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Collaborative Consumption: what drives consumers’ Intention to Share?
No full textObjectives. The paper sheds light on the new phenomenon of collaborative consumption, highlighting aspects that influence consumers’ intention to share goods they own in surplus with other consumers.
Methodology. A survey was conducted on a Qualtrics panel in October 2016. A total of 357 completed and valid questionnaires were finally gathered. A Partial Least Squares Consistent Structural Equation Model (PLSc-SEM) was used to estimate parameters and structural paths.
Findings. Results show that environmental sustainability (SUS) and innovativeness (INN) have a positive effect on consumers’ sharing intention (SI). Moreover, results evidence a moderating effect of gender.
Research limits. Further research exploring the growing phenomenon of collaborative consumption is required. Moreover, although the sample is homogeneous in terms of gender and age of respondents and composed by actual users of the investigated service (Blablacar), it is not possible to generalize results.
Practical implications. Results provide important insights for the travel and tourism sector (pretty much influenced by the collaborative consumption phenomenon), as well as for providers of collaborative consumption services that, above all in recent years due to advances in technologies, are connecting consumers that share their surplus with those that intend to buy it.
Originality of the study. The field of the study is new and although recently many researchers are investigating the phenomenon of sharing between consumers, more studies are needed to understand aspects that are supporting the spread of Consumer to Consumer (C2C) services
Is the collaborative consumption the new buying? Social and economic aspects influencing collaborative consumption
No full textCollaborative consumption is becoming a phenomenon of great interest for both
scholars, marketers and public institutions. The spread of peer-to-peer sharing
platforms allows consumers to acquire products and services in alternative ways. This
aspect is redesigning a number of sectors, such as the transport and accommodation
marketplaces with the spread of new business models that provide consumers with
both economic (financial) and social (socialization, sustainable consumption) benefits.
Albeit in presence of an extensive emerging literature on the collaborative
consumption phenomenon, the effect of social and economic benefits on the usage of
collaborative products and services is lacking. Thus, using a Structural Equation
Model, tested on 385 Italian collaborative users, this study aims at identifying
antecedents of sharing intention (sustainable consumption and consumers’
innovativeness) and of the intention to use Blablacar (social and economic benefits).
Furthermore, the direct relationship between the two intentions is examined.
Implications are discussed
Premium Private Labels (PPLs): from food products to concept stores
No full textThe chapter describes a specific organizational case study of PPL extension from food products to concept stores, analyzing, with a qualitative approach, the PPL strategies of the Italian-based retailer: Conad Scrl, with particular reference to the launch and development of its PPL flagship stores, which are branded Sapori & Dintorni.
The case study analysis was performed by examining company reports and documents and conducting semi-structured interviews (in April 2017) with Conad’s Brand Manager and other important key informants involved in the PPL concept store planning, design, launch and management – namely the Conad’s Store Marketing Manager and the Store Proximity Development and Innovation Manager - in order to understand goals and objectives, with particular reference to the role of PPL food products.The chapter proceeds as follows. First, Conad’s company profile is briefly presented, followed by a discussion of the company’s PPL strategies and the specific case of a Sapori & Dintorni ice-cream concept store called ‘Cremerie Sapori & Dintorni’ . The chapter then moves to examine the organizational implications deriving from the case-study, as well as the possible implications for consumers
Logarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
De Canio, F., Martinelli, E., Pellegrini, D., & Nardin, G. (2019, June). Influencing Shopping Engagement Across Channels: The Role of Store Environment. In International Conference on Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing (pp. 106-113). Springer, Cham.
No full textErratum to: Effect of moderate red wine intake on cardiac prognosis after recent acute myocardial infarction of subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Diabetic Medicine, (2006), 23, 9, (974-981), 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01886.x)
No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
Symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in the Anderson lattice model with nearest-neighbor attractive interaction
No full textWe study an extended version of the Anderson lattice model including a density-density attractive interaction between correlated electrons on nearest-neighbor sites. Using a perturbative expansion around the atomic limit for the normal phase and the broken-symmetry Hartree-Fock scheme for the attractive potential, we examine which of the possible symmetries of the superconducting order parameter leads to the highest transition temperatures, in the case of nearest-neighbor hopping on a square lattice. We find that in a wide range of electron densities around the half filling, the increase of the on-site Coulomb f-repulsion U changes the pairing symmetry from d-wave into p- or into anisotropic s-wave, depending on the parameter regime. For large values of U compared to the bandwidth, the superconducting phase is suppressed, regardless of the symmetry of the order parameter. The effects introduced by variations in the hybridization coupling are also analyzed
Pestivirus infection in small ruminants: virological and histo-pathological findings
No full textPestivirus infection was detected in several flocks of sheep and goats located in the south of Italy by means of serological, virological and histopathological investigations. From four animals, two lambs and two kids, showing enteric symptoms which died during the first week of life, four pestivirus strains were isolated and typed as BVDV-like (three isolates) and "tipic" BDV strains (one isolate). The histopathological lesions consisted of areas of hypomyelination in the brain, and a slight depletion of thymic medullary lymphocytes associated with an increase in reticular cells
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