Academic literature on the topic 'Consumer Value-Beliefs'

This chapter focuses on the well-documented misalignment between energy-related behaviors and the personal values of consumers, which has become a major source of angst among policymakers. Despite widespread pro-environmental or green attitudes, consumers frequently purchase non-green alternatives. The chapter identifies 50 theoretical approaches that can be divided almost equally into two types: those that emphasize beliefs, attitudes, and values; and those that also consider contextual factors and social norms. Three principles of intervention are recommended: provide credible and targeted i

This study combines the dual-process theory (DPT) and the uncertainty reduction theory (URT) to examine how on-line consumer reviews affect consumer uncertainty reduction and value perceptions in order to understand whether consumer attitudes will be influenced by on-line consumer reviews and if relationships are built between consumers and companies as a result. The results indicated that argument quality, recommendation sidedness, source credibility, confirmation of prior beliefs, and recommendation ratings have a positive effect on the uncertainty reduction of consumers towards the businesses under consideration. Since uncertainty reduction has an effect on value perception, this study suggests that companies provide on-line consumer reviews on their websites to increase consumer uncertainty reduction and to improve consumer value perception of their companies.

Chapter 3 traces the development of health systems in middle- and high-income countries since the Second World War and notes the trends that have led to the development of contemporary health systems. The authors summarize the major trends in healthcare—the benefits, costs, public attitudes and beliefs, and consumer responses to medical care. Health has improved, more citizens are able to access healthcare, standards of care have risen, and the advance of scientific medicine is stunning. The authors reflect on the forces that have led to the current successes and raise upcoming challenges in improving health and healthcare. Foremost among these are concerns about rising costs and value-for-money of health systems, which pose sustainability challenges to health systems in all countries.

Producers are firms that have a direct economic stake in the value of the goods they bring to market. These are distinct from the individuals who create the good: creators, such as artists, musicians, and writers. Creators rarely take their creations directly to market; in most cases, a third-party firm—a producer firm—vets and collates many different creations to present to the consumer. Elsewhere, fashion designers and chefs often start their own firms—creator firms—that sell only their own creations. All producers must bridge the worlds of art and business, which entails three challenges: market making, building and maintaining trust between managers and creators, and reputation building. Creator firms may be more likely to introduce content innovations, and producer firms may introduce delivery innovations, while some innovations may combine both. Inducing consumption of these innovations requires changing beliefs, making it the most challenging kind of pioneer entrepreneurship.

This chapter explores Millennials and their characteristics and imperative influence in changing purchasing behavior, consumer preferences, and how transactions are made. It also highlights why Millennials are a significant generation to explore. The general findings indicate Millennials are a significant generation because technology will be a prominent disruptor to look out for, and Millennials will be the ones steering the ship. Additional findings indicate the Millennials are value driven and strive to work for organizations that are ethical, prefer being empowered, and remain loyal as long as it is within their career trajectory. They also like to be engaged through regular feedback, and they strive towards rebuilding institutions for greater impact. Millennials' aspirations in achieving higher purpose and understanding of life stems from their spirituality and genuine care for people, communities, and values that affect their attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. At the tail end, the chapter implores the importance in revolutionizing education for future generations.

This introductory chapter provides an outline of some of the ideological, political, and institutional structures and contexts within which the plays under discussion in this study were produced and consumed. Shakespeare's stagings of history were peculiarly intense in their concentration on the doings of kings and princes. In an emergently absolutist personal monarchy and during a period in which issues of succession and legitimacy were much on people's minds, plays that were so insistently about kings and queens were also quintessentially political plays. As a great deal of recent work has shown, such political concerns could well structure and, in their turn, be structured by, parallel sets of concerns and beliefs about the workings of the social order and the gender hierarchy. Political narratives then became useful ways to figure and interrogate the dynamics of economic exchange and value determined by the market or the workings of the gender hierarchy.

This chapter continues to subject a series of unexamined beliefs on respect and criminal justice to critical scrutiny and challenge. There is a shift in focus to prison mealtime, whose pivotal role in shaping the experiences of prisoners has been considerably understated. The chapter is prefaced with a short commentary on prison mealtime in historical context. It is then structured around three key stages of contemporary prison mealtime—preparation, consumption, and resistance—which I propose as organising categories for critiquing the practice. When the authorities treat respect as a weak side-constraint on the pursuit of instrumental outcomes rather than a foundational value of the regime itself, it undermines those responsible for preparing food, degrades prisoners who have no choice but to consume it, and exacerbates the experiences of those who—for reasons of religious belief, physical or mental ill-health, or in protest—resist or refuse it.

