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Investigating how markets are becoming increasingly similar across
countries while simultaneously becoming more diverse and
heterogeneous within countries, this timely Handbook explores novel
and under-researched sub-cultural marketing segments. Contributions
from a diverse group of established and emerging marketing scholars
examine how we might better understand and serve new generations of
consumers from a variety of generational, ethnic, and religiously
diverse market segments. Cognisant of the cultural diversity within
cultures, the Handbook considers the ethical ramifications of
culture- and race-based targeting and segmentation, advancing a
culture-based marketing approach that addresses the similarities
and differences across groups while recognising the variety that
exists within them. Chapters explore a compelling array of topics,
from advocating for a departure from the white, Eurocentric, and
heteronormative ideals that dominate the global beauty industry and
investigating how Hip Hop's move into the mainstream raises
questions about authenticity and cultural appropriation, to
addressing the role played by religion in consumer behaviour and
mapping the diverse and complex markets of Latin America and Asia.
Featuring multidisciplinary research which builds towards a more
vibrant ethnic and sub-cultural marketing literature, this
compelling Handbook will inform and inspire the work of current and
future marketing scholars. It will also be an essential resource
for corporations interested in targeting ethnic and religious
marketing segments.
Disillusionment with globalization, along with a rise in
nationalist sentiment, may lead us to ask whether cross-cultural or
international research will be necessary in the coming years and,
if it is, what form it will take. While all international marketing
is cross-cultural, not all cross-cultural marketing is
international. Cultures are defined as groups of people who share a
common language, set of norms, institutions, beliefs and values.
There are many ways such groups can be defined - only one of which
is country. Regardless of the definition parameters, one thing
remains clear: cross-cultural marketing is a broad topic in today's
technological, always-connected world. This Handbook suggests
future directions for cross-cultural marketing research in a
rapidly evolving global environment. It builds upon existing models
and topics, addresses the methodological challenges of
cross-cultural research, and provides applied examples spanning
various methodologies as well as industry sectors and country
settings. In addition, contributors present new paradigms for
future research. Cross-cultural marketing research scholars, Ph.D.
students and cross-cultural and international marketing
practitioners will benefit from this thorough examination of
current trends as well as forward thinking concepts from some of
the field's foremost experts.
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A collection of 200 iconic drinks from around the globe, each of
which has changed the culture of the cocktail A signature cocktail
is a bespoke drink that expresses the nature of the time, person,
or place for which it was created. In this book, the author curates
a collection of the most celebrated cocktails – from well-known
classics such as the Bellini, to the up-to-the-minute Twin Cities
from New York’s ultra-hip Dead Rabbit bar. Signature cocktails
have become an increasingly popular way to define the style and
character of a celebrated establishment and the talented
mixologists behind them. Each unique drink in this collection is
accompanied by the name of the creator, place and date of
invention, alongside a specially commissioned image, easy-to-follow
recipe, and a fascinating insight into its unique story. Covering
almost 600 years of cocktail history, this elegant and uniquely
focussed collection will appeal to a wide range of readers – from
lovers of cocktails to everyone who enjoys entertaining, food, and
culture, to mixologists, bartenders, and industry professionals.
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Meet Miffy - a lovable little bunny who likes to find the wonder in
everyday things. With over 50 lovely stickers you can explore the
outdoors with Miffy and learn all about her favourite places, then
create beautiful scenes of Miffy and her friends. Share this
sticker book with your child to encourage imagination, relate to a
child's first experiences, and practise dexterity and fine motor
skills.Perfect for any Miffy fan!
