Dissertations / Theses: 'Cultural Economics'

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Lazzaro, Elisabetta. "Essays in cultural economics." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211077.

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Yau, O. H.-M. "Consumer satisfaction and cultural values." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371491.

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Kanthonga, Saston Arthur. "Can culture influence economic growth? : an examination of the impact of cultural factors on economic growth in developing economies." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2018. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/25461/.

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The thesis has investigated if cultural factors influence economic growth differences among countries. It was motivated by the intriguing question as to whether the gap between developed and developing countries is widening. Technically speaking, some countries which were regarded as underdeveloped three or four decades ago are now regarded as developed as articulated in the introduction to chapter 1. On the other hand, Sub-Saharan African region has failed to register convincing economic development (Seguino and Were, 2014, p. 1). The mixed methods design used in this thesis engaged distinct frameworks of both quantitative and qualitative paradigms to answer the research questions within this thesis. Implementing mixed research design in this thesis enables the investigation of how each variable in the study, environments, and institutions interact with each other in different contexts to produce measured effects. For instance, the study examined two sub-samples of developed and developing countries, 6 countries in each sub-sample. Further, the study also examined 18 representative Sub-Saharan countries to answer the research question. Lastly, a multi-case study of Malawi and Botswana was undertaken. The first two contexts of study used secondary data analysis. The multi-case study was used to drill down deeper than secondary data analysis allowed. This thesis focussed on the interaction between culture and economic growth. The literature review indicated that the impact of culture on growth is not particularly well articulated at present, and therefore this thesis seeks to make a contribution to this aspect of theory and practice. In addition, to the extent that culture has a significant impact on growth potential and its realisation, culture is not homogenous in Sub-Saharan Africa. This will have potentially significant impact upon different countries, and should be taken into consideration by governments and development agencies seeking to promote economic growth and sustainable development across the African continent.

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FORQUESATO, PEDRO HENRIQUE THIBES. "ESSAYS IN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL ECONOMICS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28353@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA
PROGRAMA DE DOUTORADO SANDUÍCHE NO EXTERIOR
Esta tese é formada por três artigos, o primeiro em economia organizacional e cultura; os dois últimos em economia política. No primeiro capítulo, nós modelamos a relação entre a disseminação de normas sociais de ética do trabalho e incentivos propostos pelas firmas, que motivamos utilizando evidência de três bases de dados diferentes. No segundo capítulo, examinamos se a renda dos vizinhos afeta o voto de eleitores, utilizando dados de resultados de eleições presidenciais (2004 até 2012) nos Estados Unidos, por zona eleitoral e grupo de bairros. Com isso, buscamos contribuir para o entendimento das razões que levam a diferentes níveis de demanda por redistribuição de renda. Como estratégia de identificação, utilizamos efeitos fixos de ano e dummies de trato e ano; trato sendo a menor unidade geográfica maior que o grupo de blocos (em média, um trato contém 4 grupos de blocos). No terceiro capítulo, estudamos patronagem, investigando o efeito da vitória de um candidato a prefeito de um partido na probabilidade de membros deste partido (ou de partidos da mesma coalizão) ocuparem cargos públicos no governo; ou de sua renda advinda do governo aumentar, caso já sejam empregados públicos. Analisamos também o efeito da vitória de um partido sobre o número de registrados a este partido nos anos futuros, o que indicaria um desejo de sinalizar apoio ao candidato eleito. Estimamos o efeito causal de um partido ocupar a prefeitura, comparando municipalidades em que este partido quase ganhou com cidades em que quase perdeu.
This thesis is composed of three papers, the first in organizational economics and culture; the last two in political economics. In the first chapter, we model the relation between dissemination of social norms of work ethic and incentives proposed by firms, which we motivate using evidence from three different datasets. In the second chapter, we examine whether neighbors income affects voting, using data from election results for the 2004-2012 Presidential Elections in Unites States, by precinct and block group. That way, we try to contribute to understanding the reason why there are different demands for income redistribution. As an identification strategy, we use year fixed-effects and tract year dummies; tract is the smallest geographic unit larger than block group (on average, each tract contains 4 block groups). In the third chapter, we study patronage, investigating the effect of a mayoral candidate s victory on the probability that members of his party (or parties in the same presidential coalition) occupy public jobs in the government, or on their income accrued from government, in case they are already public employees. We also analyze the effect of a party s victory over the number of registered members of that party in future years, which would indicate that voters affiliate to political parties as a way to signal support to the office holder. We estimate plausibly causal effects of a party holding mayoral position by comparing municipalities where that party nearly won with places where it nearly lost.

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Jo, Ara. "Essays in environmental and cultural economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2018. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3754/.

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This thesis approaches the global cooperation problem of climate change mitigation from a cultural standpoint. The research is inspired by the observation that voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions exist and more interestingly that there is heterogeneity in the level of voluntary action across countries. To what extent could this be explained by cultural differences? In Chapter 1, I argue the within-country culture of cooperation sustained by trust – the expectation that a random member of society is trustworthy – positively affects cooperative behavior in the international arena via reputation effects. I theoretically motivate this hypothesis and provide empirical evidence that countries associated with high trust have reduced greenhouse gas emissions more substantially than countries that display low levels of social trust. I further explore this line of argument in Chapter 2 by looking at how trust affects compliance. This chapter provides empirical evidence that trust facilitates firms’ compliance decisions in an international climate change regulation (EU ETS), which makes enforcement less costly in high-trust countries. In Chapter 3, I turn my attention to potential determinants of trust. The paper focuses on the effect of migration on trust among neighbors in the context of Mexico. The findings suggest that migration negatively affects the formation of trust between individuals due to the expected short-term nature of the relationship.

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CASI, LAURA. "ESSAYS ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND ECONOMICS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/215879.

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The idea that culture is a determinant of economic outcomes has regained in recent economic literature its full recognition. In this perspective, this analysis aims at discussing the impact of cultural diversity on economic outcomes and disentangling the mechanisms through which economic forces of globalization (trade, migration and capital flows) interplay with local cultural identities. Note that the analysis has a specific geographical focus, i.e.: European countries. The choice of Europe as target of the analysis depends on two main considerations: cultural issues are particularly important for the socio-economic success of European Union and cultural diversity is a funding element of Europe. Culture and cultural diversity are thus two important elements of European societies, but why should they matter in an economic perspective? The analysis that follows gives three main answers to this question. First of all, some of our economic choices and actions as consumers can have important fallouts on cultural diversity and on the possibility of cohabitation of different cultures. Secondly, some economic phenomena can have a cultural content, such as trade in cultural goods. For this reason they can become a vehicle for intercultural exchange, fostering tolerance towards immigrants and easing the success of multicultural societies. Finally, different local cultural identities can act as a filter for economic phenomena such as foreign investments, magnifying or destroying the growth enhancing effect of economic globalization. These three explanations are discussed and analyzed in the three chapters of the thesis.

