Products In Marketplace Research Articles

National longitudinal tobacco product cessation rates among US adults from the PATH Study: 2013–2019 (waves 1–5)

ObjectiveTo report on longitudinal tobacco product cessation rates, by product type, among adults (ages 18+ years) in the USA between 2013 and 2019.MethodsThe Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study,...

Pengembangan Ekonomi Daerah melalui Sektor Unggulan Kota Surabaya dalam Masa Pandemi Covid-19

The purpose of this study is to describe regional economic development through leading sectors in the city of Surabaya during the Covid-19 pandemic. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the regional economy received quite severe impacts, including reduced working hours, decreased wages, and a more serious problem was increasing unemployment and the inability to absorb new workers. The research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a research focus on four main components of regional economic development, namely the development of the economic base, institutions, human resource development, and technology development – technology adaptation. Data collection techniques were carried out by interview and document study. Sources of data come from Bappeda, the City Cooperatives and Micro Enterprises Service and the Surabaya City Manpower Service. The results of the study show that locality development by the Surabaya City government in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is carried out both physically in the form of facilities and infrastructure and non-physical development by conducting training needed by the community. In general, the institutional aspects are adequate, but their participation is still not as desired. In the aspect of human resource development, the development program is carried out by providing briefings to the community both related to honing skills or briefing on the rights they should get as workers. Aspects of technology adaptation are carried out through the development of the Ecobis System such as the MSME product marketplace. However, improvements also need to be made to overcome some of the weaknesses in each of these components.

Different Times Call for Different Measures: Using Retail Sales to Monitor the Tobacco Product Landscape

Different Times Call for Different Measures: Using Retail Sales to Monitor the Tobacco Product Landscape

Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories

In their pursuit of “optimal distinctiveness,” firms need to simultaneously adhere to norms and stand out from the competition. Using longitudinal data from Amazon Launchpad, an online B2C marketplace for entrepreneurial products, we offer a multi-level perspective on optimal distinctiveness from a consumer goods market in which firms are active across different and heterogeneous product categories. Arguing along categorization, organizational identity, and the fit with audiences' theory of value, we challenge the assumption that firm-level distinctiveness, i.e., the distinctiveness of a firm's organizational identity and category claims, delivers equal benefits to all products it offers and showcase the decisive role of product category context. In product categories that share less overlap with other categories and thus occupy a more distinct position in the classification system, products offered by firms with high firm-level distinctiveness benefit, whereas in product categories that share frequent relations to other categories and thus occupy a non-distinct position, products do not benefit at all. This offers researchers and managers alike a new and more nuanced perspective on firm-level distinctiveness: It is not invariably efficient in addressing audiences once the “optimal” level is found, but requires careful consideration of both the firm-level appeal and the product category in which a firm seeks to operate. Firm-level distinctiveness provides firms with the means to increase the differentiation of their own products, yet this effect is most meaningful in product categories with an increasingly distinct position.

Design of a Handicraft Product Marketplace using a Web-Based Business to Consumer (B2C) Method

West Sumatra is famous for its embroidery. Usually embroidery is found on mukena, hijab, brackets, koko clothes, and others. The issue of marketing and brand promotion is still one of the biggest obstacles for embroidery businesses in increasing their business scale. Embroidery business actors often experience problems in selling their products. This cannot be separated from the tendency of these business actors to focus more on the production process without being balanced by marketing and promotion. Some embroiders, when the goods are available, they are confused about what to do to sell it quickly. As a result, the marketing and promotion steps taken tend to be conventional, namely word of mouth or simply displaying their products in stores. To overcome these problems, the authors conducted research to design a marketplace application to help business people to easily promote their products. In conducting this research the author uses the SDLC method. While the development of software in the design of this decision support system the author uses the PHP programming language. The results of this study are a marketplace application that can make it easier for customers to access products without having to come to the place, make purchases, transfer payments or online anywhere, so as to increase customer buying interest

Pay-What-You-Want Pricing in the Digital Product Marketplace: A Feasible Alternative to Piracy Prevention?

In pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing, buyers are allowed to pay any amount they want, often including a price of zero. Standard theory predicts that buyers are driven solely by their own interest and will always choose to pay nothing, making PWYW pricing impractical to use. Nonetheless, PWYW pricing has been consistently occurring in the marketplace. We build and analyze a theoretical model to explain the presence of PWYW pricing in the marketplace and identify the situations under which businesses are better off adopting it over the traditional posted pricing. Because the digital product domain is a particularly good fit for PWYW pricing because of its constant exposure to piracy threats, we focus on digital product firms and examine PWYW pricing as an alternative to their piracy prevention efforts. We show that PWYW pricing becomes a superior pricing strategy when the pirate version is quite similar to the authentic product and it is costly for the firm to improve its product quality. Moreover, if network externalities are present, PWYW pricing can outperform posted pricing only when the network externalities are weak. The results explain why PWYW pricing is rare in the established digital product marketplace, which exhibits strong network externalities.

"Are You There, Trademark Law? It's Me, Misogyny."


 
 
 When I became aware of the emergent body of legal scholarship on menstruation related topics on which this Symposium builds, I thought that the authors of these articles were very brave.1 I’m an imperfect but life-long feminist and accepted the emotional challenge that writing this Essay posed for me out of gratitude to those authors. Because my principal scholarly focus is intellectual property law, I approached the topic through the lens of trademark law. Part One of this article positions this Essay firmly within the contours of the author’s life and personal experiences with menstruation. Part Two maps common trademark and branding practices related to tampons and sanitary napkins. Part Three explains that the Lanham Act does not offer legal mechanisms by which to challenge the federal registration of sexist trademarks. As with racist trademarks, amplified criticism and persistent public pressure are the main mechanisms available to foment positive change in the marketplace for feminine hygiene products.
 
 

The Handmade Effect: A Model of Conscious Shopping in an Industrialised Economy

Although online marketplaces for handmade products persist, little theoretical research has been undertaken to explain why firms choose a handmade strategy. In this paper, I develop a model that can explain the persistence through a handmade effect on the consumer side. I show that when consumers are willing to pay a sufficiently high handmade premium, the firm chooses production by hand over superior machine production. When the firm is part of a duopoly, the existence of consumers who care about the conditions under which a product is manufactured can explain the firms’ specialisation and, thus, the observed co-existence of handmade and machine-made products in the economy. Such specialisation is efficient, and can be robust to collusion. The presence of shoppers who are uncertain about the appropriate behaviour may enable the monopolist to use a handmade strategy to signal a social norm of conscious consumption.

Review Analisis Produk Marketplace Online pada Algoritma Support Vector Machine

With the presence of a marketplace, internet users are able to shop by cellphones or laptops which ease them to process the transactions. This advantage is the key to the popularity of e-commerce and marketplaces in the 21st century. Considering that users prefer having e-commerce to going out and looking for products. Internet users are still hesitant in choosing a good and bad marketplace since there is a disappointing marketplace system and a deficient service. The Researcher will make a selection of the product marketplace based on opinions or review comments. The stage of selecting marketplace products is based on an opinion or public opinion who buys goods on the selected marketplace, the opinion is given into online opinions such as comments on the marketplace. The comments that are used as samples will be processed and grouped into data sets. In this case, the researcher processes the classification or grouping of data by applying the Support Vector Machine (SVM) method in accordance with the classification of processing data sets in the form of text. After being applied to the SVM method, the accuracy value is 75.92%, the SVM method produces a fairly good accuracy value on the dataset in the form of text classification in the marketplace review. From the results of testing the data, it can help readers in determining a good marketplace.

