Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1969. / Bibliography: leaves [157]-158. / ix, 158 l illus., tables

The theory of planned behaviour is adapted as the theoretical foundation for the conceptual model used in the research. Five constructs from the conceptual model are tested to find out the important influencing factors for online shopping in Bangkok, Thailand. Descriptive research and an anonymous questionnaire are designed as the data collection methodology and are used in the survey fieldwork conducted at central shopping malls in Bangkok during November and December, 2005 covering 384 sample respondents. The target-sampling respondents are working adults aged 25 years old and older, with Internet competency. The frequency and mean are used to describe the sampling respondents profiles. The one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and single multiple regression are used as the statistical tools in order to get a valid significance level for each variable influencing Thai online shoppers purchasing intentions. The software tool used is SPSS version 11.5 for analysis of the statistics. / Five factors are found to be the main findings of this study which influence Thai online shoppers purchasing intentions. Eight of them; convenience, time saving, reasonable price, perceived behavioural control, shoppers education, shoppers income, shoppers age, and shoppers occupation, are not found to be important variables whereas they were significant in previous studies, especially those conducted in the western countries. The following factors: trust in online shops, positive attitude toward online shopping, shoppers friends, shoppers colleagues, the members of shoppers family, online buying experience and male shoppers are all factors relevant to and which influence Bangkok online shoppers purchasing intentions. The most important factor among these is the positive attitude toward online shopping of the respondents. These shoppers tend to display an intention to purchase goods or services through an online shop only when they have a positive attitude toward online shopping. A positive attitude to online shopping causes the intention to buy online while a negative attitude has the opposite effect. In addition to the positive attitude toward online shopping, online buying experience and gender need to be emphasized. This is the key profile of shoppers who are likely to be the majority of those who use online shopping. / In conclusion, the five factors affecting online shopping for this study as mentioned above contribute to the findings on Thai online buying behaviour. Sellers need to take these factors into consideration and put them into their business plans in order to boost online sales, and to remain competitive in the online market. / Online shopping is a relatively new type of retail shopping. It has now been adopted all over the world including Thailand. In Thailand, electronic shopping is still not as well known or accepted as in many other countries, and though the knowledge of online shopping in Thailand is now beginning to increase rapidly, the factors influencing online shopping behaviour of Thai consumers have not been investigated. There are several articles written on online shopping, which have studied the influencing factors, but these have not been conducted in a Thai setting. The behaviour of Thai people is regarded as unique since they are classified as being in a collectivist or dependent culture, while most studies of online shopping are in countries where the culture is classified as individualistic, which is more independent. In particular, Thai consumers purchasing intention is focused on in this research. The study measures the factors that lead the shoppers to purchase goods or services before their final purchasing decision. This research is aimed at contributing to the knowledge on the factors influencing Thai online shoppers purchasing intention, particularly by shoppers in Bangkok. Other parties, such as corporate management, marketing executives, web developers, web designers, and government agencies, can also obtain benefits from the findings of this research. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

