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...

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...

Sound and civic engagement -- The lure of audio recording -- Newfoundlanders on record : from the 1950s to the early 1970s -- A unique music industry -- The trouble with genre -- Sonic signatures -- Past and possibilities : audio recording and/as action -- Just because you can : the RPM...

"Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics sets out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining, one of the...

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Politics of recuperation. An introduction / Francisco Martínez -- Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in rural Portugal / Ema Pires -- Beautiful people eat ugly fruit: Ugliness and the cracks of the system / André...

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview material, observations,...

This series epitomizes the 2017 Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) conference themes of hyper-reality and cultural hybridization. The partnership of the co-editors, with diverse backgrounds including Caribbean, Mexican and Indian roots, itself depicts cultural hybridity, culminating in a series of...

Werbung gibt es, seit Menschen anderen etwas verkaufen wollen, also schon immer. Als eigener Wirtschaftszweig mit theoretischer Fundierung hat sie sich aber erst seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg etabliert. Der Band versammelt die wichtigsten Texte zum Begriff der Marke, zu den Methoden der Werbung, zu...

This book explores the illusions that pervade contemporary consumption as well as the forces of globalization, localization, and hybridization that affect consumption throughout our interconnected world.