S Bosley, M Knorr - Journal of Financial Crime, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to empirically identify factors that increase consumer vulnerability to pyramid scheme fraud and compares/contrasts dynamics and implications of pyramid and …
C Bäckman, T Hanspal - Financial Planning Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
More than 20 million Americans are affiliated with multi‐level marketing firms (MLMs), but there is little empirical evidence on who participates in this controversial part of today's labor …
S Jain, B Singla, S Shashi - Management Science Letters, 2015 - growingscience.com
In the present scenario of high unemployment; Multilevel Marketing (MLM) generates employment for people who have no permanent source of earning. MLM system has …
ABSTRACT Young people in Puerto Princesa, the Philippines, are drawn to working as salespeople for AIM Global, a purveyor of the nutritional supplement C24/7. The company …
Purpose This paper aims to analyze variations in the parameters of the market share–rank power law across consumer packaged goods (CPG) categories. Design/methodology …
Monitoring the satisfaction of sales representatives is a major challenge in business based on multi-level marketing systems (MLM), as a high level of satisfaction could determine the …
This paper offers an economic model of the operation of multi-level marketing (MLM) firms in competitive and non-competitive markets. The model takes a recursive approach to analyse …
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation of alternative food networks (AFNs) in the US and Europe. While social scientists classify heterogenous practices as AFNs, their …
Network marketing is a dynamic business, marketing, and distribution channel model. Millions of Americans depend on income from network marketing to supplement or replace …