This dissertation analyses the statistical and theoretical basis of Goodhardt, Ehrenberg and Chatfield's (1984) NBD-Dirichlet model of purchase incidence and brand choice. In doing so it makes a contribution to the understanding and use of this model specifically and to gamma models in general. / Particular attention is devoted to the mixing distributions of the NBD-Dirichlet model. It takes the oft-mentioned and little understood random variables of the model and exploits these as the principal tool of understanding. / The value of this approach is demonstrated by the proposition that all of the NBD-Dirichlet model parameters (A, K, S and the g brand α) can be comprehended to such a degree that a reader will be able to anticipate values of these parameters for different categories prior to fitting the model, and further, that it is possible to develop empirical generalisations relating to these parameters. / A deeper understanding of this model is, therefore, achieved through examining the gamma distribution. By understanding this continuous distribution, its parameters and random variables, the NBD-Dirichlet model and its parameters may be understood. The starting point is the random variable. Properly understanding the random variable of the NBD-Dirichlet model's mixing distributions in the marketing context is integral to this dissertation. / This dissertation expands the conceptualisation of the random variable briefly mentioned in the literature for the negative binomial distribution and also extends it to the underlying random variable for the Dirichlet multinomial distribution, hence resulting in a conceptually identical random variable for both brand choice and purchase incidence. These random variables are termed selection rates, and are latent, with each shopper having a 'latent selection rate' for every brand in the category and an additional, and independent, latent selection rate for the category itself. Thus in a g brand category, each shopper has g + 1 latent selection rates. In the NBD-Dirichlet model, latent selection rates are distributed gamma over the population. / Nine propositions regarding the NBD-Dirichlet model parameters in fast moving consumer goods (hereafter FMCG) categories are derived from latent selection rate theory. A number of these propositions are supported either directly or indirectly by the literature, with a tenth proposition arising solely from this second source. Observations of parameters in 50 FMCG categories are obtained in order to test these propositions. The empirical results demonstrate the utility of the theory of latent selection rates and in addition develop a number of generalisations relating to the NBD-Dirichlet parameters. The principal result of this dissertation is that the theory of latent selection rates enables the parameters of the NBD-Dirichlet model to be anticipated for a given FMCG category. / The notion of latent selection rates and describing the underlying random variables of the NBD-Dirichlet model is not unique to this dissertation, however using them as a tool for understanding, and anticipating the parameters of the model is. This dissertation thus enhances the practical and theoretical usefulness of the NBD-Dirichlet model by focusing on its parameters which fully specify any stationary and non-partitioned category. / This is achieved by showing that the parameter values of the NBD-Dirichlet model for a given category may be anticipated simply through a basic knowledge of the category and a theoretical knowledge of the model; specifically the theory of latent selection rates. The theory thus enables a greater comprehension of the NBD-Dirichlet model and has significant implications for both academic research and everyday managerial decision making. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2005.

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2005.

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2001.

The intention of this thesis is to explore and discuss the experiences of consumers and carers with psychiatric disability support services. In particular their participation in service development and delivery and the degree to which their relationship with services and providers has influenced this participation, is explored and discussed. These relationships are particularly relevant in the context of the dynamics that determine power and the strategies that consumers have adopted so that they become more empowered and have control over their own lives. / Consumers and their carers are placing greater demands on the mental health service system within Victoria. Reforms to mental health and psychiatric disability support service delivery and practice have resulted in deinstitutionalisation, recognition of fundamental human rights and changes to mental health legislation. Participation by consumers and carers in service development and delivery has been viewed by governments as necessary and important in contributing to care, treatment and support systems. / The National Mental Health Policy developed by the Australian Health Ministers paid substantial attention to the need to include consumers and carers in decisions that shape mental health services. These are underpinned by the World Health Organisation’s doctrine that people have the right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care. (WHO 1990, p. 14). In Victoria, the National Mental Health Policy lead to the development of a framework for mental health services that reinforced consumer and carer participation in service development and delivery. / A qualitative methodology was used for this investigation. In-depth interviews were conducted with consumers and carers to gain a thorough understanding of their experiences and perceptions of the current mental health system. A review of available literature on the developing mental health consumer movement and on the concepts and practices of empowering strategies was undertaken. The opportunities for participation in the design, development and delivery of services in the context of actual experiences, are discussed with consumers and carers with particular emphasis on consumers’ perceptions of power and empowerment. / The transition from institution to community, known as deinstitutionalisation, has not been an easy one to accept by consumers and carers alike. The changes to service design and delivery with a greater focus on community and out reach services, and the necessary changes in attitudes by providers toward consumers as a result of these changes, have established major challenges for the mental health and psychiatric disability support services sector. Consumers and carers argue that the rhetoric inherent in the decision to implement deinstitutionalisation policies and practices that have lead to a shift to services primarily delivered outside of institutions, needs to be taken to another level. They want to ensure that they are recognised and accepted as bringing essential knowledge and experience to a service system that should be designed to support consumers and carers who face life altering circumstances as a result of a mental illness. / The information provided by consumer participants suggests that the reforms to some degree have provided them with more opportunities to take control over their own lives particularly in relation to their involvement in community based psychiatric disability support services. However, they describe the attitudes of providers as remaining the greatest barrier to advancing consumer participation. Carers on the other hand describe their experiences with psychiatric disability support services as disempowering. Their disillusionment with the mental health system is attributed to the lack of support and their perceived lack of recognition in their role as carers.

Thesis (M.S.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 75-79)

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 9, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [99]-109).