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Söderström, Jannice. "Cultural Distance : An Assessment of Cultural Effects on Trade Flows." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1339.

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This thesis will investigate trade patterns among 77 selected countries and how these pat-terns may be affected by cultural attributes such as similarities in culture, institutions, common border, language, and such cultural characteristics. A cultural- and institutional distance measure will be calculated using the Pythagorean Theorem to assess the various cultural and institutional differences among countries. In more economic terms, a Euclid-ian space between the countries’ scores on each cultural and institutional index is calculated into one measure.

By the use of the gravity model an econometric analysis will be performed with 12 included variables in order to come to a conclusion if, and to what extent, various cultural distance measures affect trade flows. Due to scarce data availability in some of the variables the analysis is bound to the selected 77 partner countries and one time period ranging from 2003-2005. The dependent variable, and the trade flow considered in this thesis, is exports among the included countries.

The results from the performed regressions show excellent results where all variables are significant and are shown to have an effect on trade flows. Moreover, the result indicates that being similar when it comes to cultural attributes is indeed preferential for the trade partners. That is, trade increase when countries cultural affinities are large.

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Kovalchuk, Tetyuana. "The economic dimensions of culture and the cultural context of economics in the process of european integration." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12840.

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In an increasingly globalised world, economic and cultural imperatives can be seen as two of the most powerful forces shaping human behaviour. Cultural economics can be defined as the study of the evolutionary influence of cultural differences on economic thought and behaviour. The impact of the Institutionalist tradition has contributed to a contemporary split between what can be called cultural economics and the economics of culture. Both are necessary for a complete economic appreciation of reality. Cultural economics is the study of the evolutionary influence of cultural differences on economic thought and behaviour. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12840

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Morais, Eduardo Miguel Teixeira. "Dimensão Cultural e Investimento Directo Estrangeiro: o caso Grupo Jerónimo Martins." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/46164.

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Morais, Eduardo Miguel Teixeira. "Dimensão Cultural e Investimento Directo Estrangeiro: o caso Grupo Jerónimo Martins." Dissertação, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/46164.

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Simpson, Beth Michaela. "Environment, economics, and consumption, conflicting cultural models." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ61175.pdf.

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Bekkali, Mukhtar Askaruli. "The economics of protection of cultural goods." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2006.

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Loper, Jordan. "Three essays on gender and cultural economics." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020AIXM0220.

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Cette thèse explore les effets de long-terme des normes ancestrales sur l’émancipation et le bien-être des femmes dans les pays en développement. Le 1er chapitre explore l'effet de long terme de la matrilinéalité sur le VIH des femmes en Afrique Subsaharienne. Je trouve que les femmes originaires de groupes ethniques matrilinéaires sont aujourd’hui plus susceptibles d’être séropositives. L'adoption de comportements sexuels et de contraception plus à risque est le principal mécanisme explicatif. Le 2e chapitre explore la manière dont les normes traditionnelles interagissent avec les politiques de développement visant à soutenir l’émancipation et le bien-être des femmes. Mes co-auteurs et moi-même examinons l’impact différencié de réformes légales sur le divorce et l’émancipation des femmes, en fonction de la norme traditionnelle de cohabitation post-mariage. Nous trouvons que les femmes matrilocales divorcent plus suite aux réformes et, lorsqu’elles restent mariées, bénéficient d’une amélioration de leur bien-être et de leur pouvoir de décision au sein du ménage. Le 3e chapitre examine le lien entre la distribution du pouvoir de décision entre les époux et la décision de migrer seul du mari. En nous appuyant sur le second chapitre, nous trouvons que suite à ces réformes la propension à migrer seul des époux matrilocaux a augmenté de 41-76% relativement aux époux patrilocaux. Ce résultat suggère que l’émancipation des femmes restaure de l’efficacité dans la décision de migration du mari, en réduisant l’asymétrie d’information anticipée et l’aléa moral associés à la migration
This thesis explores the long term effects of ancestral norms on contemporaneous outcomes, in the context of developing countries, with a specific focus on gender related outcomes. The 1st chapter explores the long-term effect of matrilineality on contemporaneous female HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. I find that females originating from ancestrally matrilineal ethnic groups are today more likely to be infected by HIV. Matrilineal females’ riskier sexual and contraceptive behaviours constitute the main explanatory mechanisms. The 2nd chapter explores how cultural norms and development policies interact in shaping women’s empowerment and well-being in developing countries. My co-authors and I examine this question in the context of legal reforms and their differentiated impact on divorce and empowerment across traditional modes of post-marital cohabitation. We find that matrilocal women divorce more than patrilocal women following the reform and, when in stable marriages, experience a significant improvement in well-being and empowerment. The 3rd chapter examines the link between thedistribution of power in marriage and the decision to split-migrate (one spouse migrates alone) in Indonesia. Building on the second chapter, we find that the propensity of matrilocal husbands to split-migrate, relative to patrilocal husbands, increases by 41-76%, following the reform. We suggest that empowered women may have ex-ante gained control over outcomes that are costlier to monitor for husbands when they migrate. Hence, empowerment restores some efficiency in migration decisions by reducing the anticipated information asymmetry and the moral hazard associated with migration

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Günther, Siloni, and Anna Edlund. "Culture and the Municipality - A Love Story? : Exploring what determines cultural spending decisions." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149696.

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This paper examines possible determinants of per capita local government spending on culture and the arts in Sweden within the median voter framework. Here, our analysis is based on a cross-sectional data set consisting of all 290 Swedish municipalities in the year of 2016. The results obtained through OLS regression show that the variables Left-wing Parties, Education, as well as Senior citizens affect cultural spending decisions made by the municipalities positively, while the variable Median Income has a negative impact. Here, the share of mandates held by left-wing parties is found to stand out, as political orientation towards the left relates to a higher level of cultural spending, whereas the remaining three display rather small effects. Thereby, we conclude that the main reasoning behind cultural spending depends on the ideology of the political leaders, the median voter’s preference, whereby the aspect of a municipality’s location may be explored further.

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Wink, Junior Marcos Vinicio. "Ensaios em economia da cultura e da educação." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/109272.

