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Psychological and cultural insights into consumption of luxury western brands in India
No full textIndia has always had wealthy elites such as the maharajas, upper class and royalty that consume luxury products throughout its consumption history. The relatively recent economic rise of the middle class with an increase in disposable income is leading to consumption of luxury en mass. This qualitative study examines why consumers buy luxury, what they believe luxury is and how their perception of luxury impacts buying behaviour in the context of India. The present study explores luxury constructs drawn from the literature and provides some explanation for luxury consumption behaviour in India. The findings reveal that psychological and cultural factors in Indian society play a major part in shaping luxury consumption. While the findings suggest little support for homogenous luxury preference, Indian consumers share cultural characteristics of lavish consumption of luxury and display of wealth in social functions. Luxury reflects conspicuous consumption and status, and signals wealth for individuals, and conveys social identity and status in Indian society
LEON, Luis L. (Eng.)
No full textLetter from Eng. Luis L. León to Gen. Alvaro Obregón, recommeding the worker delegates of the Sonoran Revolutionary Party, Mr. Fernando Aguirre and Mr. Josée Peraza. / Carta del Ing. Luis L. León al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, recomendándole a los delegados obreros del Partido Revolucionario Sonorense, Srs. Fernando Aguirre y José Peraza
LEON, Luis L. (Eng.)
No full textLetter from Eng. Luis L. León to Gen. Alvaro Obregón, recommeding the worker delegates of the Sonoran Revolutionary Party, Mr. Fernando Aguirre and Mr. Josée Peraza. / Carta del Ing. Luis L. León al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, recomendándole a los delegados obreros del Partido Revolucionario Sonorense, Srs. Fernando Aguirre y José Peraza
sj-pdf-1-eng-10.1177_00754242211043163 – Supplemental Material for Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-eng-10.1177_00754242211043163 for Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English by Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Katherine Ireland Kuiper and Rachel M. Olsen in Journal of English Linguistics</p
Interview with James "Jim" Eng, 1997.
No full text3643 Running Springs Road, San Antonio, Texas
Born in China, Jim Eng came to San Antonio at age seven and spent the rest of his life in the close social and cultural setting of the Chinese-American community. The son of a Chinese grocer, Eng was a career civil service employee who worked at Kelly Air Force Base and at U.S. Military installations overseas
The Role of Relationally Embedded Network Ties in Resource Acquisition of British Nonprofit Organizations
No full textAs nonprofit and charity organizations face increasing competition, there have been growing interests in how nonprofit organizations conduct commercial activities to raise funds as well as grow their business. However, there is lack of prior research about market-oriented and/or commercial activities in the context of nonprofit business. This study examines the process of how nonprofit organizations use relationally embedded network ties to acquire financial, human, and human capital resources to fulfill their social mission and achieve business growth. The study investigates commercial activity of three U.K.-based nonprofit organizations using the case study method. The findings contribute to insights into components of network ties for acquiring three different network resources of financial, human, and human capital. Nonprofit organizations leverage social mission to improve their ability to acquire network resources. The findings also suggest the charity and social mission of nonprofit business enhance trustworthiness in relationally embedded network ties for resource acquisition
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Corrigendum to Adsorption kinetics and thermodynamics of azo-dye Orange II onto highly porous titania aerogel [Chemical Engineering Journal 150 (2009) 403-410]
No full text[No abstract available]Abramian L, 2009, CHEM ENG J, V150, P403, DOI 10.1016-j.cej.2009.01.0190
Closure to ‘Revelli R. and L. Ridolfi "Fuzzy approach for analysis of pipe networks", J. Hydr. Eng, ASCE, 128(1), 93-101, 2002'
No full textJ. Hydr. Eng, ASC
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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