As a profession established during the Progressive Era when industrialization, immigration,
urbanization, and other social forces were prevalent, family and consumer sciences is once …

Eco-design packaging is viewed as a packaging innovation strategy for greater eco-
efficiency through incorporating environmental and/or social concerns into its life cycle …

Increased variety of products and the instability of the global economy in twenty first century
caused increasing complexity of financial decisions and also caused consumers faced with …

This exploratory study examined the relationship between lifestyle entrepreneurship and life
quality. The researchers defined lifestyle entrepreneurs as individuals who owned and …

For millennia, humans have asked themselves, what is the good life? Answers to this
perplexing question cannot be developed in any detail without reference to personal and …

Based on the understanding that every vendor is an independent agent with unique
interests and values, this study explores the meaning of success and failure for street food …

Abstract In 1998 “The Assets for Independence Act”(Title IV of PL105-285) established
Individual Development Accounts (IDA) to encourage welfare recipients to save money and …

This paper assesses the societal benefit of transformative consumer research (TCR) through
a descriptive review of articles published in the special issues associated with the TCR …

If consumer research is to be truly transformative on a large scale, it must address big
challenges that systemically impede or facilitate consumer well-being. Developing …

Hard discounters are moving away from an almost exclusive private-label (PL) focus by
adding a select set of big-name brands to their otherwise scanty assortments. However, to …