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Religious 'speculation': the rise of Ifa cults and consumption in post-Soviet Cuba [PDF]
, 2004 With an ethnographic focus on the prestigious cult of Ifá, this article seeks to account for the recent effervescence of Afro-Cuban cult worship in urban Cuba.
Holbraad, M
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Conspicious Consumption, Economic Growth, and Taxation: A Generalization [PDF]
This paper studies the infuence of consumption externalities in the Ramsey model. In contrast to the recent literature, a quite general specification of preferences is used and the concept of the effective intertemporal elasticity of substitution is ...
Fisher, Walter H., Hof, Franz X.
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Conspicuous Ethical Consumption
Theoretical Economics Letters, 2019 This paper considers a group of consumers who have preferences over how a good is produced and distributed, rather its traits alone. Moreover, it is hypothesized that ethical preferences also depend on prices, and that prices inform consumers about the way goods are produced and distributed.
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Major Cybersecurity Breaches: Shaping Corporate Cybersecurity Policies and Closing the Gaps
Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digitalization accelerates, cybercrime has intensified in both scale and impact over the past two decades. This study aims to critically examine major cybersecurity events, assess them through the lens of routine activity theory, examine insight from three other established criminological and organizational theories, and address central ...
Laura K. Rickett, Deborah Smith
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Redistribution and the Notion of Social Status [PDF]
In this paper we study the impact of redistributive policies when agents can signal their relative standing by spending on a conspicuous good. In particular, we analyze how the shape of the status function (i.e.
Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
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Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, EarlyView.This retrospective study analyzed and compared antimicrobial resistance patterns of common bacterial pathogens before (October 2018–March 2020) and during (April 2020–December 2022) the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana's Northern Region. Amoxiclav (p = 0.027), ceftazidime (p = 0.002), ciprofloxacin (p = 0.001), gentamycin (p = 0.035), and meropenem (p < 0 ...
Hisham Alhassan Osumanu +14 more
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The success of luxury brands in Japan and their uncertain future [PDF]
The Japanese are the world?s largest individual consumers of luxury brands and form the second largest market for luxury goods after the US. The Japanese were the driving force behind the exponential growth of the European luxury industry and the ...
Ronald J. Degen
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Conspicuous Consumption in the United States and China [PDF]
, 2014 I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her ...
Jinkins, David
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The situational Samaritan: How group reputation threat shapes reparatory behavior
Journal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Consumers often act to correct the wrongdoings of people close to them, such as family members or friends. The current research demonstrates that consumers may also engage in a variety of reparatory behaviors—from a simple apology to gift‐giving and tipping—to counter the misdeeds of in‐group strangers when their behavior threatens the ...
Julia Von Schuckmann +3 more
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Interrelationships among Facets of Self, Motivation, and Conspicuous and Sustainable Consumption Behaviour [PDF]
International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2015 The current study focuses on a process the current researchers label intra-negotiation-which deals with resolution of an individual's potential conflict across facets of oneself-and its influence on two distinctly different kinds of consumption (one ...
Nguyen, T. +3 more
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