In this paper, I argue that an elevated macro level perspective is imperative for conducting critical studies in the fields of marketing and consumer research. There are epistemic barriers to operating in this manner, and I offer several suggestions for overcoming these barriers. Finally, I...

India’s retailing sector is expected to remain in a transition spiral for the foreseeable future. Because of India’s unique context – in terms of history, regulation, institutions, demographics, geography, and traditions – there is limited applicability of the available theories of...

Drawing inspiration from the 1910 book Finanzkapital by Rudolf Hilferding, this paper explores the nature of financial capital in early 21st century from a political-economic and culture theory perspective. It offers suggestions for transcending the crises-prone contemporary economic systems....

Compared to business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is larger, growing faster and has less unequal geographical distribution globally. In this paper, we examine the current stage of B2B e-commerce development across four global regions and propose a model to...

This article is about the ability of the consumer to control his or her destiny in the new electronic marketspace. Two seemingly opposite phenomena - the need for privacy and the desire for exhibitionism and voyeurism - are vying for attention on the media landscape. We believe the simultaneous...

This viewpoint paper develops the major meta-dimensions for bubbles of various types, ranging from the hype and speculative bubbles that sometimes form around some movies to major economic bubbles such as in housing properties and financial assets like stocks. Based on these meta-dimensions, a...

Technology-aided ubiquity and instantaneity have emerged as major goals of most information technology providers and of certain classes of users such as "road warriors". New mobile technologies promise genie-in-a-bottle type near-magical qualities with anytime, anywhere access to information and...

In this paper, we present a poststructuralist analysis of customer database technology. This approach allows us to regard customer databases as configurations of language that produce new and significant discursive effects. In particular, we focus on the role of the databases and related...

This paper argues that the new "visuality" (Schroeder, 2002) of the Internet transforms the stock market into an epistemic consumption object. The aesthetics of the screen turn the market into an interactive and response-present surface representation. On the computer screen, the market becomes...

India and the People's Republic of China, whose telecommunications networks are among the largest in the world, have a number of areas for broadband use ripe for exploration. Already in 2004 with more mobile phone users than any other nation, China was one of the three fastest growing countries...