As American Express's new CEO Stephen Squeri intends to stick to a more merchant-focused business model, we expect this to positively impact purchase volumes going forward.
Building on this line of argument, we examine to what extent the (mis)fit between purchasing strategy and purchasing structure impacts purchasing performance.
Analysing data collected from 469 firms in ten countries, we demonstrate that a strategy-structure misfit negatively impacts purchasing performance in both cost and innovation strategies.
We focus on cost and innovation purchase category strategies, and examine how the deviation from an ideal purchasing structure defined along three dimensions (centralization, formalization, and cross-functionality) impacts purchasing performance.
This report contains information on weekly feeder cattle sales in the state of Missouri, with commentary on prices and changes from the previous week, trade, future markets, and weather conditions potentially impacting purchases.
Behavioral economics is the study of behavior and how it impacts purchasing.
Purchasing rate of products during the intervention will be compared with baseline purchasing rate to determine whether label font size impacts purchasing.
We will compare the proportion of green to red items purchased during the intervention and baseline periods to determine whether color on Nutrition Facts Panels can impact purchasing.
Advertising was founded on the core tenet that exposure to it can impact purchasing decisions and even spawn impulse buying.
While the tax is modest, studies around the world demonstrate that it can impact purchasing decisions, and, in turn, improve public health outcomes.
In one survey by Dimensional Research, 86% of customers who read a negative review online said that information impacted their purchase decision.
