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Consuming the consumers

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2011
Previous sociolinguistic research concerning the use of Hawai‘i Creole (HC) in public discourse has posited a link between a negative public image and subsequent discouragement of its use by government and media (e.g. Romaine 1999; Sato 1989, 1991, 1994), except in some limited venues.
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Consumer-to-Consumer Product Trading With Strategic Consumer Behaviors in the Sharing Economy

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023
Technological advancements have led to an increase in the popularity of consumer-to-consumer product trading (C2C-PT). How C2C-PT affects the manufacturer (called the “firm”) and consumers in the market is unclear. We, therefore, build analytical models to explore this problem.
Juzhi Zhang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Ya-Jun Cai
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Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming

Critical Review, 1994
The tendency to denigrate consumerism derives from the widespread acceptance of sociological theories that represent consumers as prompted by such reprehensible motives as greed, pride, or envy. These theories are largely unsubstantiated and fail to address the distinctive features of modern consumption, such as the apparent insatiability of wants and ...
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Consumer Fetish: Commercial Ethnography and the Sovereign Consumer

Organization Studies, 2015
What is the sovereign consumer that occupies such a central role in organizational discourse whose satisfaction has become an organizational imperative? Our research draws from extended fieldwork in the world of commercial ethnography. Our analysis shows how ethnography is implicated in the organizational fetishization of consumers, that is, how in the
Arnould, Eric, Cayla, Julien
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Consumer-to-Consumer Internet Auction Models

International Journal of Online Marketing, 2011
Internet auctions have become an increasingly common method for exchanging goods and services across the world both among consumers themselves, as well as between businesses and consumers. These Internet auction mechanisms have the scope of incorporating procedures of much greater complexity and variety, and they exhibit characteristics and properties ...
Timothy L. Y. Leung, William J. Knottenbelt   +1 more
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Trust in consumer-to-consumer electronic commerce

Information & Management, 2008
We developed a model of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce trust and tested it. We expected that two influences: internal (natural propensity to trust [NPT] and perception of web site quality [PWSQ]) and external (other's trust of buyers/sellers [OTBS] and third party recognition [TPR]) would affect an individual's trust in C2C e-commerce.
Kiku Jones, Lori N. K. Leonard
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Consumer-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce

Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 2007
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce is a growing area of e-commerce. However, according to a meta-analysis of critical themes of e-commerce, C2C e-commerce was only represented in the area of online auctions (Wareham, Zheng, & Straub, 2005). C2C e-commerce can encompass much more than just auctions. The question then becomes, “is C2C e-commerce a
Kiku Jones, Lori N.K. Leonard
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Consumer's Surplus, Price Instability, and Consumer Welfare

Econometrica, 1980
This paper evaluates the benefits to consumers from price stabilization in terms of the convexity-concavity properties of the consumer's indirect utility function. It is shown that in the case where only a single commodity price is stabilized, the consumer's preference for price instability depends upon four parameters: the income elasticity of demand ...
Turnovsky, Stephen J, Shalit, Haim, Schmitz, Andrew   +2 more
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Consuming and Being Consumed

2015
This chapter traces the evolution of a discourse of consumption and predation throughout the Victorian period. The East India Company’s transformation from a commercial concern into a government was accompanied by intense public debate over its role in India, focusing on economic relationships of exploitation, and moral relationships of corruption ...
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Introduction: Consumer and Consumed

2016
In introducing the papers in this special issue, the authors draw attention to the changing relationships between humans and animals-as-food in the context of rapid increases of meat consumption and the intensification and globalisation of meat supply systems.
Staples, J, Klein, JK
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