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Luxury purchase intentions: the role of individualism-collectivism, personal values and value-expressive influence in South Africa

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2021
This study examines the underlying mechanisms for predicting luxury purchase intentions in the context of an emerging market. The authors propose a conceptual model that tests the predictive role of culture and the mediating effect of individual values ...
Ayanda Zici   +3 more
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Beauty Both Ubiquitous and Exclusive: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and the Great Exhibition

open access: yes19, 2023
This brief article focuses upon Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley’s response to the Great Exhibition of 1851, both her celebration of luxury goods in her poetry and her poetry as such a consumer good.
Daniel Brown
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On luxury and Equilibrium [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economic Analysis, 2015
Building on a class of transcendental preferences for luxury, explicit solutions for price taking behavior and exchange equilibrium are discussed, which share the analytical tractability of Cobb-Douglas models. Such economies display fundamental positive properties, among which uniqueness and price tâtonnement stability of equilibrium.
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INSIGHTS INTO WOMEN’S LUXURY CONSUMPTION – A TEENAGERS VERSUS YOUNG ADULTS COMPARISON [PDF]

open access: yesManagement & Marketing, 2021
The paper aims at investigating differences in luxury consumption among female teenagers and young adults that qualify as luxury consumers. A quantitative research based on questionnaire was conducted to examine the importance given to luxury, the ...
Raluca CIORNEA
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The Spirit of Luxury [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Politics, 2016
The aim of this article is to introduce and examine the concept of the “spirit of luxury.” Accordingly, we commence by delineating the philosophical idea of luxury, emphasizing its discursive meaning, and contemplating its earliest historical and etymological origins.
Armitage, John, Roberts, Joanne
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Le luxe dans le champ du tourisme

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2015
There are a number of tourism destinations which wish to be part of the luxury destination market; with their new and modern infrastructures, they believe they are considered as luxury. But, luxury is not decreed.
Sopheap Theng
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Tourisme de luxe et gastronomie de luxe : une nouvelle Sainte Alliance sur fond de patrimoines ?

open access: yesTerritoire en Mouvement, 2014
This article aims to show the relationship between luxury tourism and gastronomy, the study of which has been gradually abandoned in favour of popular gastronomy and mass tourism.
Christian Barrère   +2 more
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Étudier le luxe

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2015
This discussion proposes to study luxury through a multidisciplinary approach, from philosophy to sociology and from psychology to economy. First of all, it is to identify the foundations of luxury with the work of Veblen (conspicuous consumption ...
Olivier Dehoorne, Sopheap Theng
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Are spas and wellness still considered luxurious in today’s world?

open access: yesResearch in Hospitality Management, 2021
The world of spas has been around for thousands of years. Built as a supplementary service or facility for luxury hotels, it has quickly become a must have for most if not all luxury hotels around the world. Difficulties may be arising, however. Are spas
Sophie Thorne
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Studying luxury

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2015
This paper proposes to study luxury through a multidisciplinary approach, from philosophy to sociology and from psychology to economy. First of all, it is essential to identify the foundations of luxury, with the work of Veblen (conspicuous consumption),
Olivier Dehoorne, Sopheap Theng
doaj   +1 more source

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