MANAGING FASHION & LUXURY COMPANIES Week 1 W1 - Content Fashion & Luxury 1. What is Fashion? 2. New Trends 3. Dream Factor and Media System 4. What is Luxury? 5. Luxury as a Product 6. Luxury as Know How‚ Industry and Business 7. Luxury as a Culture 8. Luxury as a Customer 9. What Luxury is not 10. Fashion and Luxury for Millennials 2 W1 - Content Fashion 1. What is Fashion? 2. New Trends
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Resurrecting Media Imperialism1 Colin Sparks 2 Hong Kong Baptist University sparksc@hkbu.edu.hk Abstract This paper makes the case for the re-instatement of a theory of cultural and media imperialism in discussions of international communication. The paper briefly restates the “classical” theory of cultural imperialism as outlined by Schiller and other authors. It reviews and accepts some of the main criticisms that led to the rejection of that approach during the 1980s. Contemporary theories of
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Abstract: Given that the Internet is an engineered system like any other‚ why should we distinguish "Internet research" from any other study of technology? One answer is that computers are distinctive in their direct and systematic relationship to language. Another is that the Internet‚ through its layered architecture‚ is highly appropriable. Even so‚ the Internet does not cause a revolution or define a wholly separate "cyber" sphere. Instead‚ due to its distinctive qualities‚ it participates in
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progressive movement was effort by reformers to use gov’t as an agency of humanitarian welfare The political roots of progressive movement lay in – Greenback Labor Party & Populists Late 19th century social critics & their criticisms: Thorstein Veblen – “conspicuous consumption” & “predatory wealth” new rich class 1899 The Theory of the Leisure Class p.665 (12th ed.) Jack London – destruction of nature – 1903 The Call of the Wild‚ etc… p.677 (12th ed.) Jacob Riis – slum conditions in cities
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Transnational corporations‚ CSR and the course of Maersk Roskilde University Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics Autumn 2011 Anders Buch Nielsen 1 Table of content ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION PROBLEM AREA PROBLEM FORMULATION METHODOLOGY DELIMITATIONS THEORETICAL PART A. P. MOELLER MAERSK GROUP CASES AGAINST MAERSK CONCLUSION REFERENCES 3 4 5 5 5 6 7 10 11 15 17 2 Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become the new buzzword and a key differentiator which companies
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Comparative Social Research Plan: Structure Title Towards best practice in school-based drug abuse prevention: a comparative case study of two high schools in Amsterdam and in Zagreb 1. Introduction based on literature review Since the beginning of civilisation‚ people wanted to alter their conscious trying to reach something greater than everyday’s life. In other words‚ drugs and drug related problems are not new but since the last century have become a global phenomenon which
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Facebook Inc. has been elected as the best company to work for in 2013. With the score of 4.7 out of the possible 5 (Forbes‚ 2012) it is underpinning its strong culture by encouragement of individuals to ‘make an impact’ (Appendix 1.) with the focus on environment as a part of the culture and flat hierarchy‚ which encourages both communication and interaction within the organization. However‚ in September Business Insider (2013) published the article with a controversial title ‘Facebook employees
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The demand curve that an individual firm faces is called the residual demand curve: the market demand that is not met by other sellers at any given price. The firm ’s residual demand function‚ Dr(p)‚ shows the quantity demanded from the firm at price p. A firm sells only to people who have not already purchased the good from another seller. We can determine how much demand is left for a particular firm at each possible price using the market demand curve and the supply curve for all other firms in
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The Frontier Thesis Introduction The emergence of western history as an important field of scholarship started with Frederick Jackson Turner’s (1861-1932) famous essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American history.”[1] This thesis shaped both popular and scholarly views of the West for the next two generations. In his thesis‚ Turner argued that the West had to be taken seriously. He felt that up to his time there had not been enough research of what he in his essay call “the fundamental
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Veblen’s book "The Theory of the Leisure Class". Written in 1899‚ “Theory” is a socio-economic work that discusses a so-called “Leisure class”‚ and its relation to the working class and social stratification. According to this sociological theory‚ Veblen believes there is a separate working and leisure
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