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Consumer selection of retail patronage mode has been widely researched by marketing scholars. Several researchers have segmented consumers by shopping orientation. However, few have applied such methods to the Internet shopper. Despite the widespread belief that Internet shoppers are primarily motivated by convenience, the authors show empirically that consumers' fundamental shopping orientations have no signi®cant impact on their proclivity to purchase products online. Factors that are more likely to in¯uence purchase intention include product type, prior purchase, and, to a lesser extent, gender.

This study focuses on the negative effects of the highly competitive academic environment. We summarized the literature on what consequences an over-competitive system has on the people involved and on the productivity of the system as a whole. We conclude that negative effects outweigh the potential gains which competitive systems bring about. The literature suggests that not only do constant rejections demotivate the majority of academics, but also the funding allocation process in itself seems inefficient. The pressure on academics is so high that we tend to systematically over-estimate our success chances of our funding proposals, manuscripts and promotion requests.

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The congruence between male prison officers' (POs) perceptions of job‐related stress and wives' perceptions of their husbands' stress was examined. A Sources of Stress Questionnaire (SSQ) and the GHQ were administered to a random sample of POs. Their wives were asked to identify the sources of stress in their husbands' job, and to complete the GHQ. The results of two measures of congruence are reported. Firstly, separate factor analyses of the SSQ for the POs and their wives revealed similar factor structures and, secondly, the pattern and magnitude of the stress reported by the couples varied within factors. Wives reported greater stress originating from the violent nature of their husbands' job, and less stress originating from living in a prison village than their husbands. It is suggested that the wives' accurate perceptions arise as the result of subjective assessments, communication of which is facilitated by particular features of the work and work environment.