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INNOVATION IN COMMODITIZED SERVICES: A STUDY IN THE PASSENGER AIRLINE INDUSTRY

ROTHKOPF, MAXIMILIAN; WALD, ANDREAS - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 15 (2011) 04, pp. 731-753

The purpose of this study is to analyze how innovation is leveraged in a commoditized service industry. Focusing on the passenger airline industry, we describe the characteristics of commoditized industries and show how the airline industry fulfills these criteria. Based on a sample of 30...

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The commoditization of products and taste: Slow Food and the conservation of agrobiodiversity

Lotti, Ariane - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 1, pp. 71-83

commoditization as process, this paper argues that the products and the values they embody, which Slow Food has identified for their … singularity, are commoditized through a variety of mechanisms. This paper then argues that commoditization makes the endeavors of …

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Medical Globalization: “A Fin de Siecle Phenomenon”

Miller, D. Douglas - In: Multinational Business Review 11 (2003) 3, pp. 113-142

“ecuritized” and traded as covered lives. Arbitrage of health care goods and services is creating commoditization effects …

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Hotel and catering workers: class and unionisation

Piso, Annemarie - In: Employee Relations 21 (1999) 2, pp. 176-189

A coherent theoretical class analysis of hotel and catering workers can provide a systematic means by which to explain the behaviour of these workers in reaction to their employment. By examining the class relations within this industry, the paper challenges the notion that hotel and catering...

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Nutrition and the commoditization of food in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - In: Social Science & Medicine 28 (1989) 5, pp. 425-440

hypothesis is that increasing commoditization of food has undermined Africa's food systems. This paper does not purport to prove … or disprove this. Less ambitiously, its aim is to draw attention to inter-relationships between commoditization and …

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