The history of economics comprises the accumulated capital of the
discipline; its study permits both the retrieval of important ideas
and the conduct of analysis which places present day work in
context. The essays in this book demonstrate some of the variety of
uses to which the history of economics, as a sub-discipline, can be
put.Economic Thought and Discourse in the 20th Century commences
with an essay on John R. Hicks, one of the leading economic
theorists of the twentieth century and a writer with much to say
about the nature of economic theory and the functions of the
history of economic thought. An essay on Thorstein Veblen examines
a figure who is at once both idiosyncratic and monumental, and
whose work on war and peace is seen both to have been deeply
prescient at the time it was written, and to be critically relevant
at the close of the twentieth century. The third piece in this
collection is a study of the discursive and interpretative
structure of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics. More than a
century after its publication, the Principles is widely regarded as
one of the most important, and immediately influential, works of
economic science ever written. Yet, it is argued, Marshall's use of
language and argument may well have been equal in importance to the
analytical techniques which he demonstrated. The concluding essay
on the early journal history of law and economics places in
perspective much of the contemporary work in this area and suggests
that more could be expected from a field with such a rich and
suggestive history. These essays will make significant
contributions both to their respective subjects and to the
historiography of economics.
This book provides readers from academia and industry with an
up-to-date overview of important advances in the field, dealing
with such fundamental fluid mechanics problems as nonlinear
transport phenomena and optimal control of mixing at the micro- and
nanoscale.
The editors provide both in-depth knowledge of the topic as well as
vast experience in guiding an expert team of authors. The review
style articles offer a coherent view of the micromixing methods,
resulting in a much-needed synopsis of the theoretical models
needed to direct experimental research and establish engineering
principles for future applications.
Since these processes are governed by nonlinear phenomena, this
book will appeal to readers from both communities: fluid mechanics
and nonlinear dynamics.
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in a brand-new trilogy where evil hides in plain sight and the only thing more dangerous than fighting demons is falling in love. Chain of Gold is a Shadowhunters novel.
Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to Edwardian London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.
But Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before—these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. London is immediately quarantined. Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to an dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers—and force a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero.
Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of
Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream
economics, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a
genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of
the economic mainstream through its ancestry, which allows for a
definition of the mainstream that is separate from politically
charged categories or gridlocked academic arguments between
received schools of thought. The book follows the evolution of the
economic mainstream through four major transformations of the
discipline: from political to analytical economics, debates around
a logical empiricist economics, the consolidation of neoclassical
economics, and the recent expansion of the mainstream. For each of
these steps, the key point of departure is explored, illustrated
through the work of leading authors at the time. Thus, the book
draws on recent research from the history of economic thought and
debates the crucial role of historic concepts of economics for
alternativity in the field. To put the approach into practice, it
examines the relation between today's mainstream economics and two
of its alternatives: ecological economics and degrowth. Finally,
the book reflects on recent exciting developments in the discourse
on alternativity and sheds light on some distant relatives of
today's mainstream. This book marks a significant contribution to
the literature on the debates around the state and nature of
mainstream, alternative, and heterodox economics.
The customer is the only one who can fire all of us. -Sam Walton
Doing business in today's economy and surviving requires a new
paradigm. Who are at the center of this new approach to doing
business? CONSUMERS. Historically, power struggles have raged
between suppliers and distributors. Recently, both parties awakened
to the fact that neither of them has the ultimate power . . . it
now resides solely with the consumer. This valuable book describes
what demassification of the consumer market means and will show you
howand whybusinesses must adapt to succeed. Handy charts, tables,
and illustrations make the information easy to understand, and
fascinating sidebar quotations from well-known leaders of various
industriesSam Walton, Jack Welch, and many moregive the book a
unique and memorable flavor. Consumers, say the authors, not only
demand higher quality and lower prices, but also expect convenient,
quick, customized service. They expect in-stock conditions and
quality. They demand value and respect. Global markets mean large
numbers of consumers, but these consumers want to be treated as
individuals, and the mass market no longer exists. Companies in
industries from financial services to groceries to consumer goods
to health care to hardware to automobiles are adopting these new
business processes and winning in the marketplace. Their
competitors are falling by the wayside. This essential book:
examines the factors that are shaping the current business
environment and looks at the re-orientation of today's consumer,
presenting global perspectives on these vital issues explores this
new consumer-centric approach from the perspectives of suppliers,
intermediaries, and retailers, as well as the business processes
being used to create more efficient supply chains and more
effective demand fulfillment processes shows you the tools that can
be used to implement this new business paradigm in the areas of
technology, internal business processes, and collaboration answers
frequently asked questions shares the success stories of Rite Aid,
Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Snap-On Tools, National
Semiconductor, and others! After addressing the issues of why
business must change and examining the significance of a global
business environment, The Consumer . . . or Else! addresses each
element of the new business paradigm: the new role of consumers
major players, including the shift in the business processes of
retailers and manufacturers and the role of intermediaries new
business processes, with a focus on technology, internal
coordination, and collaboration Companies from Dell Computer to Del
Monte are putting consumers first and reaping the sales benefits.
General Mills will soon provide consumers with the opportunity to
create and name their own custom cereal. As the authors point out,
The business process is changing-changing the way product flows,
the way information flows, and the way cash flows. Companies that
recognize this need to change will hold huge competitive
advantages, and the companies that fail to adapt will simply not be
here in the future. Let The Consumer . . . or Else!:
Consumer-Centric Business Paradigms be your guidebook to this
challenging new business climate.
Through Newer Insights Into Marketing: Cross-Cultural and
Cross-National Perspectives, you will discover the need for an
integration of perspectives as an essential ingredient for
successfully managing increased globalization amid an increasing
emphasis on cultural identity. In this compelling volume, the
authors examine the European as well as the US approaches to
cultural understanding. As a result, this book identifies issues
that need further study and resolution so you can integrate this
new knowledge into your marketing strategy. From this insightful
book you will discover new marketing strategy models, including the
sequence of steps and description of tools. Most importantly, this
book discusses the integration of information required by the use
of the tools to provide you with an excellent method for creating
unique insights about the marketplace and the potential for
competitive marketing strategies. Through Newer Insights Into
Marketing you will discover enlightening new ideas to help you
improve your marketing strategies by: examining the process of
adaptation to build successful relationships in organizational
networks among firms with headquarters in different countries
discovering what the authors found when they investigated the
effects of cigarette advertising and anti-smoking advertising in
Australia and Malaysia analyzing case studies of buyer-seller
relationships from the telecommunications industry to illustrate
buyer-seller adaptations processes at work providing you with the
basis for speculation on the forces governing inter-firm adaptation
realizing the importance of investigating not only cultural
differences by country but cultural differences by other groupings
of consumers as well, such as age and socio economic status With
Newer Insights Into Marketing: Cross-Cultural and Cross-National
Perspectives, you will discover the importance of including
cultural differences in your research design to better understand
the relationship between globalization and ethnic perspectives.
This excellent collection of articles provides you with a framework
for acknowledging cultural differences, studying and understanding
cultural differences, and integrating that knowledge so you can
improve your international and cross-cultural business techniques.
Questions related to managing people in hostile environments have
become more central on the agenda of business leaders and HR
professionals in multinational corporations (MNCs). This is due to
developments such as the increase of terrorism or the political
instability in many regions. In consequence, research on the role
of HR in hostile environments has increased, though it can still be
considered in its early stages. Danger and Risk as Challenges for
HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments adds to this emerging
field of research by investigating the management of people in
hostile environments from conceptual as well as empirical
perspectives. It delivers an essential and comprehensive overview
and gives deep insight into this highly relevant topic from leading
authors in the field. This book will be of great value to scholars
and researchers interested in the role of human resource management
(HRM) in hostile environments, people management in companies in
conflict-affected areas and to those interested in new grounds in
HR Research. The chapters in this book were originally published as
a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource
Management.
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making.
Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of
extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that
have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two
centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the
cultural forms used to document and interpret these events.
Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua
Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness
appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to
changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these
extinction events also involves examining what happens when the
conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude
are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close
readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together
environmental humanities and multispecies methods with
media-specific analyses at the terminus of life. What Is
Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography,
the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human
origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last
fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich
that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current
pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely
interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have
changed in the past and continue to change in the present.
A distinctive discussion of the nonlinear dynamical phenomena of
semiconductor lasers.
The book combines recent results of quantum dot laser modeling with
mathematical details and an analytic understanding of nonlinear
phenomena in semiconductor lasers and points out possible
applications of lasers in cryptography and chaos control. This
interdisciplinary approach makes it a unique and powerful source of
knowledge for anyone intending to contribute to this field of
research.