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Esta tese é composta por três ensaios relacionados à educação e cultura. O primeiro deles mensura o impacto do capital cultural do professor, medido através da frequência a atividades culturais, sobre o aprendizado em língua portuguesa e matemática dos alunos do 5º ano do ensino fundamental de escolas brasileiras. Para estabelecer uma relação causal, instrumentaliza-se o capital cultural dos professores pela oferta de atividades culturais do município. Os resultados encontrados indicam que o capital cultural dos professores tem efeito positivo apenas para o aprendizado das crianças em língua portuguesa. Quando adiciona-se controle de qualidade educacional da escola em uma amostra restrita às escolas públicas brasileiras, o coeficiente de interesse continua significativo, porém com menor magnitude. Os mecanismos encontrados para os resultados são que professores com maior capital cultural incentivam de alguma forma as crianças a consumirem bens e serviços culturais, além de utilizar mais, em sala de aula, livros de leitura em geral. O segundo ensaio visa avaliar a política de meia entrada para estudantes no consumo de bens e serviços culturais no Brasil. A metodologia empregada explora as diferentes datas de criação das leis da meia entrada entre os estados brasileiros utilizando os modelos de Diferenças-em-Diferenças (DD) e Diferenças Triplas (DDD). Os resultados encontrados no presente trabalho sugerem que a criação da lei da meia entrada teve efeitos positivos tanto em termos de aumento na probabilidade dos estudantes consumirem bens e serviços culturais como em elevar seus gastos com esse tipo de bem. Por fim, o terceiro ensaio avalia se qualificações dos docentes têm efeitos nos impactos das características da turma sobre o aprendizado escolar individual. Foram consideradas como características da turma medidas de composição relacionadas à raça, nível socioeconômico e educação familiar. A metodologia empregada no presente trabalho controla para características observadas dos alunos e dos professores, além de características não observadas de escolas, através do método de efeitos fixos. Os resultados, em geral, apontam que efeito da qualidade do professor na nota dos alunos em exames de proficiência, via características das turmas, sempre é maior em turmas cujo aluno, em função de sua cor, não é uma minoria e onde a proporção de alunos com pais analfabetos é menor. A única exceção é quando analisa-se, para as notas de alunos negros, a variável “Capital cultural do professor” e a característica da turma “Proporção de alunos negros”. Nesse caso, a presença do professor com maior capital cultural na turma resulta em um acréscimo maior das notas de alunos negros em turmas onde o negro é uma minoria do que em turmas onde ele é uma maioria.
This thesis consists of three essays related to education and culture. The first one measures the impact of cultural capital of teachers, measured by the frequency of cultural activities, on portuguese and mathematics learning in 5th grade students. We use the city provision of cultural activities as instruments for teachers’ cultural capital to establish a causal relationship . The results indicate teachers’ cultural capital has a positive effect only for children’s portuguese learning. When we add control of education quality of schools in a sample for Brazilian public schools, the coefficient of interest remains significant, but lower. We found two mechanisms for these findings. First, teachers with high cultural capital levels encourage children to demand cultural goods and services. Second, teachers with high cultural capital levels encourage children to read books inside the classroom. In the second essay, we estimate the effects of the law of half price tickets on the consumption of cultural goods and services of Brazilian students using samples collected for all metropolitan regions from the Household Budget Surveys (HBS), carried out in 1987/88, 1995 / 96, 2002/03 and 2008/09. We evaluate the effects of the law on the proportion of students that consume cultural goods and changes in their expenses with those goods. We explore the time differences of the creation of those laws among Brazilian states to estimate a causal relationship using the Difference-in-differences (DD) and Triple differences (DDD) methodology. We found that the creation of law of half price tickets had positive effects on increasing the students likelihood to consume cultural goods and services and on raising their spending with those goods. Finally, the third essay evaluates whether teachers’ qualifications have effects on the impact of classroom characteristics on individual scholar achievement. We considered as classroom characteristics measures related to race, socioeconomic status and family education. The methodology used in this study controls for observed characteristics of students and teachers, as well as unobserved characteristics of schools using the fixed effects model. The results indicate that the effect of teacher quality on students proficiency examinations, through characteristics of classroom, is always higher on classroom which students, depending on their color, are not a minority and where the proportion of students with illiterate parents is lower. The only exception is when we analyze, for achievements of black students, the variable "Cultural capital of the teacher" and the classroom characteristic "Proportion of black students." In this case, the presence of the teacher with higher cultural capital level in classrooms generates greater increase for black students in classes where the black is minority than in classes where they are majority.

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Köbrich, León Anja Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] [Wein. "Essays in Cultural Economics - Economic Consequences of Religion / Anja Köbrich León. Betreuer: Thomas Wein." Lüneburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2013. http://d-nb.info/104336949X/34.

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Davis, Blair. "The 1950s B-movie : the economics of cultural production." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102798.

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The United States Supreme Court placed the major Hollywood studios in violation of antitrust laws in 1948, leading to the end of the classical Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s. Subsequent changes in the corporate organization and mode of production of the major studios signaled the end of the traditional B-movie as a product of block-booking policies.
B-movies became a distinctly different entity in the 1950s, however. From the institutional effects of the antitrust ruling, to changing audience demographics, the emergent patterns in production, distribution and exhibition had a profound effect on the evolution of the B-movie from its origins in the early 1930s to its new role in the cinematic marketplace of the 1950s. Increasingly the result of newly formed independent companies, B-movies innovated such industrial components as new genre cycles and demographic patterns.
This dissertation takes a political economy approach to examining the B-movie in the 1950s as an economic product, with a specific emphasis on independent filmmaking. The implication for film studies lies in answering questions about the unique nature of the B-movie filmmaking process: how is the mode of production of a B-movie different from that of mainstream Hollywood filmmaking? How does the low-budget nature of independent cinema determine its mode of production? How is a B-movie limited and/or defined by the low budget nature of its mode of production, and how does this affect the film's aesthetics? How do B-movies function in, and what is their value to, the film marketplace? Changes in film production, distribution and exhibition will be examined, as will patterns in film spectatorship in relation to the changing institutional landscape of the film industry in the 1950s.
The B-movie was a volatile entity during the 1950s, with both major and minor studios questioning the economic viability of low-budget production. B-movies existed in opposition to the cinematic mainstream in the 1950s, a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers of subsequent decades. Analyzing the mode of production of these B-movies is essential in understanding their aesthetics, as well as their historical role in the film industry.

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Nathan, Max. "The economics of cultural diversity : lessons from British cities." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/187/.

