behavior

Emotional, Sensory, and Social Dimensions of Consumer Buying Behavior
Author: Soares, Ana Maria
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2020-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799822222

Unprecedented changes in consumer shopping habits pose major challenges for retailers who need to consider the multidimensional nature of shopping in order to design and provide engaging consumer experiences. The intersection between in-store and online shopping is also fundamental to meet the fast-changing consumer behavior. Comprehending how environmental and sensory dimensions, leisure, entertainment, and social interactions influence shopper emotions may enhance the shopping experience. Emotional, Sensory, and Social Dimensions of Consumer Buying Behavior is an essential reference source that discusses methods for enhancing the shopping experience in an era of competition among shopping offline- and online-destinations, as well as predicting emerging changes in consumer behavior and shopping destinations and new technologies in retailing. Featuring research on topics such as consumer dynamics, experimental marketing, and retail technology, this book is ideally designed for retail managers, designers, advertisers, marketers, customer service representatives, merchandisers, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners.