"Independent booksellers emerged and developed rapidly across China since the mid-2000s. Unlike independent booksellers in the West - which generally means a store that isn't part of a chain like Waterstones or Barnes and Noble - independent bookstores in the Chinese context are rarely privately...

Art history may be at a turning point in the adoption of a quantitative approach typical of social sciences, and this book is a brilliant manifesto for this. It will be a fascinating reading for economic historians and cultural economists, and will hopefully foster interdisciplinary research,...

"Introducing the founding principles of the novel paradigm: Culture Based Development (CBD), Annie Tubadji presents a structured explanation of why people love and hate; why people act in the way that they do; and how this ultimately impacts the entire economy. Drawing on nearly two decades of...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die kulturelle Innovationstätigkeit staatlicher deutscher Theater am Beispiel des bevölkerungsreichsten Bundeslandes Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW). Während bisherige Diagnosen, einschließlich die sozialstrukturell geprägte Publikumsforschung, die...

Research on cultural omnivorousness—the concept conceptualized originally as the ability to expand one's cultural preferences—continues to grow in prominence in studies of the cultural dimension of social stratification. Given recent inconsistent empirical findings, this study returned to...

This paper examines how the concept of embedded culture played a transformative role in the ongoing cultural revolution within economics and business. We trace the field's shift from the 20th-century concept of homo economicus universalis to an approach incorporating cultural embeddedness in...

Feminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new 'superwoman' ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough. This media myth is fertile ground for harmful practices that focus on a woman's own body and of course for specific consumerist...

Chapter 1. Intimate Capitalism Unveiled -- Chapter 2. Making of Intimate Capitalism: From Cultural Economy to Creative and Cultural Industries -- Chapter-3. An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries -- Chapter 4. Craft...

This is the definition of ‘Consumer Culture’ in the book ‘Elgar Encyclopedia of Consumer Behavior’. Modern commercial landscapes are characterized by rapidly evolving markets, and this authoritative Encyclopedia acts as an essential navigational guide to such changeable consumer...

This study aims to offer a formal analysis which relates provision of cultural goods to the society's level of cultural capital. Such a level is assumed to already exist in society and is increasable thanks to individual support for the offer of cultural goods. The achievement of the highest...

This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, aiming at preventing school dropout and tackling educational inequalities by providing...

The focus of this paper is the impact of parental cultural capital on offspring's occupational choice in relation to entrepreneurship. Despite growing interest to cultural motives for entrepreneurship on an individual level, few studies link these two domains empirically. This study follows the...

Cultural capital is usually defined as set of social features that provide individuals with social mobility and the possibility of changing their hierarchical position in systems such as wealth, power, prestige, education, and health. Cultural capital thus affects the processes of social...

1. Authenticity: A Polemial Concept -- 2. The Concept of Authenticity in the Broader Literature -- 3. Authenticity in Marketing: Reality or Oxymoron -- 4. Building Brand Authenticity: The Managerial Perspective -- 5. Authenticity: Is It Really What Consumers Want? -- 6. The Study of...

Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...

Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland have been consistently the most favourable to immigration while eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic and Hungary have been the least favourable. Despite their relatively high average levels of support for immigration, however,...

Introducing Central Questions in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Across Cultures and Regions -- Entrepreneurship in China: Autoethnographic Insights into a Pulsating Entrepreneurial Society -- Institutional Differences and Opportunity Exploitation: A Comparison of Managerial Ties Utilization in Asia...