The First Amendment of Institute of Family and Life Advocates vs. Medical Expertise

With its decision in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) vs. Becerra (2018), the then conservative majority on the United States’ Supreme Court concluded that the California FACT Act violated NIFLA’s right to free speech. The FACT Act an acronym for Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency was put in place to remedy misleading, deceptive, and harmful practices by NIFLA’s crisis pregnancy centers and marketplace communications. Ultimately, the 5-4 majority set aside the reasonable arguments put forward by the American Medical Association in a decision that defers to fundamentalist free speech jurisprudence, diminishes the standing of medical experts, and leaves marketplaces for reproductive products and services impoverished by misinformation.

REFORMULATING THE APPLICABLE STRATEGIES IN IMPROVING FINANCIAL LITERACY AND INCLUSION INDEX TOWARD ISLAMIC CAPITAL MARKET

Indonesia’s financial inclusion and literacy index level in the Islamic capital market sector is quietly low at around 0.02% and 0.01%. Though Indonesia is known as a country with the largest Muslim population in the world with more than 85%. Furthermore, the fact of Indonesia is the 4th highest growth country in the capital market industry in Asia-Pacific throughout 2017. The potential for growth and development of the Islamic capital market in Indonesia is very high, but this fact is not followed by the growth rate of financial literacy and inclusion index especially in the capital market sector. The aim of this paper is to identify the new applicable strategic approach to improve Islamic financial literacy and inclusion in term of Islamic capital market sector. This research uses qualitative methods with a literature review from the article journal, government report, news report, and others in reviewing, identifying, and knowing the strategies that will be implemented. The results show there are six specific strategies used in improving Islamic capital market literacy and inclusion indexes namely, rebranding investment negative stereotype, building a sustainable promotion and campaign through offline and online platform, creating an online integrated marketplace for Islamic capital market products, improving corporate Sukuk and introducing a new SRI Sukuk product, forming agents & groups of Islamic capital market lovers, and monitoring & evaluating the applied strategy.

An Open Online Product Marketplace to Overcome Supply and Demand Chain Inefficiencies in Times of Crisis

Abstract Digital tools for design and manufacturing have led to a new revolution in how products are conceptualized and made. These advancements have led to the democratization of ideation and creation of personalized products, as well as many other innovations. However, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed a critical flaw in the digital thread: the manufacturing systems of today remain inflexible to rapid changes brought on by emergency and crisis responses. The inefficiencies of this inflexibility caused by disconnects in supply and demand chains have become especially evident. We present a vision for a digital system—an open online product marketplace—that would enable product designers to rapidly connect with capable producers in meeting urgent customer demands. As such, this digital system would facilitate ordering, orchestration, and fulfillment, as well as continuous improvement of manufacturing-as-a-service systems. It would support flexible, sustainable, and resilient supply and demand chains beyond the COVID-19 period by enabling rapid specification matching for tailored or customized products to existing available manufacturing capabilities.

Sustainable Practices in Furniture Design: A Literature Study on Customization, Biomimicry, Competitiveness, and Product Communication

This research considers the ecosystem services associated with furniture, one of the leading types of secondary wood products manufactured internationally. We review and synthesize the literature surrounding the sustainable design, use, and disposition of wood furniture and related products in global markets. We consider emerging and innovative design strategies for wood (in biomimicry, for example) as well as topics that have been gaining traction in recent years (i.e., green supply chain management and eco/environmental labels and related market communications). An overarching theme is to consider how firm competitiveness can be influenced, or even enhanced, by green practices in design and associated communications with consumers. With a trend toward increasing customization in the secondary wood product marketplace, the role of design might be changing. However, design remains a critical product development function in modern markets, and designers are well-positioned to influence sustainable material utilization and improve furniture product use and lifespan.

