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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Somebody Knows Something: Managerial Ability, Product Development, and Return‐on‐Investment in a Hit‐Driven Industry

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In hit‐driven industries, product development is associated with a right‐skewed unconditional distribution of performance, and products in the right tail have outsized impacts. Understanding how exceptional performance is generated can improve resource allocation, but the literature advances two different narratives: one emphasizes postrelease
Darren Filson
wiley   +1 more source

Walt Disney

open access: yes, 2020
Walt Disney (1901–1966) is one of history’s most dynamic examples of a man who dreamed the impossible and made it possible. He was both a business and creative entrepreneur who has had an everlasting impact on twentieth century animation, entertainment, and culture.
openaire   +2 more sources

Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper shows that product positioning affects the incentives to invest in process innovation. The result is found using a model of price competition with three firms under horizontal product differentiation—and then extended to a more general Bertrand triopoly.
Emanuele Bacchiega, Paolo G. Garella
wiley   +1 more source

Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
wiley   +1 more source

Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Queer Aesthetics, Straight Markets: Disneyfication in the Korean Musical Dorian Gray: A New Musical (2016)

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) has generated a long afterlife across global media, extending from literature to theater, film, and fandom. Its Korean musical adaptation, Dorian Gray: A New Musical (2016), illustrates how queer aesthetics are reconfigured under the logics of commercial entertainment and cultural export.
Di Cotofan Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Decisions Under Radical Uncertainty: The Role of Volitional Liminality in Radical Innovation

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Radical innovation management can be understood as an organizational practice that enacts distant futures, which are open‐ended and unknowable. Such radical innovation endeavors are thus characterized by radical uncertainty, where possible futures are not only quantitatively but qualitatively different from the present, and ...
José Antonio Rosa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gregorini v. Shyamalan: Can Access Trump Similarity in a Globalised Digital Age?

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract On the 20th February 2025, the final judgement of Gregorini v. Shyamalan rejected director Gregorini's claims that the show ‘Servant’ produced by Apple TV+ copied her independent film ‘The Truth About Emanuel’. Infringement can be established by proving substantial similarity and access to the work.
Anna Monnereau
wiley   +1 more source

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