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This thesis examines the economic effects of cultural diversity; it focuses on recent experience in British cities, and on links between migrant and minority communities, diversity and innovation. Like many western societies Britain is becoming more culturally diverse, a largely urban process driven by net immigration and growing minority communities. Despite significant public interest we know little about the economic impacts. This PhD aims to fill these major gaps. First, I explore connections between diversity, immigration and urban outcomes. I ask: does diversity help or hinder urban economic performance? Initial cross-sectional analysis finds positive associations between ‘super-diversity’ and urban wages. Using panel data and instruments to establish causality, I find that net immigration helps raise native productivity, especially for high-skilled workers, but may help exclude lower-skill natives from employment opportunities. De-industrialisation and casualization of entrylevel occupations partly explain the employment results. Next I investigate links between co-ethnic groups, cultural diversity and innovation. I explore effects of co-ethnic and diverse inventor groups on individual members’ patenting rates, using patents microdata and a novel name classification system. Controlling for individuals’ human capital, I find small positive effects of South Asian and Southern European co-ethnic membership. Overall group diversity also helps raise individual inventors’ productivity. I find mixed evidence of effects on majority patenting. I then explore the case of London in detail, using a unique survey of the capital’s firms. I ask: does organisational diversity or migrant/ethnic ownership influence firms’ product and process innovation? Results show small positive effects of diverse managements on ideas generation. Diverse firms are more likely than homogenous firms to sell into London’s large, cosmopolitan home markets as well as into international markets. Migrant entrepreneurship helps explain the main result. Together, these papers make important contributions to a small but growing literature on diversity, innovation and economic development

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Lochmann, Alexia. "Essays on the economics of migration and cultural identity." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01E018.

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Cette thèse vise à mettre en lumière l’interaction entre la mobilité humaine, l’identité culturelle et la mondialisation. Le rôle essentiel que la mobilité humaine et l’identité culturelle jouent dans l’histoire du développement économique est indéniable, car ces deux phénomènes accompagnent l’humanité dans l’espace et le temps. Les questions auxquelles je réponds dans cette thèse se concentrent sur trois aspects de ces phénomènes, qui sont au cœur du débat public actuel. J’aborde ces questions en utilisant des dossiers historiques que j’ai numérisé dans le cadre de ma thèse afin de construire une base de données originale. Je fournis des cadres conceptuels, historiques et théoriques pour chaque sujet, tout en m’appuyant sur des méthodes économétriques rigoureuses pour déduire la causalité. Après une introduction sur l’économie de la migration et de la diversité, le cœur de cette thèse comprend trois articles scientifiques. Le premier article évalue les effets de la formation linguistique sur l’intégration économique des immigrants, le deuxième met en évidence le rôle de l’identité culturelle et des facteurs économiques dans la décision d’émigrer, et le troisième étudie les effets que des informations fausses peuvent avoir sur la formation de l’identité culturelle
This dissertation aims at shedding light on the interplay between human mobility, cultural identity and globalization. The critical role that human mobility and cultural identity play in the history of economic development is undeniable, for both phenomena accompany humankind throughout space and time. The questions I answer in this dissertation intend to focus on three aspects of these phenomena, that are at the core of the current public debate. I address these questions using novel data, partly coming from recently digitized historical files in the context of this doctorate. I provide conceptual, historical and theoretical frames for each topic, while relying on rigorous state-of-the-art econometric methods to infer causality. Following an introduction on the economics of migration and diversity, the core of this dissertation comprises three research papers. The first paper evaluates the effects of language training on the economic integration of immigrants; the second highlights the role of cultural identity and economic factors when taking the decision to emigrate, and the third investigates the effects that misleading information can have on the formation of cultural identity

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Chan, Hau-nung. "Consumption, taste and cultural capital : the case of Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1369411X.

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Last, Anne-Kathrin Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] [Wein. "Cultural Economics: Empirical Applications in the German Cultural Sector / Anne-Kathrin Last. Betreuer: Thomas Wein." Lüneburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1034146939/34.

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Last, Anne-Kathrin [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Wein. "Cultural Economics: Empirical Applications in the German Cultural Sector / Anne-Kathrin Last. Betreuer: Thomas Wein." Lüneburg : Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1034146939/34.

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Al, Hamed Hamed. "Establishing a cultural quarter in Abu Dhabi, UAE." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/establishing-a-cultural-quarter-in-abu-dhabi-uae(24dcc43a-efcb-4c3e-b4c6-fc183182bb0a).html.

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The main argument driving the thesis; namely the fact that the literature is treating cultural quarter development as mainly originating from the supply side with limited attention to the demand side (e.g., consumers’/visitors’ preferences and tastes for prospective developments in the cultural scene). Thus, the analysis argues that more attention should be placed upon cultural quarter establishment, as opposed to cultural quarter production. For this purpose, the thesis engages into a quest to reveal individual preferences for future policy initiatives in the area. The thesis considers the case study, namely the proposed cultural quarter development in Saadiyat Island, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It provides a background on Abu Dhabi, the reason for focusing on cultural tourism, the Saadiyat island development and the planned activities and cultural infrastructure to appear on the island. The thesis also considers the rationale behind the project (i.e., diversification of the Emirate’s economy) as well as the potential criticism that may arise (has risen as a result of this policy initiative) in the literature. The main argument in favour of this policy initiative is the diversification of the mono-culture nature of the domestic economy, whereas the main argument against such an initiative is that it will appear as an ‘elitist’ development not catering for native culture and tradition, thus failing to relate to native customs and cultural heritage. We argue that this issue will also have negative repercussions for the sustainability of the cultural quarter if not addressed properly from policy makers. The first part of the discussion in Chapter 4 is devoted to the survey method, the selection of the product attributes to be used in the choice experiment and the rationale behind them. In other words, we try to provide some sort of justification for the component parts of the methodology, namely stated preferences discrete choice model . This is a standard procedure that has been followed in the literature over other similar applications of the methodology in relevant settings. The analysis in this first part of the discussion also makes an effort to justify the self-completion mode that was chosen for the survey instrument, over other common practice questionnaire filling techniques. Chapter 5 deals with the specific research methodology; namely stated preferences discrete choice modeling (SPDCM). In particular, this section of the discussion considers the various economic valuation techniques and contrasts SPDCM with contingent valuation methodology (CVM). Then, the analysis considers the economic and the econometric underpinnings of the SPDCM methodology (RUM, LCA and decision making theories) and concludes with the theoretical analysis of the welfare effects derived from the SPDCM approach. The descriptive analysis part of the thesis is split into two parts. The first part of the analysis considers: frequencies of the sample population and further segments the sample population into groups (cross – tabulations). Further we combine respondents’ attributes and characteristics (revealed preference data), with their preferences for the various attributes and their levels/configurations used in the choice experiment (stated preference data). In this way, the thesis tries to combine the various sources of data (revealed – stated) in order to explain individual preferences and potential variation among the sample population. The section empirical econometric results derived from the SPDCM experiment are presented. In particular, the analysis is split into three major sub-sections . In the first sub-section, the analysis considers the empirical results derived from the homogenous preference multinomial logit analysis (MNL). The empirical results are summarized through 3 main tables (beta coefficients, marginal effects, and marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) estimates. Sub – section 2 of the analysis considers the heterogeneous preference multinomial logit model or mixed logit (MMNL) model. According to the discussion in previous sections of the discussion, the MMNL specification is the most flexible preference specification and offers more credibility and depth in the discussion. This sub – section considers practical issues revolving around the MMNL model (such as the number of random draws and the selection of the random parameters). Finally, sub section 3 deals with the empirical results derived from the MMNL specification. This section also summarises the empirical results of the MMNL where random parameters are allowed to be correlated. This is an issue that has rather strangely not been frequently considered in the relevant literature, but offers useful insight to policy makers and practitioners alike. The discussion of the empirical results concludes with a section on cultural entrepreneurship. This chapter, although seemingly unrelated to the normal flow of the discussion so far can be treated as an one – off attempt to address the criticism relating to the issue of cultural quarter sustainability. In particular, the thesis of this chapter is that without properly cultivating native cultural entrepreneurship, efforts towards the establishment of a cultural quarter would be short lived. Thus, this particular section of the analysis deals with factors that could positively affect native cultural entrepreneurship. This chapter carries out a multivariate analysis on the effect of culture and cultural resources on tourists’ decision to visit the Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This multivariate approach is a natural extension of the bivariate descriptive analysis usually undertaken in the literature (Zaidi 2001). The objective of the thesis is to capture the effect of a number of individual variables (such as age, gender and place of residence) as well as tourism phenomena (repeat visit, time of visit) on the importance tourists in Abu Dhabi place on culture and cultural resources. In the process of the thesis, we will also identify the phenomena and variables that affect the positive and negative views regarding native cultural entrepreneurship. Using the binomial and multinomial probability models, we measure how changes in age, income levels, length of stay and other variables trigger changes in cultural appreciation among visitors in Abu Dhabi. The last chapter summarises and interprets the results derived from the descriptive and the econometric results section of the thesis. This chapter in essence is working in parallel to the information provided in other sections of the thesis and aims to bring together all the policy related issues and recommendations mentioned during the thesis. Overall, the purpose of this chapter is to collate all these policy suggestions and recommendations into a chapter that would provide meaningful directions of managers, practitioners and policy decision makers. The focus of this chapter is on heterogeneity and how we capture preference differentiation among respondents. For that purpose, the policy recommendations chapter is structured as follows. We first concentrate on the empirical results derived from the descriptive analysis of the sample and then move on to the empirical results derived from the econometric analysis.

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Thörnblom, Jonas. "Cultural Impact on International Business Negotiation." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1212.

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Background: The increasing global business competitiveness thoroughly intensifies the demand for improvements of communication and negotiation skills in order to adjust competence to successfully conduct the work of getting treaties of cooperation and business development to work everywhere. It is simply a matter of survival for an increasing amount of multinational companies operating in all kinds of different locations and businesses around the world. This state of nature also holds for Swedish and Spanish companies, that both heavily depend on foreign trade, and whose negotiating behavior is going to be the focus of this study. For every international company facing the challenges of developing new business in foreign cultures it should be of interest to find out what would improve their business interactions. The study is therefore investigating possible ways of how to deal with cultural implications that might appear in international business negotiations.

Purpose: To study and analyze the presence of cultural impact on international business negotiations, with a special emphasis on Swedish-Spanish business negotiators.

Method: Considering negotiations as a process-oriented phenomenon observed from empirical studies of individual cases and drawing conclusions thereof, the study takes a hermeneutic qualitative-inductive interaction approach. The frame of references are constitued by a thorough spectra of well established theories developed within the fields of communication, negotiation and intercultural studies.

Result: The study proves that the behavior of negotiators are influencing the outcome of the negotiation, particularly in international contexts where the parties have different experiences, historical and cultural backgrounds as well as different perspectives on life.

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Tan, Jin. "Cross-Cultural Risk Behavior in Financial Decisions and the Cushion Hypothesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/168.

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92 students from a Southern California liberal arts college and two Beijing universities participated in an online questionnaire. Their cultural tendencies (i.e. level of collectivism and perception of family support) and responses to hypothetical investment scenarios were observed. Participants were asked to provide the amount they would invest in each scenario as well as a risk safety rating. The Chinese respondents reported higher cushion and collectivism scores than the Americans. Furthermore, the Chinese sample offered more money for the three riskiest scenarios; they also rated three scenarios safer than the Americans did. The cushion and collectivism scores were not found to predict risk appraisal and amount invested in the scenarios. The results suggest that cultural biases may have an impact on the financial risk-taking behavior of different peoples, but other cultural variables and situational determinants may play an equally influential role in affecting risk perception and investment behavior.

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Tura, Giulia <1988&gt. "Essays in the Economics of the Family and Cultural Transmission." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7869/1/Tura_Giulia_tesi.pdf.

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My research aims at identifying the role cultural-ethnic traits play in marriage choices and at uncovering the implications of marital sorting on consequent intra-household decisions. From different perspectives, this thesis focuses on intermarriages, within the Italian marriage market. In the first chapter, I explore the role of ethnic endogamy on marital instability. I document the existence of a positive differential in marital instability of interethnic marriages compared to homogeneous ones and I demonstrate that genetic and ethnolinguistic measures of cultural diversity are informative about the incidence of marital dissolution. The second chapter investigates a novel channel, which explains the differential in household stability and investments across family types: cultural socialization of children. I propose a marital matching model along cultural-ethnic lines, to study the process of family formation and intra-household decision making in a context where ethnic differences between spouses potentially matter both in terms of preferences and technologies for household production. The observed intermarriage, fertility, separation and socialization rates are in line with theoretical predictions and they are consistent with strong preferences of parents toward cultural socialization of children to their own ethnic identity. In the third chapter, I propose and estimate a marital matching model along ethnic lines. I argue that gains to intermarriage depend on both cultural preferences and legal status motives. Taking advantage of the exogenous EU enlargements to East European countries in 2004 and 2007, I show that gains to intermarriage of East European migrants significantly decrease in response to the acquisition of the legal status. The final chapter aims to understand whether judicial decisions respond to the ethnic identity of spouses and what incentives those judgments are guided, by looking at separation and divorce sentences. Studying the legal custody assignment of children, I document a significant differential interacting mothers’ ethnicities with the family type.

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Valiati, Leandro. "Economia da cultura em perspectiva institucional : mecenato no empresariado urbano-industrial ascendente (1947-1960)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/69993.

