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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexivity and Fantasy: surprising encounters from interpretation to interruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article sets out two psychoanalytically informed conceptions of fantasy as a resource for reflexivity in research. First is the fantasy as a defensive structure that distorts our perception of reality, and the use of the researcher’s affective ...
Lapping, C
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‘The Past Is Below Us’: Urban Fantasy, Urban Archaeology, and the Recovery of Suppressed History

open access: yesPapers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2013
Few literary genres have been as intimately connected with the field of archaeology as the genre of urban fantasy, which correlates with urban archaeology through a shared concern with the material history of the city.
doaj   +2 more sources

The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Administrative burden as a constraint on freedom in the modern welfare state

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The administrative burden literature has demonstrated a variety of ways in which administrative burdens can act as barriers to citizens accessing services to which they are entitled. This paper connects these insights to ideas from the Capabilities Approach to Human Development to articulate the ways that administrative burdens can be ...
Jeremiah Thomas Brown, Eleanor Malbon
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated online fantasy football platform promotes meditation activity among male-identifying undergraduate students

open access: yesDiscover Psychology
Given the growing burden of mental health disorders, the use of smartphone-based mindfulness meditation applications has drastically increased. However, such applications have failed to attract a substantial base of male users and suffer from poor ...
Samuel M. Degenhard   +1 more
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