Purpose Luxury brands tend to be hesitant in adopting social media. This matter has created an imminent need to understand the different types of online luxury followers so as to help luxury brands communicate effectively ...

This article was conducted to examine the various steps the schools of management have passed by across history; starting from the classical management theory which was developed during the industrial revolution to the ...

We investigate the impact of bills about energy policy, introduced and discussed in the US Congress, on the conditional variance process of the five largest Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. Using an augmented ...

Much of the literature in the field of diversity serves to disentangle the seemingly conflicting impact of diversity on performance. While nonlinear models and models of external factors that either mediate or moderate the ...

In most real-world settings, a transportation plan requires modifications during execution. A thorough evaluation of transportation planning methods thus requires testing and comparison in a dynamic environment. We give ...

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked and hourly wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the USA, using individual-level data, have ...

This paper examines the value of utilizing dynamic, revenue-maximizing, congestion pricing on a privately operated tolled route, when the only alternative is a highly congested, public, free-access route. Three methods are ...

This paper develops a labor-based model where a worker chooses between not only work and leisure, as the traditional labor models have argued, but rather between labor, leisure and the purchase of insurance. The model ...

The growth of new technological innovations has given rise to a highly digitized retailing world that is re-defining the consumer purchase journey. Innovations, such as Amazon's Alexa, Dash-buttons (physical and virtual), ...