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Consumers’ Personality and Compulsive Buying Behavior: The Role of Hedonistic Shopping Experiences and Gender in Mediating-Moderating Relationships.
No full textAlthough existing research suggests that personality plays an important role in explaining compulsive buying behavior, there is still potential space to diagnose the theoretical mediational mechanisms underlying these effects or the extent to which these relationships vary across different consumer demographic groups. Indeed, the role of specific personality traits on hedonistic shopping experiences and compulsive buying still awaits an in-depth examination and clarification. Thus, the present research contributes to existing knowledge by: (1) examining hedonistic shopping experiences (HSE) as a mediating mechanism on compulsive buying (CB); and (2) investigating the role of gender as a moderating variable. Using a sample of 363 adults and data derived from the US market, we confirmed the role of hedonistic shopping experiences, a central trait, in mediating the effects of cardinal traits (i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness and agreeableness), on compulsive buying, a surface trait. Specifically, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience exerted a more indirect and positive influence on compulsive buying, while conscientiousness and agreeableness showed a stronger direct and negative relationship with hedonistic shopping experiences and compulsive buying. In addition, neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience were a stronger driver of compulsive buying for women than for men, while conscientiousness and agreeableness jointly decreased the importance of hedonistic shopping experiences, and more strongly inhibited compulsive buying for women than for men. The research findings offer important theoretical, public policy and marketing implications
Crack Taxes and the Dangers of Insidious Regulatory Taxes
Get PDFAn unheralded weapon in the War on Drugs can be found in state tax codes: many states impose targeted taxes on individuals for the possession and sale of controlled substances. These “crack taxes” provide state officials with a powerful means of sanctioning individuals without providing those individuals the protections of the criminal law. Further, these taxes largely escape public scrutiny, which can contribute to overregulation and uneven enforcement.
The controlled substance taxes highlight the allure to lawmakers of using tax law to regulate behavior, but also the potential dangers of doing so. Surprisingly, the judiciary has an underappreciated role in creating the allure of regulatory taxes. Because courts apply less scrutiny to taxes than to other types of laws, regulatory taxes get a blank check when challenged, incentivizing their use. Courts must reconfigure the way they approach regulatory taxes to remove the judicially-created incentive for insidious regulatory taxes like controlled substance taxes
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Stereotypic beliefs contribute to gender disparities in the field of economics
Get PDFWhy are women under-represented in the field of economics relative to men? We propose that stereotypes associated with economists contribute to women’s interest in the field. We test the predictions that economists are stereotypically associated with low levels of communion and high levels of agency and that this type of stereotype content is associated with women’s lower interest in the field. In Study 1 (N = 883), stereotypes associated with people in the field of economics were masculine, characterized with low levels of communion and high levels of agency. In Study 2 (N = 182), undergraduate women were less interested than men in majoring in fields that share the same pattern of stereotyping found for economists in Study 1. The results from this study have important implications for increasing young women’s interest and representation in the field of economics
A Review of \u27Big Tech\u27 Antitrust Litigation in the Federal Courts
Get PDFAntitrust litigation in state and federal courts against the so-called ‘Big Tech’ companies is currently ongoing between coalitions of state attorneys general, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and four large American technology companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. In this paper, I review the complaints and the criteria that will be used by judges and juries to assess whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google engaged in anticompetitive conduct. The courts will use the consumer welfare standard, rule of reason analysis, and other legal precedents in antitrust law and competition policy to prove harm. In each case, litigants will be asked to present evidence and develop theories of market definition, market concentration, market structure, and exclusionary agreements for different components of the digital economy
Examining Community Engagement Strategies in Richmond, VA Nonprofits Addressing Food Insecurity: A Case Study
Get PDFFood in America is often a reflection of values, cultures and customs. Food choices give way to your upbringing, geographic location and even socioeconomic status. In the United States, 8.6 million adults live in households with very low food security. As nonprofits begin to shift from a charity-based structure in addressing food insecurity to an equity-based approach, it is important to understand how they are effectively engaging the community. Community engagement is a fundamental practice for nonprofits to build trust, foster relationships and empower the community. Though the concept of community engagement has been an important theme across disciplines, there is limited research on its impact on organizations addressing food insecurity. This study helps to address this gap in the research by collecting and analyzing data from semi-structured interviews of nonprofit leaders addressing food insecurity via food banks, urban agriculture initiatives, and in the food access space. This study reports the findings, implications, and recommendations gained from an analysis of the interview data categorizing various community engagement strategies used by food non-profits
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility
No full textEntrepreneurship involves cooperative efforts in which multiple stakeholders and resources are brought together to develop a valuable product or service. Accordingly, one key process through which entrepreneurs make progress exploiting their opportunities is by identifying, selecting, enrolling, and coordinating a network of stakeholders. However, although there is a widespread realization that bringing new ventures to life requires multiple stakeholders, precious little academic research has taken a holistic approach to stakeholder engagement. In this special issue we: (a) suggest that stakeholder theory provides a novel lens for viewing the critical entrepreneurial behavior of engaging stakeholders—and taking shared responsibility for an unmet opportunity, (b) describe the intriguing articles that encompass this special issue, and (c) offer our thoughts on directions for future research at the intersection of stakeholder theory and entrepreneurship
Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: A Conversation on Embodied Decolonial Creation with Alicia Díaz & Patricia Herrera
No full textThis text is a result of a collaborative process orbiting a collaborative project, a conversation stemming from events centered on Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: Women in Resistance Shall Not Be Moved. This award-winning film² performance/dance film—most recently presented in March 2022 at the University of Richmond and in November 2021 at the College of William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum—is a product of a collaborative ethos in which all participants are recognized as co-creators. One of its main messages is a focus on linkages, the entre [between], that suggests what powerful women like Luisa Capetillo called for and worked toward