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- Autio, Minna, et al.
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Understanding co-consumption between consumers and their pets
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Consumer Studies. - : Wiley. - 1470-6423 .- 1470-6431. ; 40:1, s. 125-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pets live with people; they participate in people’s everyday life activities and are often seen as human-like family members. Consumers in the industrialized countries are investing more money in their pets and spending more time with them than ever before. The pet and the owner can even be considered to form a unit that consumes together. In this article, we develop a conceptual understanding of co-consumption by examining how pets act as co-consumers in everyday consumption. The pet owner and pet have joint consumption experiences in which they interact with other actors such as service providers. The consumer (pet owner) consumes because of the pet, meaning that he or she constantly needs to take the pet into account in choices and activities beyond petrelated consumption, such as what kind of car to buy, where to work, whom to marry and how to live. The co-consumer (pet) also acts as an active agent who experiences, feels, suffers and likes the goods and services that the consumer buys for the pet. Reciprocally, the pet provides the consumer (pet owner) with companionship, support and a boost to wellbeing. As such, our research suggests that co-consumption provides an understanding not only of consumption with pets but also of other contexts, especially those in which the aim is shared well-being such as consumption together with children, the disabled or the elderly.
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- Kuismin, Ari, et al.
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From Dust to Buzz: Reconfiguring space for organization-creation
- 2024
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Ingår i: ORGANIZATION STUDIES. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we examine the relationship between space and entrepreneurship, understood as organization-creation, by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's spatial theorizing. Building on an ethnographic study of the Nordic Start-Up Incubator, we focus on the ongoing material, discursive and affective reconfiguration of space to promote entrepreneurial 'buzz'. We show how emancipatory promises (smoothings) are entangled with a logic of enterprise (striations), and how this ambiguity is enacted (folds) as organization-creation emerges spatially. This allows us to problematize the distinction often made between entrepreneurial spaces of emancipation and managerial spaces of control and to consider how they may co-constitute each other through subtle twists and turns. We conclude by discussing this multiplicity and ambiguity with regard to the politics of entrepreneurial spaces.
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- Malmelin, Nando, et al.
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TRANSFORMING MEDIA : reviewing the issues and contexts of change in media management research
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Media Business Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1652-2354 .- 2376-2977. ; 19:3, s. 203-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines how change as a media management phenomenon is approached and understood in the research fields of media management, media business and media economics. By means of a systematic literature review and problematising methodology, the article unpacks the ways in which change as a phenomenon is comprehended in the extant research and elaborates on the implications of various schools of thought on the development of the research area. The findings of the study illustrate how different paradigmatic, contextual and pragmatic ways of understanding change are reflecting the current thinking and discussion about transformation in the media industry. As a contribution, the article adds to media management research by reviewing, identifying and critically reflecting on the dominant views of change in the area.
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