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Book Review: 'Marketing without advertising: brand preference and consumer choice in Cuba' by Emilio Morales and Joseph L. Scarpaci
No full textAliakbar Jafari reviews Marketing without advertising: brand preference and consumer choice in Cuba by Emilio Morales and Joseph L. Scarpac
Land and water requirements for the supply of renewable heating and transport energy using anaerobic digestion and water electrolysis. A case study for the UK
No full textCRediT authorship contribution statement Shawn Pinto: Methodology, Investigation. Aliakbar Jamshidi Far: Writing - review & editing, Validation. Davide Dionisi: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Investigation, Supervision.Peer reviewe
Book Review: 'The Halal Frontier: muslim consumers in a globalized market' by Johan Fischer
No full textIn this book review, Aliakbar Jafari looks at Jonhan Fischer's continuation of his anthropological exploration of Muslim Malaysians' consumption practices, focusing on food consumption among Muslim Malays in London. The book's core value to marketers lies in demonstrating how macro and micro factors affect the production, distribution and consumption of food among Muslim consumers. Overall, Jafari describes the book as rich in terms of providing multiple insights into the complexities associated with regulating and practising the Halal. Yet, suggests that the narrative could be strengthened by explaining the possible impact of the colonial history of the country on the population's interest in religion as a sign of reviving self-pride
Globalization, reflexivity and the project of the self : a virtual intercultural learning process
No full textIn this paper, we examine the consumption practices of young adult Iranians in the context of cultural globalization. Based on analysis of qualitative data collected through participatory observation, in-depth interviews and focus groups with 28 individuals in Tehran and Karaj, we demonstrate how, through its cultural flow (circulation of images, signs, products, etc.) globalization stimulates reflexivity in ‘an ongoing process of virtual intercultural learning’ through which people reconstitute their lives and change their everyday consumption practices and lifestyle choices. The key contribution of the study lies in the fact that it examines consumers’ subjective consumption experiences in a society where the traditional/institutional dynamics enforce their own values and ideal lifestyles on individuals
Poverty and socioeconomic injustice in Muslim geographies
No full textThis chapter critiques the extant literature’s lack of attention to poverty and socioeconomic injustice in Muslim geographies and offers a research agenda to critically examine these phenomena in the context of Islamic consumptionscapes. The authors locate the recent interest in understanding the connections between Islam, consumption and markets within the neoliberal political economy and argue that the subject of the existing research has mostly been the relatively wealthy, educated and urban Muslim consumers. Noting that a significant portion of Muslim geographies are characterized by poverty, underdevelopment and socioeconomic inequality, the authors advocate a critical research perspective on poor Muslim consumers
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
Damage-plasticity model for FRP-confined normal-strength and high-strength concrete
No full textPublished online on May 9, 2016.Abstract not availableTogay Ozbakkaloglu, Aliakbar Gholampour, and Jian C. Li
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