Association of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Use With Cigarette Smoking Progression or Reduction Among Young Adults

The prevalence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use, including e-cigarettes, among US young adults (YAs) has raised questions about how these products may affect future tobacco and nicotine use among YAs. Given this prevalence and that young adulthood is a critical period for the establishment of tobacco and nicotine use, it is important to consider the association between ENDS use and cigarette smoking specifically in this age group. To examine whether ENDS use frequency or intensity is associated with changes in cigarette smoking among US YA ever smokers during 1 year. This cohort study used 3 waves of data (2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016) from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, an ongoing longitudinal cohort study of adults and youth. Unweighted 1:6 propensity score matching was used to match participants on wave 1 risk factors for ENDS use at wave 2. The changes in smoking between wave 2 and wave 3 were assessed using the matched sample. In total, 1096 ENDS-naive, ever cigarette-smoking YAs (18-24 years of age) at wave 1 who participated in wave 2 and wave 3 and who had complete data in the PATH Study were included in the analyses, which were conducted from August 2018 to October 2019. Never ENDS use (n = 987), any previous 30-day ENDS use (n = 109), 1 to 5 days of ENDS use in the previous 30 days (n = 75), and 6 or more days ENDS use in the previous 30 days at wave 2 (n = 34). The analytic sample was selected using multiple variables based on peer-reviewed literature supporting associations with ENDS use. The main outcomes-changes in cigarette smoking behavior between wave 2 and wave 3-were defined using 2 measures: (1) change in smoking frequency, defined as the number of smoking days in the previous 30 days at wave 3 vs wave 2, and (2) change in smoking intensity, defined as the number smoking days in the previous 30 days multiplied by the mean number of cigarettes consumed on smoking days at wave 3 vs wave 2. The present cohort analyses included 1096 YA ever smokers who were ENDS naive at wave 1. The majority of the sample were women (609 [55.6%]) and White individuals (698 [63.7%]), and the mean (SD) age was 21.4 (1.9) years. In wave 1, 161 YAs (14.7%) were daily smokers in the previous 30 days. After propensity score matching, no statistically significant associations were observed between any definition of wave 2 ENDS use and changes in either the frequency or intensity of smoking at wave 3. In this cohort study of US YA ever smokers, ENDS use was not associated with either decreased or increased cigarette smoking during a 1-year period. However, it is possible that the rapidly evolving marketplace of vaping products may lead to different trajectories of YA cigarette and ENDS use in the future.

ROLE OF FACEBOOK VIDEO ADVERTISEMENTS IN INFLUENCING THE IMPULSIVE BUYING BEHAVIOR OF CONSUMERS

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the role of Facebook video advertisements in influencing the impulsive buying behaviour of consumers. Social media facilitates global interaction among its users through their experiences and ideas. Social media has today become one of the greatest marketplaces for products and service providers in promoting their brands. This study has developed a conceptual framework in order to identify how video advertisements influence the impulsive buying behaviour of consumers. The model has been tested empirically through the collection of quantitative primary data. The data has been collected from Indian consumers who have a Facebook account and use it frequently. Descriptive research design has been employed in this study. The collected data has been subject to statistical analysis through SPSS software. In addition to identifying the relationship between video advertisements and Impulsive buying behaviour of consumers, this study also attempts to examine the role of the demographic characters of the consumers in moderating the relationship between the proposed variables. The results of the study reveal that social media video advertisements influence the cognitive and affective aspects of impulsive buying behaviour of consumers. Further, the results revealed that the relationship between social media video advertisements and impulsive buying behaviour of consumers is moderated by the demographic characteristics namely age, gender and social status of the consumers.

The past is not the future in tobacco control

In this paper we have attempted to identify missed opportunities to change the trajectory of smoking and smoking caused diseases in America over the past 100 years. Many of the missed opportunities identified are due to the actions of cigarette manufacturers who misled the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking, the addictiveness of nicotine, and the feasibility of providing lower risk alternative nicotine delivery products to addicted smokers. An important lesson learned from the past is that treating all tobacco/nicotine products as equivalently harmful is counterproductive to public health as it only serves to protect the most lethal nicotine product – cigarettes. Since 2000, the evolving marketplace of lower risk nicotine products combined with regulatory authority over tobacco products represents a new opportunity to dramatically transform the cigarette business in ways that were never imagined when the war on tobacco was raging decades ago. However, this requires embracing risk-proportionate regulation, taxation policies, and providing consumers with accurate public messaging on product relative risks. A regulatory framework based on sound science that encourages and rewards new or existing manufacturers to invest in consumer acceptable lower risk products to replace cigarettes needs to be encouraged. The past is indeed not the future in smoking control, but it may be difficult to escape the past unless a realignment of market forces and policies can be achieved.

