If consumer businesses in Asia are to meet the chalenge, they will have to fundamentally change the way they think about strategy, operations, organization and marketing. As the world witnesses profound changes to the traditional model of global finance, some Asian countries have proven...

This paper aims to verify the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) or inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation in the context of endogenous growth. An important feature of this study is that the EKC is examined in the presence of...

The literature on the factors influencing children’s consumption behaviour is vast; however, gender-specific consumption behaviour and the determinants driving these discriminative decisions are largely unknown. This article contributes insights to the role of gender in food preferences using...

The global economic crisis has clearly affected the economies of all countries. Regarding the social sphere, its impacts include growing unemployment, decreasing household incomes, changes in the consumption structure and lifestyles, serious states of anxiety and depression induced in people by...

The article analyses new trends in the behaviour of Polish households during the present crisis. The description of the research methodology and the sample used is followed by a discussion of major consumption trends observed among the respondents, such as cocooning, conscious consumption, smart...

This thesis investigates profiling and differentiating customers through the use of statistical data mining techniques. The business application of our work centres on examining individuals’ seldomly studied yet critical consumption behaviour over an extensive time period within the context of...