Pharmaceutical care is a concept that involves identifying, solving and preventing drug-related problems, such as drug interactions, with regards to a patient's drug therapy. Cancer patients are at high risk of drug interactions due to the complex pharmacological profiles and narrow therapeutic indices of anticancer drugs. Furthermore, these patients tend to consume complementary and alternative medicines, thus predisposing them to a risk of herb-drug interactions. This can impact their adherence to anticancer therapies. Various factors are involved in medication non-adherence, such as the cost of medications and patients' beliefs about the value of their treatments. There is a need to understand the impact of non-adherence and optimize intervention strategies from a macro-, meso-, and micro-level. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of pharmaceutical care and the impact of oncology drug interactions and medication non-adherence in patients with cancer. The chapter will also provide an insight to the factors influencing medication adherence and the intervention strategies that have targeted non-adherence.

Chapter 7 presents three high-level insights that can be drawn from this book’s look at a health system from a systems thinking perspective. First, all health systems suffer from one of systems theory’s classic descriptive models called The Tragedy of the Commons, in which a scarce resource is consumed when a collective benefit (e.g., health insurance) is subsidized and its price to the user is less than the cost to produce it. Second, when viewed from a systems perspective of value-for-money, most health systems face competing objectives—satisfying individual’s demands for maximizing their own medical care and providing healthcare as a fundamental right of all citizens regardless of ability to pay. Third, to integrate these goals requires re-framing the way societies think about each. The authors describe double-loop learning, which is required when confronting second-order change. The latter term describes problems where it is necessary to redesign human perceptions for change to lead to improvement. Complex changes require double-loop learning, in which underlying interpretive conflicts and differing values and beliefs are surfaced and managed.

The significance of material culture, and the portable objects that are part of it, is dictated by people’s economic and social power, and their need to give physical expression to their status and aspirations. As in any society, the ability and wish to acquire, display, and use metals, glass, gems, or pots depended in the Middle Ages upon the supply of raw materials and finished products, and the demand that their availability might meet or create. The island of Britain had never been united by the Romans, and different reactions to their army’s withdrawal were only to be expected. Generally, however, power-seeking leaders establishing petty and impermanent fiefdoms relied largely upon being able to demonstrate their success by the acquisition of booty that could be profligately consumed, shown off, or distributed to families and supporters. Swords, brooches, or drinking-vessels symbolize how these social affinities were created and maintained, whether recorded in graves, hoards, and other deliberate deposits, or in accidental loss or intentional jettisoning of what was beyond reuse. The precise meanings that were given to gold and silver, glass and garnets, changed according to their contexts; some gave physical expression to an ambition to inherit the prestigious authority of Rome, others gave credence to stories of descent from far-travelling heroes, while others stressed a person’s place within their own immediate society. Yet artefacts such as pottery show that even people whose priority was subsistence were part of a wider network of contact. External factors influenced behaviour: no leader of a group in Britain could negotiate directly with the Byzantine emperor for the subsidies that brought gold into western Europe, so none could take action to ensure its continuing availability during the seventh century. Its relative value changed as it became rarer, so that it had to be used sparingly if at all; consequently, for some people the display of access to it became even more important. Contemporaneously, however, Christianity’s infiltration changed beliefs about what happened after death, and how people should use and dispose of their worldly goods. In bigger political units, using symbols to show origins and allegiances mattered less, but the large numbers of artefacts now known show that prosperity was not confined in the eighth and ninth centuries to the royal families.

This article explores robotic semi-destructive disassembly’s relationship with design for disassembly, and the article investigates its value as a disassembly approach for remanufacture and / or recycling. Specifically, the compatibility of design for disassembly guidelines with semi-destructive disassembly is explored. Regulatory pressures, recovering the value of products’ materials and the long-range environmental importance of cycling material flows motivate the exploration. The article compares general design for disassembly guidelines drawn from the literature with experimental results f