ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00505.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00506.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

As our economy now operates, consumer credit is an essential ingredient in the mass merchandising of goods and services, credit sources and users share a joint responsibility in orginating credit and both share in its beneficial effects. Thsoe had debt losses which occur are small relative to sales and are absorbed by consumers who pay in full. In this mileu, abridging the right of bankruptcy would provide negligible benefits to consumers as a whole and to the economy. It would create serious inequity between (1) consumers who avoid debt through procrastination and those who avoid it through bankruptcy and (2) consumers and business firms. The first inequity would be accentuated by present differences in state laws governing debt collection. It would still exist, however, if all states had a uniform collection law. Consumer right to bankruptcy is a needed safety‐value in our credit‐oriented econ

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00507.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00508.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The variability of product quality and performance between industries, firms, and products causes the buyer to be uncertain of receiving a desired level of future utility. The uncertainty experienced by the buyer results from the conditions of the purchase decision as well as the effect which anticipations and doubts about the quality of future product performance have on that decision.This paper diverges from past risk research by considering the origin and sources of a specific type of risk, namelyperformancerisk, and by considering the impact which decisions and activities of the private and public sectors,extraneous to the individual consumer, have on the level of performance risk perceived by buyers.

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00509.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Management of family consumer responsibilities is largely a mental process through which even the most severely physically disabled homemaker can contribute meaningfully to family life. To what extent do physically disabled homemakers recognize and implement the role of consumer‐manager as a major avenue for contributing toward management of the home? What are some of the management problems which are unique to disabled homemakers as they attempt to pursue activities germane to the management of family consumership? Finally, in designing rehabilitation programs intended to help physically disabled homemakers develop increased managerial ability, what consumer competencies should be attributed significant priority relevant to curriculum development? The following article provides empirical evidence which affords insight into these question

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00510.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The retail food market in Edmonton, Alberta represents an unusual market to study. The basic problem inherent in this metropolitan market area of 500,000 people, is the dominance of a single retail food chain whose food sales represent up to 65 percent of total food sales.Conventional economic theory would normally lead to the conclusion that market performance would be improved by a direct attack on the structure of the market which in turn would involve the absolution of a highly successful retail operation. However, the application of monopoly anti‐trust laws was certainly not an alternative available to the research team, even if it was considered to be a feasible solution to the problem. Therefore an attempt was made by the authors to observe the impact of improved consumer market information on corporate performance.The following article documents the research and leads towards a time honored conclusion that additional market information would improve consumer welfare in a meaningful manne

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00511.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In this paper the markets in which individual consumers buy goods and services are analyzed in accordance with the economic theory of market organization. The poor market performance characteristics identified by those in the consumerism movement are found to be consistent with expectations based on this theory. The possibility of achieving efficient market performance through consumer education programs is rejected. At best it would be an inefficient means to the desired end. Several alternative means are suggested for further consideration. They involve changes in the rules under which the economic system operates and therefore will not be easy to achieve.

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00512.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Of the major issues dominating the public interest in recent times, perhaps consumerism is by far the most vital one. Reaching the forefront during the second half of the past decade, consumerism has drawn considerable attention from virtually all groups having a stake in the performance of the market place. The interest of the academic community in consumerism is no exception. For business educators, the prevalence of consumer protests and dissatisfaction with the market behavior yields a number of compelling but, nonetheless, crucial issues. For instance, should a business school try to improve its existing image—that of preparing its student to be a shrewd businessman with one pervasive criterion in mind, namely, profit maximization? Or, should business schools adopt the concept of training its graduate to be an enlightened businessman who attempts to maximize the profit of his firm, but in the context of what is best for the whole society? Should a business school play the role of a mediator between consumers and the business sector at large? It is to these and similar questions that the present investigation is directe

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00513.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article discusses the problem of which group—business teachers, social studies teachers, or home economics teachers—is more consumer oriented and thus a more appropriate choice for the teaching of consumer education. In this study, each of these three groups of teachers was surveyed to determine which was more consumer oriented in attitude and which was more consumer oriented in terms of their appraisal of the educational relevance of consumer iss

ISSN:0022-0078    

DOI:10.1111/j.1745-6606.1972.tb00514.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY