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2022 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Xin Li

ABSTRACT This paper comments on Yulun Ma and Yue Hu's (2021) recent article ‘Business Model Innovation and Experimentation in Transforming Economies: ByteDance and TikTok’. It argues that TikTok's international success is not due to so-called business model innovation; instead, it is because ByteDance has overcome three major hurdles facing emerging market firms pursuing internationalization. It also posits that the case of TikTok offers inspiration for theorizing paradox, namely, individuals and organizations can solve paradoxical tensions by increasing capacity through the use of advanced technologies.


SAGE Open ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110684
Author(s):  
Angels Niñerola ◽  
Ana-Beatriz Hernández-Lara ◽  
María-Victoria Sánchez-Rebull

This study investigates the relationship between diversity in the Top Management Team (TMT) of Spanish firms and the firms’ willingness to further expand in China, as a proxy for their international success. Data from Spanish companies with direct investment in China were collected through a questionnaire. Regression analyses were carried out to test the differential influences of multiple forms of TMT demographic diversity (age, gender, tenure, and functional experience). The moderating effect of conflict in an uncertain environment is also examined, as this offers potentially novel insights into the determinants of success in emerging countries. Results show that the effects of TMT diversity on international success are very much influenced by the perception of the conflict related to investment in a non-traditional market. The findings highlight the relevant negative role that conflict can exert in diverse TMTs in a growing developing economy.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Scrolavezza

As Nancy K. Stalker (2018) points out, in recent years food in Japan has established itself as a fundamental feature of national and local identity and became one of Japan's most influential cultural brands. An intriguing example is the B-kyū gurume boom, the celebration of creative versions of typical comfort food, intertwined with the obsession for local traditions. Such processes are reflected in representations of food in media and arts: contemporary culture plays a fundamental role in shaping but also in connoting food culture with new meanings. The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction and narration of contemporary Japanese food culture in one of the most recent and successful franchises, Shin’ya Shokudō, the popular manga by Abe Yarō, which inspired the Netflix series that enjoyed unexpected international success in 2017.


Popular Music ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Olivia R. Lucas

Abstract New Zealand Māori metal band Alien Weaponry rose from local act to international prominence over the course of 2016–2018, lauded by critics and fans for their songs involving Māori history and culture, and with lyrics in the indigenous Māori language. This article examines Alien Weaponry's participation in Māori language revitalisation efforts and explores the use of indigenous frameworks for analysing these issues. Māori principles of kaitiakitanga (protection) and whai wāhi (participation) offer an understanding of the band's contributions to both Māori cultural preservation and global metal, and of how these contributions cooperate in the band's success. In addition to unpacking the issues of identity, indigenousness and language revitalisation inherent in understanding Alien Weaponry's output, this article also expands on previous work on nationhood and identity in both global metal music and Māori popular music.


2021 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Ethan Mordden

This chapter considers the British musical over the last thirty years. As pop operas continued to appear, Chess (1986), Tim Rice's collaboration with Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaes (from the Swedish pop group ABBA), was considered a classy example, centered on a rivalry of chess champions. ABBA's catalogue in the jukebox show Mamma Mia! (1999) creates a line-up of point numbers fitted into an innocuous story. In comparison, Chess tells of globally dangerous affairs of state and is very precisely musicalized with just one incongruous number, “One Night In Bangkok,” which would seem to have been created solely to guarantee a big hit song. Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, understanding that the proper launching site for an international success was London or New York, gave the West End Miss Saigon (1989) and Martin Guerre (1996). With such serious musicals as Girl From the North Country (2017) and the pop-opera cycle commanding the scene, musical comedy as such started to become scarce, though Spamalot (Broadway 2005; West End 2006) showed the comedy musical is still capable of claiming smash hit status.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Mazierska

This article examines the phenomenon of ABBA, the most popular band ever to originate in Sweden, as accounted for in four documentaries, used to compare domestic and foreign responses to ABBA. Discussion draws on the concept of authenticity as formulated by Allan Moore, arguing that authenticity is not located in the music itself, but in the relationship between the artists and their audience. Analysis also considers the authenticity of the documentary form.


