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Points out that, although blind tests have generally revealed that consumers can detect little difference between store brand and national brand products, private brands still only have a small market share (14.9 percent). Using an environmental psychology model as the study framework, which postulates a stimulus‐response process, examines the effects of store atmosphere on consumer evaluations of private brand grocery products. Analyzes the results which show that store aesthetics do influence consumer perceptions of store brand quality. Discusses the managerial implications of the findings and the limitations of the study, and makes suggestions for future research.

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/10610429610119405. When citing the article, please cite: Alan Dick, Arun Jain, Paul Richardson, (1996), “How consumers evaluate store brands”, Journal of Product & Brand Management, Vol. 5 Iss: 2, pp. 19 - 28.

Educational psychologists have, over the last half century or so, directed their attention to the study of student motivation. While teachers have not entirely been ignored, there has been little inquiry into teacher motivation that has been systematic and theory-driven. The concentration on students has tended to overlook the centrality of teacher motivations as integral to teachers’ goals, beliefs, perceptions, aspirations, and behaviours, and thereby to student motivations and learning. It is perhaps not surprising that those motivation researchers who have developed robust theories in relation to student learning in educational contexts would begin to turn their attention to teachers, to see whether those same theories might have explanatory power with regard to teacher motivations. Teacher self-efficacy research (e.g., Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2007; Woolfolk Hoy & Burke-Spero, 2005) has made important contributions to the study of teachers. Motivation researchers are now beginning to turn their attention to other aspects of the complex of motivational factors which demand greater attention and exploration. Robust theoretical frameworks already exist in the motivation literature, which can be applied to guide future research in this area. There has recently been a surge of interest, or what we have elsewhere described as a “Zeitgeist” (Watt & Richardson, 2008a) in applying well-developed theories in motivation research, to the domain of teaching.

Proposes two hypotheses and tests them empirically: that consumers do not differentiate between store brands offered by competing stores; that store brand market share is consistent with chain penetration. To test the hypotheses, employs an experimental design using 350 subjects, and collects survey data from 923 respondents regarding store patronage behavior and brand choice. The first hypothesis received unconditional support. The second hypothesis received conditional support. Discusses implications for marketing strategy.

This book has been produced by a research team from NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). Readers familiar with NACRO publications will feel a bit cheated because a large part of its solid empirical centre has been published elsewhere (Unemployment and Magistrates' Courts, NACRO, 1987) — in a more user‐friendly, and much less‐expensive, form.

Teaching is increasingly recognised as a complex, demanding career. Teachers experience higher levels of stress and burnout than other professionals. The career is subject to heightened levels of public scrutiny and yet offers only modest rewards in the form of social status and income. Drawing on a typological model of coping styles among a diverse sample of German health professionals, we identified six types of emotional coping (Good health, Sparing, (healthy) Ambitious, (path to) Burnout, Diligent, and Wornout) among a longitudinal sample of 612 Australian primary and secondary teachers. A significant outcome of our study was the empirical differentiation between burned out and wornout teachers. This extends the literature on teacher burnout and offers new directions to the study of ‘at risk’ beginning teachers.

SIMPLIFIED CONTROL OF THE MOTOR CAR has occupied the minds of designers ever since the earliest days of the industry. In the many attempts to make driving a car easier for the man‐in‐the‐street, steam was one of the forms of propulsion used until the early ‘thirties’ but when the internal combustion engine finally won the day, efforts were concentrated on finding something better than the friction clutch and manually operated gearbox for use in conjunction with this type of engine. Before World War II several fully automatic transmissions for passenger cars had already been developed, especially in the U.S.A., and it was during this war that these transmissions found application in fighting vehicles. With the return of peace, motor manufacturers turned to fully automatic transmissions in a big way. It is hardly surprising, considering the generally advanced state of mechanisation in that country, that in the volume production of this type of transmission the U.S. again took the lead. Also, the large output of the domestic motor industry offered the best chances for a favourable return on the considerable capital investments inherent to volume production of complex transmission designs.

Profiles heavy buyers of store brand products and compares them with light buyers in terms of demographics, socio‐economic, and attitudinal variables. The results suggest that younger, unmarried, and smaller sized households tend to avoid store brands. As compared with heavy buyers, light buyers of store brands are less familiar with them and perceive them to be of lower quality, less value for money and as riskier choices.