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Is the luxury industry really a financier’s dream ? [PDF]

open access: yes
Although modest in terms of sales, compared to most other sectors, luxury does get a high share of investors', financial analysts’ and media attention. Why would this sector receive a share of attention much bigger than its actual weight?
Kapferer, Jean-Noël, Tabatoni, Olivier
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Evaluating the Perception of Luxury Brands in Today\u27s Marketplace and the Impact of the Digital Age on these Brands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
“In spite of the global recession, luxury seems to be everywhere. Luxury is a term that is routinely used in our everyday life: a promise of decadence and a dream of an exclusive lifestyle, a key component of marketing management and a tagline in ...
Turner, Mary M
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A Closed‐Loop Human Resource Management Framework for Energy Efficiency: Integrating Predictive Optimization With Behavioral Implementation

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
The proposed framework operates as a continuous cycle: organizational data streams feed into predictive optimization, which generates energy efficiency targets. These targets are translated into behavioral directives through human resource management mechanisms.
Huang Juan, Aimi Binti Anuar
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting consumer acceptance of sustainable luxury using adaptive AI and ensemble machine learning

open access: yesInternational Journal of Engineering Business Management
The rise of sustainability in the luxury sector presents a paradox: for decades, luxury has been seen as antithetical to sustainability, yet younger socially conscious consumers increasingly demand eco-friendly and ethical practices from luxury brands ...
Francesco Mancusi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elegant disruption: how luxury and society can change each-other for good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper outlines the contemporary luxury sector, showing it is global, thriving and influential. It shows how creative destruction is typical in most industry sectors, including luxury, and how disruptive innovation by entrepreneurs is key to that ...
Bendell, Jem
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Conspicuous consumption and satisfaction [PDF]

open access: yes
Traditional tools of welfare economics identify the envy-related welfare loss from conspicuous consumption only under very strong assumptions. Measured income and life satisfaction offers an alternative for estimating such consumption externalities.
Rainer Winkelmann
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The Many Faces of Talent Management: Organizational Perspectives on Talent and Talent Management Practices in Jordan

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Talent management involves the systematic planning, acquisition, development, performance management, engagement, and retention of employees identified as “talent.” Little is known about the relationship between organizations' talent perspectives and talent management practices.
Amro Aljbour, Erica French, Muhammad Ali
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking law in books versus law in action in China's first experiment of a personal insolvency regime: Towards a more debtor‐oriented procedural design

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Although a local experiment, the promulgation of the Regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone on Personal Bankruptcy (SPBR) in 2020 was hailed as a significant milestone in China's insolvency lawmaking which has thus far addressed only corporate insolvencies.
Jenny Fu, Jin Chun
wiley   +1 more source

Green-Technology Automobiles: Can modern innovations save the environment and consumers\u27 pockets

open access: yes, 2014
Cars of the past are notorious for poor fuel efficiency and high carbon emissions. With the presence of hybrid technology, along with a variety of other green innovations, many of these negative side effects can be mitigated. The purpose of this study is
Mahon, Steven M.   +2 more
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