By presenting both experimental and theoretical results, the
distinguished authors consider solitary lasers with nano-structured
material, as well as integrated devices with complex feedback
sections. In so doing, they address such topics as the bifurcation
theory of systems with time delay, analysis of chaotic dynamics,
and the modeling of quantum transport. They also address
chaos-based cryptography as an example of the technical application
of highly nonlinear laser systems.
What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new
philosophical field has emerged. "Existential risk" studies any
real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant
future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway
global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial
intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics,
statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman
advocacy that would aim to supersede almost all extinction
scenarios. The proponents of existential risk thinking, led by
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, have seen their work gain immense
popularity, attracting endorsement from Bill Gates and Elon Musk,
millions of dollars, and millions of views. Calamity Theory is the
first book to examine the rise of this thinking and its failures to
acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk
than others and what it implies about human extinction.
Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of
breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and
finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in
notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal
articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray
literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and
speculation take place in scholarship.
This book draws on both traditional and emerging fields of study to
consider consider what a grounded definition of quantitative and
qualitative research in the Digital Humanities (DH) might mean;
which areas DH can fruitfully draw on in order to foster and
develop that understanding; where we can see those methods applied;
and what the future directions of research methods in Digital
Humanities might look like. Schuster and Dunn map a wide-ranging DH
research methodology by drawing on both 'traditional' fields of DH
study such as text, historical sources, museums and manuscripts,
and innovative areas in research production, such as knowledge and
technology, digital culture and society and history of network
technologies. Featuring global contributions from scholars in the
United Kingdom, the United States, Europe and Australia, this book
draws together a range of disciplinary perspectives to explore the
exciting developments offered by this fast-evolving field.
Routledge International Handbook of Research Methods in Digital
Humanities is essential reading for anyone who teaches, researches
or studies Digital Humanities or related subjects.
This book brings rhetorical, legal, and professional communication
perspectives to the discourse surrounding policy-making efforts
within the United States around two types of violent crimes against
women: domestic violence and sexual assault. The authors propose
that such analysis adds to our understanding of rhetorical concepts
such as kairos, risk perception, moral panic, genre analysis, and
identity theory. Overall, the goal is to demonstrate how
rhetorical, legal, and professional communication perspectives work
together to illuminate public discourse and conflict in such
complicated and ongoing dilemmas as how to aid victims of domestic
violence and sexual assault, and how to manage the offenders of
such crimes-social and cultural problems that continue to perplex
the legal system and the social environment.
Say hello to Miffy and meet all her friends - as seen on TINY POP
TV! Then have fun colouring in each scene and finding out about
different seasons. Colouring with Miffy encourages imagination,
improves dexterity, concentration and motor skills, and helps
children recognise first words.Â
In any policy arena, the crafting of effective policy depends on
the quality of the information infrastructure that is available to
the participants in that arena. Such an information infrastructure
is designed, developed, and managed as a critical element in policy
formulation and implementation. While various attempts have been
made to map the extent of the existing cultural policy information
infrastructure in the United States, no structured attempt has been
made to conduct a cross-national analysis intended to draw on the
more highly developed models already in operation elsewhere.A
cross-national comparative look provides valuable information on
how this infrastructure has evolved, on what has succeeded and what
has had less success, on what is sustainable and what is not, and
on how the range of interests of the various individuals and
institutions involved in the cultural policy arena can best be
accommodated through careful design of the information
infrastructure.In Informing Cultural Policy, international cultural
policy scholar and researcher J. Mark Schuster relates the findings
of a study that took him from North America to Europe to gain
understanding of the cultural policy information infrastructure in
place abroad. His findings are structured into a taxonomy that
organizes the array of research and information models operating
throughout the world into a logical framework for understanding how
the myriad cultural agencies collect, analyze, and disseminate
cultural policy data. Schuster discusses private- and public-sector
models, including research divisions of government cultural funding
agencies, national statistics agencies, independent nonprofit
research institutes, government-designated university-based
research centers, private consulting firms, cultural
"observatories," non-institutional networks, research programs, and
publications. For each case study undertaken, the author provides
the Internet address, names, and information for key contacts, and
background documents consulted.
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