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Essa tese aborda o empresário industrial ascendente no contexto da urbanização e industrialização do Brasil sob a perspectiva da prática do mecenato. Tal ação, catalisada pelo desejo, nesse segmento social, de distinção, respondeu a instituições presentes no ambiente de transformação socioeconômica brasileira na primeira metade do século XX. Trata, portanto, de Economia da Cultura, História Econômica e Economia Institucional, propondo a justaposição instrumental de arcabouços teóricos construídos nesses três campos da ciência econômica. O núcleo duro dos pressupostos aqui assumidos é o de que a instalação do setor urbano-industrial brasileiro no período em estudo foi liderada, em sua maior parte, por imigrantes convertidos em empresários industriais, que capitanearam a prática do mecenato para afirmar sua condição de protagonismo social como uma nova elite. A hipótese do trabalho é a de que o mecenato brasileiro no período posterior à Segunda Guerra Mundial (1947-1960) teve como protagonistas membros desse segmento social. Essa nova elite, ligada à indústria e negócios urbanos, teve papel ativo e preponderante no financiamento à cultura em relação à oligarquia agrária, de riqueza mais antiga e enfrentando decadência econômica. Para esse fim, garantindo foco ao estudo, serviram como referencial de análise o contexto da cidade de São Paulo e a identificação empírica dos doadores que formaram o acervo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), efetivada dentro do período em estudo. Para fundamentação e comprovação dessa hipótese foram acionados como estratégia heurística: a) na esfera teórica, os conceitos da Sociologia da Cultura de Pierre Bourdieu e da Economia Institucional de Thorstein Veblen, balizados por uma revisão teórica das origens étnicas, sociais e atuação econômica do empresário industrial brasileiro; b) na esfera empírica, uma pesquisa de campo no acervo do MASP, identificando todas obras doadas ao museu dentro do período estudado e enquadrando em tipologias de segmentos sociais os respectivos doadores. Os resultados obtidos nesse trabalho forneceram elementos para corroborar a hipótese da tese, emergindo como corolário que a busca por afirmação social de novas elites de renda, através da distinção simbólica e consumo conspícuo, como resposta a instituições de uma sociedade urbana e industrial é componente relevante para compreendermos o mecenato no Brasil no período estudado.
This thesis discusses the ascending industrial entrepreneur in the context of Brazilian urbanization and industrialization under the perspective of patronage practices. Such action, catalyzed by the wish, in this specific social segment, of distinction, responded to institutions established in the ambience of Brazilian socio-economic transformation in the XX century’s first half. It discusses, therefore, Cultural Economics, History Economics and Institutional Economics, and proposes the instrumental juxtaposition of theoretical framework constructed in these three fields of Economy Science. The hard core of here assumed presuppositions is that the installation of Brazilian urban-industrial sector in the studied period was, in its most part, leaded by immigrants converted to industrial entrepreneurs, who commanded the practice of patronage to affirm their social protagonist condition as a new elite. This work’s hypothesis is that Brazilian patronage in the period immediately after the Second World War (1947-1960) had members of this social segment as protagonists. This new elite, connected to industry and urban affairs, played an active and preponderant role in the financing of culture, in relation to the agrarian oligarchy, of ancient richness and facing economical decadence. For this purpose, the context of the city of São Paulo and the empirical identification of donators who have constituted the collection of the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP) from 1947 to 1960 served as reference for analysis. In order to ground and validate this hypothesis, the following strategies have been assumed : a) in the theoretical sphere, the concepts of Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology of Culture and Thorstein Veblen’s Institutional Economy, delimited by a theoretical review of ethnic and social origins as well as economic praxis of Brazilian industrial entrepreneur; b) in the empirical sphere, a field research in the MASP collection, identifying all works donated to the museum in the studied period and framing their respective donators in typologies of social segments. The results achieved in this work have provided elements to corroborate the hypothesis of the thesis, emerging as corollary that the pursuit of social affirmation by new income elites, through symbolic distinction and conspicuous consumption, as an answer to institutions of an urban and industrial society is a relevant component to comprehend Brazilian patronage in the studied period.

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Denenny, David Timothy. "Cultural Naturalism and the Market God." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2464.

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This work employs John Dewey's cultural naturalism to explore how and why the orthodox economic tradition functions as a religious faith.Scholars such as the theologian Harvey Cox and others now view orthodox economic practice as a religion. Other scholars such as Max Weber, Alasdair MacIntyre, and numerous others view modern economic practice as exemplifying a particular ethic. The focus in this work is placed upon the destructive consequences of practicing the Market faith. This work argues that much of contemporary economic practice maintains a view of science that is incompatible with the kind of naturalism found in Classical American Pragmatism. The history of the development of economics as a religious faith is explored beginning in the seventeenth-century up to the present day. The philosophical assumptions that have composed this relatively new faith are analyzed in detail. The conclusion provides an account of what we may hope for in the future.

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Verardi, Vincenzo. "The Economics of electoral systems." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211302.

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Laudiero, Angelo. "Art-based third sector organizations and urban regeneration in depressed neighbourhoods: the case of Naples, Italy." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/256289.

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The importance of the creative and cultural capital in the economic development of post-industrial inner cities has been widely demonstrated by urban development literature as it interacts with the physical environment and sustains regeneration processes. However, also in depressed and peripheral neighbourhoods, creative firms, museums, art-based nonprofit organizations, cultural associations, and independent artists can be identified as actors of substantial urban revitalization. The main purpose of this contribution is to understand the potential of third sector organizations related to the arts and culture in the emergence of virtuous patterns in urban regeneration strategies. Data and case study about not-for-profit entities engaged in revitalization projects through innovative artistic expressions in deprived areas of Naples, Italy, are analyzed. Within the general framework of urban redevelopment processes through specific not-for-profit models and tools, this research aims to understand if these actors can be identified as engines of urban regeneration and what lessons policy-makers may learn by these practices.

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Mogendorff, Janine Regina. "A cidade ofertada pelo jornalismo cultural : análise da coluna Seleção da semana de O Estado de S. Paulo (abril-setembro de 2012)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77927.

