Public Service Motivation (PSM) and Attitudes toward Purchasing Fashion Counterfeits

Counterfeits are reproductions that appear identical to legitimate products in appearance, including packaging, trademarks, and labeling (Ang et al, 2001). In 2007, trade in counterfeits was estimated to be more than US $600 billion a year – 5 to 7$60 billion (The Korea Times, 2010). Fashion products (clothing, shoes, watches, leather goods, and jewelry) are the most popular counterfeit products

Tendency to Regret and Compulsive Buying Among Fashion Adoption Groups

The purpose of the study was to compare tendency to regret and compulsive buying tendencies among fashion adoption groups and by gender. Hypotheses were as follows: Fashion adoption groups will differ in (1) tendency to regret, and (2) compulsive buying. Women and men will differ in (3) tendency to regret, and (4) compulsive buying. (5) High (vs. low) scorers on compulsive buying will score higher on tendency to regret

Mobile Shopping Behavior among Fashion Adoption Groups

The purpose of the study was to examine differences among fashion adoption groups regarding mobile shopping behaviors

Do Fashion Trendsetting Groups Differ in Attitudes Toward Money and Tendency to Regret?

The purpose of this study was to examine differences among fashion trendsetting groups in money attitudes and tendency to regret

Face Consciousness, Gender, and Money Attitudes

The purpose of this study was to if money attitudes differ among consumers who differ in face consciousness and gender

Comparison of Fashion Innovativeness and Opinion Leadership Scales

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (a) to compare four scales for measuring fashion innovativeness and/or fashion opinion leadership that have been used to segment consumers into groups for research purposes and (b) to examine the scales for construct validity using the dependent variables fashion involvement and materialism

Fashion Adoption Groups and Consumer-Brand Relationships

The goal of the study was to compare fashion adoption groups on brand variables linked to consumer-brand relationships. Hypotheses were: Fashion change agents and fashion followers will differ in (a) brand attachment, (b) brand love and (c) brand trust

Ethical Attitudes toward Buying and Selling Counterfeits: Beneficial Lies, Belief in Fairness, and Non-monetary Values

The purpose of the study is to examine how values, explicitly (1) tolerance of beneficial lies, (2) belief in fairness, and (3) belief in non-monetary values, are related to attitudes toward buying and selling counterfeits

What do consumers think about widespread fashion counterfeits? A Q-methodological analysis of the diverse viewpoints

This study explores the complex facets of fashion counterfeits, focusing on (1) why such purchasing behaviors are widespread and (2) whether or not the behaviors are morally accepted and can be eliminated through law and regulations. In order to identify and categorize perceptual factors of the fashion counterfeits problem, we used Q-methodology with a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques to identify different patterns of subjective perceptions (Brown, 2008)

Evaluation of the Terminal Area Precision Scheduling and Spacing System for Performance-Based Navigation Arrivals

The growth of global demand for air transportation has put increasing strain on the nation's air traffic management system. To relieve this strain, the International Civil Aviation Organization has urged all nations to adopt Performance-Based Navigation (PBN), which can help to reduce air traffic congestion, decrease aviation fuel consumption, and protect the environment. NASA has developed a Terminal Area Precision Scheduling and Spacing (TAPSS) system that can support increased use of PBN during periods of high traffic, while supporting fuel-efficient, continuous descent approaches. In the original development of this system, arrival aircraft are assigned fuel-efficient Area Navigation (RNAV) Standard Terminal Arrival Routes before their initial descent from cruise, with routing defined to a specific runway. The system also determines precise schedules for these aircraft that facilitate continuous descent through the assigned routes. To meet these schedules, controllers are given a set of advisory tools to precisely control aircraft. The TAPSS system has been evaluated in a series of human-in-the-loop (HITL) air traffic simulations during 2010 and 2011. Results indicated increased airport arrival throughput up to 10 over current operations, and maintained fuel-efficient aircraft decent profiles from the initial descent to landing with reduced controller workload. This paper focuses on results from a joint NASA and FAA HITL simulation conducted in 2012. Due to the FAA rollout of the advance terminal area PBN procedures at mid-sized airports first, the TAPSS system was modified to manage arrival aircraft as they entered Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON). Dallas-Love Field airport (DAL) was selected by the FAA as a representative mid-sized airport within a constrained TRACON airspace due to the close proximity of a major airport, in this case Dallas-Ft Worth International Airport, one of the busiest in the world. To address this constraint, RNAV routes and Required Navigation Performance with the particular capability known as Radius-to-Fix (RNP-RF) approaches to a short final were used. The purpose of this simulation was to get feedback on how current operations could benefit with the TAPSS system and also to evaluate the efficacy of the advisory tools to support the broader use of PBN in the US National Airspace System. For this NASA-FAA joint experiment, an Air Traffic Control laboratory at NASA Ames was arranged to simulate arrivals into DAL in Instrument Meteorological Conditions utilizing parallel dependent approaches, with two feeder positions that handed off traffic to one final position. Four FAA controllers participated, alternately covering these three positions. All participants were Full-Performance Level terminal controllers and members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. During the simulation, PBN arrival operations were compared and contrasted in three conditions. They were the Baseline, where none of the TAPSS systems TRACON controller decision support advisories were provided, the Limited Advisories, reflecting the existing but dormant capabilities of the current terminal automation equipment with providing a subset of the TAPSS systems advisories; numerical delay, landing sequence, and runway assignment information, and the Full Advisories, with providing the following in addition to the ones in the Limited condition; trajectory slot markers, timelines of estimated times of arrivals and sche