Should Amazon Be Allowed to Sell on Its Own Marketplace?

A growing number of platforms including those run by Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft operate in a dual mode: running marketplaces for third-party products, while also selling their own products on those marketplaces. We build a model to explore the implications of this controversial practice, taking into account the endogeneity of third-party sellers' innovation decisions. We analyze the tradeoffs that arise from a ban on the dual mode, showing how such a ban can harm consumer surplus and welfare even when the platform would otherwise engage in product imitation and self-preferencing. Instead, in the empirically most relevant scenarios, policies that prevent platform imitation and self-preferencing lead to better outcomes than an outright ban on the dual mode.

Correlates of tobacco product initiation among youth and adults in the USA: findings from the PATH Study Waves 1–3 (2013–2016)

ObjectiveTo report on demographic and tobacco product use correlates of tobacco product initiation (cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), cigars, hookah and smokeless tobacco) among the US population.DesignData were from...

Start-up with limited budget: pleasing customers with innovative idea's - a case study of HUMPL

The case explored how the life style brand Happily Unmarried Marketing Private Ltd. (HUMPL) has nurtured the creation of quirky life style product in market place. The organisation offers its items through its store and through their site, multi brand retailers; and through online commercial centres, for example, Amazon, Snapdeal, Paytm and Flipkart and so forth. They developed as the command dealer in the zone of particular way of life items. The case featured an imaginative business thought when supported by involvement and solid market examination it turns out as a fruitful start-up. The investigation demonstrated how, by concentrating on quality, improving the item range and creating one of a kind plan for a specific fragment of the market, the brand of Happily Unmarried Marketing Private Ltd. (HUMPL) accomplished the potential revenue driven stream. A similar actuality pulled in the huge market player like Info Edge, to put resources into the start-up in the year 2012 and 2014. Later on Wipro Consumer Care, in the year 2018 discharged funds for this organisation. Subsequently the investigation clearly showed, the enterprise is about interpretation of one of a kind thought into a business adventure terms with consistent exertion and experiential learning's.

Development and Piloting Testing of an Experimental Tobacco and Nicotine Product Marketplace.

We describe the development and pilot testing of the experimental tobacco and nicotine product marketplace (ETM)-a method for studying tobacco and nicotine product (TNP) choices and use behavior in a standardized way. The ETM resembles an online store populated with TNPs. Surveillance activities and data from a US representative survey and consumer reports were used to determine the most popular TNPs for inclusion in the ETM. Standardized information and videos demonstrating how to use the TNPs were provided. To test the feasibility of using the ETM, smokers (n = 119) underwent monitoring of usual brand cigarette smoking and other TNP use (Baseline Phase) followed by access to the ETM (ETM Phase) that included their usual brand cigarettes, e-cigarettes, moist snuff, snus, and nicotine replacement therapy. During the ETM Phase, participants were provided points based on their baseline TNP consumption to exchange for TNPs in the ETM. Participants were advised to exchange points for enough TNPs to last until their next visit and to refrain from using TNPs not obtained in the ETM. A subset of the participants (n = 62) completed a survey on their experience with the ETM. The majority of the participants stated they were comfortable with navigating the ETM (97%), it was easy to determine product characteristics (89%), and they were satisfied with the products included in the marketplace (85%). The ETM was well received by the vast majority of the participants and can be utilized by researchers to investigate a variety of TNP policy and regulatory science research questions. Patterns of TNP use are complex due to greater availability, marketing, and promotion of a diverse array of TNPs. Innovative methods are needed to experimentally study TNP choices and patterns. Through describing the development of the ETM, we provide researchers with a tool that can be readily adapted to studying a variety of phenomena challenging public health.