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Esta dissertação analisa que cidade é oferecida pelo jornalismo cultural a partir da perspectiva da urbe como mercadoria. Para problematizar a questão, nossa escolha recaiu sobre o estudo da coluna Seleção da semana, do Caderno 2 de O Estado de S. Paulo. Primeiramente fizemos um percurso teórico que teve início no cruzamento entre o nascimento do jornalismo e a expansão das cidades, para então desenvolver o conceito de jornalismo cultural, um produto próprio das cidades em um contexto nascente de consumo cultural. A cidade é então o lugar da cultura e da comunicação; o jornalismo, por sua vez, como uma construção da realidade, é um intermediário desse sistema cultural. As transformações sociais, políticas e econômicas do século XX alçaram as cidades como protagonistas do cenário global e consolidaram práticas de mercantilização da cultura, passando o consumo a ser um referencial de identidade. Após o aprofundamento teórico, na segunda parte da nossa pesquisa nos debruçamos sobre 27 edições da coluna Seleção da semana, totalizando um universo de 162 textos. Por meio da análise de conteúdo, buscamos identificar que tipo de produção cultural circula pela coluna, em que lugares de São Paulo a cultura acontece e, tendo respondido a isso, verificar a existência de um mapa de consumo da cultura na cidade. A partir dessa análise verificamos que o jornalismo cultural mostra uma cidade que reúne um mundo dentro de si e que é um lugar de convergência da cultura, fazendo jus a título de uma das doze capitais culturais do mundo.
This Master’s degree final work examines which city is offered by cultural journalism from the perspective of the metropolis as a commodity. To discuss this issue, our choice fell on the study of Seleção da semana section, from Caderno 2 of O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. First we did a theoretical course which began at the intersection between the birth of Journalism and the expansion of cities, and then we developed the concept of Cultural Journalism, itself a product of the rising cities in a context of cultural consumption. Then, the city is the place of culture and communication, Journalism, in turn, as a construction of reality, is an intermediate in this cultural system. The social, political and economic changes in the twentieth century took up the cities as protagonists of global and consolidated practices of culture commercialization, turning consumption into a referential identity. After the theoretical study, at the second part of our research we analyzed 27 editions on Seleção da semana section, in a universe of 162 texts. Through content analysis, we seek to identify which kind of cultural production flows through the section, in which places of São Paulo culture happens and, having the answer to this, we found a map of consumer culture in the city. From this analysis we found that Cultural Journalism shows a city that brings together a world within itself, and that is a place of convergence culture, living up to the title of the twelve cultural capitals of the world.
Esta tesina analiza qué ciudad es oferecida por el periodismo cultural desde el punto de vista de la metrópoli como mercancía. Para discutir el tema, nuestra elección recayó en el estudio de la columna Seleção da semana, Caderno 2 de O Estado de S. Paulo. Primero hicimos un recorrido teórico que se inició en la intersección entre el nacimiento del periodismo y la expansión de las ciudades y a continuación desarrollamos el concepto de periodismo cultural, un producto propio de las ciudades en un contexto naciente de consumo cultural. La ciudad es entonces el lugar de la cultura y de la comunicación, el periodismo, a su vez, como una construcción de la realidad, es un intermediario de ese sistema cultural. Los cambios sociales, políticos y económicos del siglo XX elevaron las ciudades como protagonistas de un escenario global y se profundizaron las prácticas de mercantilización de la cultura, pasando el consumo a ser un referencial de identidad. Después del estudio teórico, en la segunda parte de nuestra investigación nos concentramos sobre 27 ediciones de la columna Seleção da semana, para un universo total de 162 textos. A través del análisis de contenido, tratamos de identificar qué tipo de producción cultural circula por la columna, en qué lugares de São Paulo ocurre y respondiendo a eso, comprobar la existencia de un mapa de consumo de la cultura de la ciudad. A partir de este análisis verificamos que el periodismo cultural muestra una ciudad que reúne un mundo dentro de sí misma y que es un lugar de convergencia de la cultura, haciendo justicia al título de una de las doce capitales culturales del mundo.

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Bosley, Cicely. "THE ECONOMICS OF A YOUNG AUDIENCE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3644.

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As a theatre for young audiencesÂ (TYA) teacher, artist, and administrator, I seek to explore where and how TYA fits into business and economic models to open a dialogue between TYA practitioners and business administration professionals. Through this qualitative study, I endeavor to foster a new language for TYA practitioners to enhance fundraising and audience development. By its own definition, TYA is a hybrid field that strives for both artistic form and educative function. With a dual focus of form and function, administrators struggle to advocate for TYA organizations within existing models. To move through this challenge, I look to analyze select extant models in an effort to address a new hybrid model that better suits a hybrid field. This project arises from the persistent challenges found within the TYA field of defining and valuing our work for and with young people, so I approach this research as a TYA practitioner seeking tools for advocacy. Through my work as a teacher and artist moving into a business office, I observed marketing and development directors from the non-TYA fields challenged by the nature of our work. Paralleling that challenge, I struggle to articulate the necessity of my work with young people as equal to the importance of artistic excellence. My research leads me to believe that TYA does not neatly affix to any business model, but an analysis and marriage of several models may create a working model which TYA practitioners can employ.
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Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim. "Museums in Qatar : creating narratives of history, economics and cultural co-operation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11328/.

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This thesis traces the history of museums in Qatar to investigate a significant period of transformation - politically, economically and socially - and their role in the reordering of ' things'. I compare the way in which Qatari museums have been used during two different eras, from the 19705 to 1995 and from 1995 to the current day, to demonstrate how museums in Qatar have been politically driven and where they have been used to strengthen a national profile, locally. region ally and globally. A specific study of Qatar National Museum allows for an exploration of how Sheikh Khalifa's aims for the museums in the country changed the community's understanding of their everyday objects, when they were shown in a museum context as a part of a specific narrative of history and change. The economic, social and political paradigm shifts that Qatar is witnessing currently have brought about recognition of the need for a wider and more important role for museums and their acquisitions. Alongside moves to modernise the country, there has begun to be an emphasis on the need to preserve Qatar's traditions and heritage and the desire to rebuild some sites and cities from Qatar's hi story. Throughout these projects, Qatari and Islamic heritage have been utilised in the politicians' vision and plans for globalisation and modernisation. The new museum culture in Qatar acts as a very powerful tool to generate narratives about the country as a nation; however, the opening of these new museums invites debate about why certain objects have been brought together and why specific narratives have been constructed around them. I have completed this research as both a curator employed by the Museums Authority in Qatar since 1998, and as a doctoral student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. This has created an interesting tension in my work. As an insider, I have had to engage with the cultural basis of understanding demanded of a curator working in Qatar. However, as a research student, I have been required to question, analyse and critique Qatari museum practice. This is the first thesis to explore the history of museums in Qatar conducted by a Qatari employed by the Museums Authority and I have addressed the challenges of this position in my research.

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Taves, Sylla John Lerro 1974. "As universidades e as estratégias de Incentivo à cultura : Salamanca, Espanha e Campinas, Brasil." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284990.

