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The Wine Attributes with the Greatest Influence in the Process of Consumer Choice in Spain
No full textThe commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances: the decrease in wine consumption because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks and the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the interior market, which involves an increase in business competitiveness. The increase in competitiveness of quality Spanish wine depends on producing enterprises’ knowledge of wine consumer preferences so they can offer consumers what they demand. In order to respond to this matter and better adapt supply, 421 wine consumers were surveyed using the Best-Worst Scaling methodology. Various segmentations were also made by consumer income and age groups. The results indicate that the two main attributes which condition consumers in choosing wine are the region of origin and having tasted it previously. The region of origin attribute is valued in general by consumers over 34 years old who have a monthly family income above 1,500 €. The attribute of having tasted it before, which on many occasions is associated with the price attribute, is valued particularly by younger consumers and those with lower incomes.Consumer behaviour, Wine attributes, Food Marketing, Consumer/Household Economics,
Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres talk at University of Washington Tacoma: After Latino Metropolis
No full textThe role of class and spatial politics in Latino Los Angeles will be the subject of this timely talk. Professor Rodolfo D. Torres is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He will revisit this important book
How corporate governance and globalization can run afoul of the law and good practices in business: The Enron's disgraceful affair.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to set out the Enron’s demise into the perspective of Corporate and Global Governance. To accomplish this target, the incremental cash flow model is expanded to give room for governance issues, while a functional introduction to information sets is developed, including bounded rationality, asymmetric information, opportunistic behavior, transaction costs and agency problems. Then, corporate governance is linked to globalization by means of some recent approaches that go beyond a narrow economic mindset to encompass a far-reaching dynamics. Taking advantage of such background, the Enron’s story is tracked down over a span of fifteen years since its starting day to its bankruptcy filing. Leading events are explained from corporate and global governance viewpoints, while an in-depth analysis is worked out on Enron’s complex game of deception and breach of contracts: the outrageous affiliated limited partnerships, the lavish pay package to its executives, the involvement with global governance through the Indian affair and the Taliban connection. It is for the incremental cash flow model to explain malfeasance with cash flows from assets, and how cash flows to creditors were actually contrived. Furthermore, to highlight how cash flows were swindled from stockholders and, finally, how Enron made wheeling and dealing with cash flows on behalf of its managers.corporate governance, global governance, incremental cash flow model, globalization, information sets, good practices.
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo
Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the
expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the
compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in
Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the
institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean
nationalityEn este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética
personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el
lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo.
Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el
estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las
lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual
el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
‘Based on a true story’: Ethnography’s impact as a narrative form
No full textThis introduction argues that ethnography should be understood and practiced as a form of storytelling. Symons and Maggio propose placing ethnographic writing alongside other narrative genres such as fiction, biography, poetry, and oral storytelling, emphasizing its power to engage, persuade, and move audiences. Rather than treating stories merely as data, the authors highlight their aesthetic, emotional, and rhetorical force in conveying anthropological insight. Through the contributions to the collection, the article shows how different narrative styles shape ethnographic meaning, reflexivity, and audience engagement, advocating for a more creative and accessible anthropology grounded in storytelling
Archeologi in progress. Il cantiere dell'archeologia di domani
No full textAtti del V Convegno Nazionale dei Giovani Archeologi, Catania (ex Monastero dei Benedettini, sede del Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche dell’Università di Catania), 23-26 maggio 2013.
Fondamento dell'iniziativa è la consapevolezza che la tutela e la valorizzazione del nostro patrimonio culturale passino necessariamente attraverso la formazione e la ricerca: non si può tutelare ciò che non si conosce, ciò di cui non percepiamo il valore. Pertanto, scopo dell'iniziativa è lavorare sodo per colmare il divario tra addetti ai lavori e società civile, gettando le basi per un'archeologia sempre più "pubblica" e una tutela sociale sempre più attiva
El funcionalismo de rodolfo lenz
No full textSummary
This paper deals with the contributions to Hispanic Linguistics by the German-Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz (1863–1935), some of whose proposals – often attributed to other scholars – may be seen as an alternative to the ideas of the prestigious Andrés Bello (1781–1865). The paper first reviews those aspects of his work which anticipate some of the basic tenets of Functional Grammar, such as the notion of ‘transposition’ (function shifting), his views on sentential structure, and his treatment of passives as attributive constructions. The paper also explores Lenz’s contributions to Indo-European linguistics and his theoretical affinities with, if not anticipations of, the work of other well-known linguists like Búhler, Tesnière, Hjelmslev, and Benveniste. In sum, the author seeks to vindicate Rodolfo Lenz and his insightful views in both general linguistic theory and Spanish grammar.</jats:p
“I was at Home!” The Dream of Representation in the Representation of a Dream.
No full textThis creative essay uses a dream the author had during fieldwork as the starting point for a discussion of the conundrums of representation. The dream epitomises the alterations that observation causes on the portions of reality that the ethnographer selects and concentrates upon. The rest of the essay tells of how the author attempted to find his own personal solution to the problem of representation thanks to inspiration found in a photo exhibition and the letter of a friend and mentor. Such interpenetration of oneiric, photographic, and epistolary materials works as a pretext to discuss the importance of remaining faithful to the anthropological mission of making people visible and not being hindered by the methodological impossibility of representation
Rodolfo Lenz
No full textIn this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean nationality.En este trabajo el autor se propone dar una visión de conjunto de la polifacética personalidad del Dr. Rodolfo Lenz: el hombre, el fonetista, el araucanista, el lexicógrafo, el gramático, el ortógrafo, el metodólogo, el científico compulsivo. Aspectos todos que contribuyeron a renovar profundamente en Chile el estudio de las ciencias del lenguaje, la metodología de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras y la fundación del folclor como ciencia, por todo lo cual el Gobierno le confirió nuestra nacionalida
Tres propuestas escénicas para "La Granada" de Rodolfo Walsh
No full textLa obra dramática de Rodolfo Walsh mereció muy poco atención por parte de la crítica. La autora de este artículo analiza tres diferentes puestas en escena de La granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), como un modo de hacer justicia a la tarea creativa del prestigioso escritor, desaparecido por la última dictadura miliar argentina, en 1977.The dramatic texts of Rodolfo Walsh have received little critical attention. The author of this paper focuses on three different stagings of La Granada (1965, 1985 y 2003), as a way of rendering of what is due to the prestigious writer, desaparecido by the argentine military dictatorship on 1977.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
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