scholarly journals “Names doing rounds”: On brands in the bazaar economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052198939
Author(s):  
Maitrayee Deka ◽  
Adam Arvidsson
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Consumer Economy ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Unique Relationship ◽  
Close Contacts

This article draws on fieldwork form Delhi’s garment and electronics bazaars to articulate an alternative perspective on the role of brands in the global bazaar economy. Knockoffs and counterfeit brands have mostly been viewed as problematic manifestations of counterfeiting and piracy, or framed in terms of authenticity or marginal practices of imitation. In this article, we suggest that bazaar brands also function as central to a growing popular innovation system able to provide material goods as well as immaterial experiences to the world’s poorer consumers in ways that stay in close contacts with the mediated fluctuations of popular affects. Bazaar brands develop a unique relationship with consumers based on an ability to seize the moment rather than the creation of enduring loyalties. We suggest that bazaar brands can be understood as central to an emerging postcapitalist consumer economy that has been substantially empowered by the spread of digital technologies.

Homo Africanus: Antiquus or Oeconomicus? Some Interpretations of African Economic History

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-178
Author(s):  
B. Marie Perinbam
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Social Embeddedness ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Economic Data ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Unique Relationship

From an inquiry into three distinct interpretations of African economic data, we have suggested thathomo africanus is oeconomicusrather thanantiquus. First, while substantivists (traditionalists) and modernists (developmental economists) appropriately subordinatedhomo africanus'economic behavior to social considerations, they mistakenly de-emphasized the role of markets, especially in economies where market contacts were peripheral. Consequently (since their model for comparative economic behavior was that of the traditional selfregulating market economy), they concluded thathomo africanus antiquus est. Second, believing that when stripped of their cultural impedimenta, all economies conformed to the same laws, formalists 45 Both Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray have criticized him for argued thathomo africanus oeconomicus est. Accordingly, they recommended modifications and applications of concepts such as rationalization, maximization, the scarcity postulate, surpluses, input, output levels, pricing and profits, and quantification in general.Third, we examined the models of the French structuralist neo-Marxists who, bypositing homo africanuswithin select categories of materialist history, have maintained that structurally, materially and existentially, he wasoeconomicus. Beginning with an inquiry into modes of production, they averred that he produced, consumed and circulated material goods by virtue of his existence within a social structure and superstructure which was materially determined. Accordingly, they revealed his unique relationship to the market. Moreover, structuralist neo-Marxists have transformed the substantivist theory of social "embeddedness" (or the subordination of an economy to social constraints which act as cultural obstacles to change) into a social "realization" or reflection of change within production modes, whose inner structure is transformed according to the dialectic. Their model, therefore, not only has more depth and dynamism than that of the substantivists, but its structural linkages are causally related.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE CREATION OF HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Iva Bubanja
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Target Consumer

This paper analyzed the changes in the process of creating high -quality products that occurred after the introduction of information -communication technolo gies and the Internet in the enterprises. Internet offeres advantages connected with the possibility of further company development and with the possibility for the high quality products to find their way to target consumer groups quickly and easily. Speci al emphasis will be given to the role of online advertising and social media in the promotion of such products. With the use of digital technologies enterprises have the ability to do business more competitive and to contribute to the growth of the nationa l economy.

Human and robot: technologization vs. humanization of noonomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
A. A. Porokhovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Private Interest ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Hired Labor

The role of a man at various stages of the formation and development of capitalism is considered. It is shown how hired labor gradually turned from a factor of production into human capital and became a decisive element in the creation of new digital technologies. At the same time, there has been a significant change in the role and place of man in the economy and society. Noonomics can no longer rely solely on the private interest of capital, because technological fetishism has begun to threaten the very existence of a man. Artificial intelligence as a robot and in other forms claims to replace a man in many areas. Only a man himself is capable of transforming technologization into a modern support of humanization under the conditions of noonomics.

STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY OF AZERBAIJAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2222-2232
Author(s):  
K.S.O. Vekilov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Creation

Basing on the strategic approaches, the article investigates the role of innovative entrepreneurship in forming the knowledge economy. The importance of intensifying the development of the knowledge economy in the context of global changes and modern challenges has been substantiated. The need for the formation and development of the country’s knowledge economy, taking into account the deepening development of innovative entrepreneurship, is considered. The expediency of accelerating the commercialization of the results and discoveries of scientific research works is noted. Strategic directions of mutual activities of universities, research institutions, investment funds, industrial enterprises and other subjects of innovative entrepreneurship are given. The necessity of ensuring the effective and efficient application of the results, developments and innovations is substantiated. The progressive world experience in ensuring the development of the national innovation system and the formation of an innovationoriented economy of the country is considered. An objective approach is considered the creation and commissioning of modern technological parks, industrial parks and high-tech parks for an intensive transition to innovative development of the economy and deepening the basic principles of the knowledge economy. The essence and effectiveness of innovative entrepreneurship is revealed, which covers intellectual resources, more productive inventions and discoveries. The importance of developing the market for research services and thereby ensuring the dynamism of the market for science, technology and innovation was noted. The processes and approaches to the development of important elements of the knowledge economy and to strengthening the role of innovative entrepreneurship in this direction are analyzed. The multiplicative effect of targeted measures and the use of state support mechanisms for deepening the development of innovative entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan were assessed. The need to improve and develop organizational and economic factors, the institutional framework for accelerating the creation of an innovation system and multifunctional innovation zones in the country is considered. The role of digitalization and the use of elements of information and communication technologies for strengthening the processes of creating a knowledge economy is shown. Recommendations and proposals were prepared on the strategic role of innovative entrepreneurship in the formation of the knowledge economy in Azerbaijan.

