When people learn that a charitable contribution they earmarked for a specific project was used for another cause, they feel betrayed – and often punish the charity, new research from Washington State University indicates. Those donors were less likely to give money to the charity in the future or do volunteer work for the organization....
Researchers from the University of Southern California, Columbia, London Business School, George Washington University, University of Colorado-Boulder, and University of California Irvine published a provocative new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines the relatively narrow impact of consumer research and suggests ways to change that situation. The study, forthcoming in the March 2020 issue of...
A gradual approach to increasing the stakes of group coordination projects can improve overall team performance, according to a new research paper featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York. “What drives successful group coordination is important because team coordination is ubiquitous in many work settings, such as in medical professions, in law...
The presence of technology startups can drive economic growth for their home cities. So how can cities better appeal to entrepreneurs? A new study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin shows the connections they can offer matter more than big money. The research shows that today’s successful tech...
Fashion – from Louis Vuitton and Hermeś bags to Off-White t-shirts and Chanel shoes – has once again topped the list of some of the most heavily-targeted types of goods by counterfeiters, and some of the most frequently purchased types of products by consumers. That is what the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
A whopping $2.4 billion-worth of imports from France are set to be taxed by the U.S., putting coveted luxury goods in the crossfire of a bi-national fight over a new French digital services tax. In a statement on Monday, the Trump administration threatened a 100 percent increase in French import taxes in connection with its...
From the methods used to make its most boundary-pushing shoe soles to the ornamental design of the knitted uppers that can be found in its Flyknit technology, Nike’s arsenal of utility and design patents is sweeping. In addition to using those legal protections to try to stomp down on competitors if they veer too close to...
A researcher from Georgetown University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing, which examines how consumers approach sustainable buying decision making with on-demand production, where they are given power early in the development cycle. The study, forthcoming in the January issue of the Journal of Marketing, is titled “Who Receives Credit or Blame?...
If one wants to calculate the environmental impact of purchasing a product or services, they must consider the role of the capital assets that went into their production — machinery, factories, IT, vehicles, and roads — and the energy and materials required to create those assets. For instance, any assessment of the environmental “footprint” of...
It pays to be the boss. According to new research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, it pays even more to be an incumbent CEO working with a newly hired chief financial officer (CFO). Fuqua researchers studied more than 20 years of data from S&P 1500 firms and found CEOs took home an average...