Author(s):  
Keith Howard

K-pop, Korean popular music, is a central component in Korea’s cultural exports. It helps brand Korea, and through sponsorships and tie-ups, generates attention for Korea that goes well beyond the music and media industries. This essay traces the history of Korean popular music, from its emergence in the early decades of the twentieth century, through the influence of America on South Korea’s cultural development and the assimilation of genres such as rap, reggae, punk, and hip hop, to the international success of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ and the idol group BTS. It explores the rise of entertainment companies, how they overcame the digital challenge, and how their use of restrictive contracts created today’s cultural economy. It introduces issues of gender and sexuality, and outlines how music videos and social media have been used to leverage fandom.


Tekstualia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (64) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Maja Dziedzic

The article reconstructs the itineraries of Tadeusz Różewicz’s journeys to the USSR and Russia. A relatively liberal political situation after the period of stalinism allowed the author of Anxiety to travel abroad after the international success of his works from the 60s. Despite his declared reluctance to travel, Różewicz travelled both east and west. On the basis of the poet’s notes, interviews and, above all, correspondence, it is possible to reconstruct the itineraries his travels to the Soviet Union, and after its fall to the Russian Federation, as well as identify literary inspirations related to specifi c trips. Różewicz’s Russian journeys attest to his fascination with classic works of Russian literature, which became the subject of his discussions with renowned Russian writers and artists as well as with his Polish friends, Ryszard Przybylski and Jerzy Nowosielski, both of whom he corresponded extensively with. The analysis of Różewicz’s letters shows that the subject of travel can establish a new direction in the critical study of his writing.


Neuróptica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Julio Santamaría Alonso

Resumen: La serie Blacksad, del guionista Juan Díaz Canales y el dibujante Juanjo Guarnido, ha cosechado un gran éxito internacional desde su aparición a finales del año 2000. La apuesta de los autores, ganadora a la postre, fue crear una historieta protagonizada por animales en un universo realista noir de los EE. UU. de los años 50 del pasado siglo. Si bien Blacksad nació de la admiración por las grandes novelas y películas de serie negra, la vinculación de los álbumes del gato detective con el cine va más allá, sin embargo, de esta relación directa. En sus páginas es posible encontrar alusiones y homenajes a películas de diferentes géneros que han ayudado a conformar el decorado, los personajes e incluso las tramas de las aventuras del protagonista a lo largo de los cinco volúmenes publicados hasta el momento. Abstract: The Blacksad series, by scriptwriter Juan Díaz Canales and illustrator Juanjo Guarnido, has enjoyed great international success since its creation in late 2000. The authors took a chance – and eventually succeeded – on creating a comic novel starring animals set against a realist, noir, 1950s America background. Blacksad was born out of the authors’ admiration for great noir novels and films, but the link between the cat detective albums and the cinema goes well beyond this point. Throughout the albums’pages we find hints and tributes to many genre films in aspects such as the general background, the personae, and even the plots of the main character’s adventures, which span five volumes so far.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Elizaveta Korskaia

Disability in narrative often displays negative patterns such as overcoming a disability, exceptional achievements, the association of poverty and crime, and "fixing" someone. Mariam Petrosian breaks these patterns in the depiction of disability in the Russian-speaking world by imagining an orphanage for children with disabilities from their perspective, according to which disability is not an obstacle to be overcome but rather a fact of life. In The Gray House, Petrosian allows her characters to make choices rather than conform to them. By creating rules and reversing norms, they create a distinct world where their agency is incontestable. In my work, I examine the history of disability in Russia and how it reflects the situation in The Gray House. Additionally, I analyze existing scholarship on the depiction of disability in literature connecting theory to the specifics of the novel. In applying Yuri Lotman, I study ways in which characters resemble 18th century Russian citizens, as he presents them: their roles, rules, characteristics and behavior. Applying narrative theory, I integrate Petrosian's use of space and the ability of characters with disabilities to make choices to build the plot of their lives. Furthermore, I discuss shifts in narrative perspective and how these shifts shape the outcome of the characters' plots. Finally, I address the international success of the novel and the importance of its fan base.


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