scholarly journals Limits and variability of the use of digital forms (tools) in the legal profession and advocacy: approaches and methods

2021 ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
O. V. Pospelov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Human Control ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Safe Approach

The article deals with the problem of ensuring human control over the digital environment, which penetrates into all spheres of society, and the role of the legal profession in solving this problem. The doctrinal elaboration of the topic of the article is presented by an analysis of the ethical traditions and ideas about proper law practice that have historically developed in the domestic legal profession, which form the basis of the generally accepted theory (methodology) of the legal profession, and are manifested in the use of the method of lawyer control over the state’s compliance with legal norms in the context of the massive introduction of information (digital) technologies that signifi cantly change the forms of implementation of law in Russia. The normative elaboration of the topic of the article is revealed through the analysis of the Concept for the development of regulation of relations in the fi eld of artifi cial intelligence and robotics technologies until 2024, approved in 2020 by the Government of the Russian Federation, which refl ects the basic provisions of the normative regulation of the digital transformation of public relations in our country. The most important aspects of the article are related to the comparison of the government’s risk-based approach and the lawyer’s safe approach to the introduction of information (digital) technologies, taking into account the general situation with IT solutions in Russia and the creation of the Integrated Information System of the Russian Advocacy (IIS RA), consisting of subsystems — digital forms (tools), the development of which is described in the article with an explanation of the transition from plurality (variability) to unifi cation in their use. The article explains the prerequisites for the manifestation of a set of approaches to the creation and use of digital forms (tools) in the framework of the CIS RB: universalization; unifi cation; authenticity; transparency; fi duciary, as well as appropriate methods of working with these tools.

scholarly journals Creation of the information system “Memorial plaques of Kaliningrad”: content analysis of the commemorative text

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kolesnik ◽  
◽  
E. Baranova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verbal Component ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment

The article is devoted to the study of the role of memorial plaques as commemorative signs in the creation of a single “city text” of Kaliningrad. Based on the American resource Open Plaques, the most complete database of memorial plaques in Kaliningrad has been created at the moment. In the course of the analysis of the obtained material, it was found that the boards created in Kaliningrad over the past decades differ from those established in the Soviet period in thematic and artistic performance, the size of the non-verbal component of the text. This is how the plaques associated with preserving the memory of the heroes of local wars and armed conflicts are installed. Often, on updated plaques, the non-verbal component becomes larger, and the verbal text is supplemented with more specific information

scholarly journals From “Sarskaya Road” to “Victory Avenue”. The Architectural Ensemble of Moskovsky Avenue in Saint Petersburg

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-682
Author(s):  
Vladimir G. Lisovskii ◽  
◽  
Varvara S. Speranskaya ◽  
Vasilii S. Potapov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Order System ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Creative Contribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

The article contains a brief overview of the history of the formation of the architectural ensemble of Moskovsky Avenue in Saint Petersburg — one of the major highways in the southern districts of the city. The role of regular urban planning techniques is noted in the process of organizing the main part of the modern highway, starting from Sennaya Square. The highway from the moment of its inception has served as part of a lengthy route important for the whole country, connecting Saint Petersburg with Moscow and Kiev. The process of gradual changes in the architectural characteristics of the avenue in the 19th century is traced, when the composition of the following sections of the highway was formed — from the Fontanka to the square at the Moscow Triumphal Gate. The historical and symbolical emphasis of the Gate is emphasized. The focus of the article is on the part of avenue that was created in the middle of the twentieth century in the neoclassical style of that time. The results of a large competition for the development of planning projects of the highway, conducted when the avenue was named after Joseph Stalin, are briefly reviewed. The authors analyze the spatial structure of the highway, the developed nature of which makes it possible to compare Moskovsky Avenue to Nevsky Avenue. It is shown that the very use of the patterns specific to the order system allowed for the creation of an ensemble, whose solemn character is consonant with the theme of victory in the war of 1941–1945. The authors evaluate the creative contribution of a number of Soviet architects and sculptors in the creation of the ensemble. The article also explores examples of the contemporary urban development of the neighboring city blocks and evaluates the level of their compatibility with the task of preserving the ensemble as an art monument of its time.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

They think they find themselves: radical violence and narcissistic-identity suffering

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Brunet
Keyword(s):  
Lone Wolf ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideal Ego ◽  
Group Regression ◽  
The Ideal

This article proposes a model of individual violent radicalisation leading to acts of terrorism. After reviewing the role of group regression and the creation of group psychic apparatus, the article will examine how violent radicalisation, by the reversal of the importance of the superego and the ideal ego, serves to compensate the narcissistic identity suffering by “lone wolf” terrorists.

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