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Orientador: Edson do Prado Pfutzenreuter
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O objetivo global deste estudo foi a busca por um amplo levantamento informativo e descritivo sobre os contextos institucionais, econômicos e sociais que compõem o ambiente cultural de duas cidades que abrigam universidades de grande relevância regional e internacional. O interesse por este estudo surgiu da experiência profissional do autor como produtor cultural, gestor universitário e de sua vivência nas duas universidades. Podemos definir que os levantamentos foram elaborados para subsidiar a construção de um diagnóstico geral, capaz de representar os ambientes que abrigam potentes sistemas de produção acadêmica e cultural. O mapeamento das estruturas institucionais, do contexto histórico, dos hábitos culturais, do turismo, da economia criativa e de outros fatores nos ajuda a caracterizar estes ambientes, identifica relações intrínsecas e promove a compreensão de como os sistemas culturais se configuram localmente. Nesse contexto, complementamos o estudo com uma comparação das cidades por suas diferenças e semelhanças, visualizadas na análise comparativa dos hábitos e de suas práticas culturais (teatro, festivais de música, entre outros), levando-se em consideração a capacidade de formação cultural de cada universidade, a relevância local em suas cidades sede e a economia da cultura envolvida. As cidades selecionadas são Salamanca, Espanha e Campinas, Brasil e as universidades escolhidas são, respectivamente, a Universidade de Salamanca (USAL) e a Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Embora existam outras universidades nessas cidades, as instituições selecionadas são as maiores em número de estudantes, orçamento, produtividade acadêmica, entre outras qualidades de excelência, reconhecidas em nível nacional e internacional. Por exemplo, Salamanca é mundialmente reconhecida por sua cultura e atmosfera universitária e a USAL, fundada em 1218, está entre as universidades mais antigas da Europa. Da mesma forma, Campinas é uma cidade de mais de um milhão de pessoas e lar de uma das melhores universidades do país, a UNICAMP, com o maior índice nacional de produção acadêmica e um dos principais centros de pesquisa e inovação no país
Abstract: The overall objective of this study was to seek a broad informative and descriptive survey of institutional, economic and social contexts that compound the atmosphere of two cities that are home to universities of large regional and international relevance. The interest for this study is related to the professional experience of the author as a cultural producer, university officer and his experience at both universities. We may say that the survey was done to subsidize the construction of a general global mapping, capable of representing the atmosphere that houses powerful academic and cultural production systems. The mapping of institutional structures, the historical context, cultural habits, tourism, creative economy and other factors helps us to characterize these environments, identifies intrinsic relations and promotes understanding of how cultural systems are configured locally. In this context, we seek to complement the study with a comparison of cities by their similarities and differences in many aspects observed in the comparative analysis of their cultural practices (theater, music festivals, among other examples), considering the cultural training capacity of each university, their host cities, and the economy of the local culture. The two cities of interest are Salamanca, Spain and Campinas, Brazil, and the universities chosen in these cities are respectively, the University of Salamanca (USAL) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Although there are other universities in these cities, the selected institutions are the largest in number of students, budget, and academic productivity, among other qualities of excellence, acknowledged nationally and internationally. For example, Salamanca is world-renowned for its culture and for its collegiate atmosphere and the University of Salamanca, founded in 1218, is believed to be the third oldest university in Europe. Similarly, Campinas is a city of over a million people and home to one of the best universities in the country, UNICAMP, with the highest national rate of academic production and one of the major research and innovation centers in the country. OBSERVAÇÃOMinha área de concentração não aparece no formulário, sou do programa antigo de ARTES, minha área de concentração correta seria Economia Criativa, agora não sei como pode ser feito este ajuste no sistema
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Sompong, Pit. "The effects of multinational agribusiness on socio-economic and cultural change in Thailand." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306909.

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Gábor, Sömjéni. "Is there any economic influence on the cultural expenditures? : A framework of the UK culture sector." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15917.

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This paper explores the relation between the governmental expenditures on the cultural sector and the performance of the economy in the UK. In welfare economies it is the government’s role to shorten the effects of the occurring market failures. It is shown that in the cultural sector, two market failures, the high fix cost and the productivity lag are appearing. In order to ease these effects the government intervening into the market mechanisms by giving grants and subsidies to the stakeholders. In the empirical part a time series analysis is executed between the GDP, the total governmental expenditures and the governmental expenditures on the cultural services on a 60 years interval in the UK. It is shown that the three variables have the same order of integration, they move together over time, furthermore cointegration was detected between them. With Granger causality test it was proven that there is a bidirectional informal connection between the performance of economy and the government’s cultural expenditures.

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Stewart, Hope. "Social Responsibility in Entrepreneurial Economies| A Cross-cultural Analysis of Stakeholder Management." Thesis, The American University of Paris (France), 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13871665.

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As global frontiers of innovation, countries leading the way in entrepreneurship are responsible for forging a new understanding of the role of business in society, one that considers the impact of cultural values on driving and maintaining dynamic forms of economic growth. This thesis will examine the role cultural factors play in creating a flourishing entrepreneurial environment and how they define the relationship between business and society while influencing expectations of social responsibility. It also explores whether certain social environments are more conducive to entrepreneurship, and as such what role entrepreneurs play in those societies to encourage economic development and innovation. Utilizing data obtained from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the research of Geert Hofstede, traits associated with traditional entrepreneurship theory will be aligned with corresponding cultural dimensions. Traits associated with social responsibility will then be connected to their corresponding dimensions to determine their impact on new business activity, and to demonstrate that these countries may be more predisposed to practice stakeholder management. The case study will also include an examination of Hungary and what the research findings mean for countries with cultural dimensions reflecting traditional entrepreneurship theory rather than stakeholder theory, and provide recommendations as to how each cultural dimension can be adapted to improve stakeholder engagement with actors in both government and society. The thesis will demonstrate that today’s entrepreneurs are driven as much by the desire for affiliation as they are by the need for achievement, and undertaking an effective stakeholder strategy is the best way to fulfill that affiliation, thereby improving the entrepreneurial environment, encouraging innovation, and creating a strategy for entrepreneurs to be socially responsible.

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Himanka, L. (Laura). "Relationship building in cross-cultural business-to-business context." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201705312240.

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During the past decades, international trade of goods and services has been growing fast. In the globalizing market, understanding cultural differences is essential. When building customer relationships across national borders, the possibility of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings is substantial and many factors must be taken into consideration. In business-to-business market the importance of individual customers is emphasized. High customer loyalty can improve a company’s performance significantly by increasing revenue and reducing customer acquisition costs. Therefore, the importance of relationship quality cannot be questioned. This thesis is a literature review that seeks to find the key elements of cross-cultural relationship strength by first studying the elements of relationship quality and then combining these findings to the cross-cultural context.

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Aspvik, Emma, and Eveline Aspvik. "Cultural Diversity Management : A Study of a Swedish Multinational Company." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64938.

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Globalization has opened up national borders, which has led to a spread of companies globally and a culturally diverse nature of labor. Efficient cultural diversity management (CDM) has become a significant challenge for organizations and managers have to find ways of managing a cross-cultural staff, as a disregard of cultural dissimilarities is the cause of most failures by cross-national businesses. The literature on diversity management has mainly been focused on domestic models, resulting in a lack of research regarding how this is done in an international context and how multinational companies (MNCs) are answering to an increasingly globalized staff. To address this gap, this study contributes to the existing literature by examining CDM within a MNC. In order to provide a better understanding of how to manage cultural diversity in a multinational company, two research questions were stated, which focused on approaches and managerial skills within CDM. The study was conducted using a qualitative case study approach and data was collected through three semi-structured interviews with managers within a Swedish MNC. The findings showed that the investigated MNC uses five out of seven approaches outlined inprevious literature regarding CDM, whereas four of them are used to some extent and one to agreater extent. Furthermore, the literature outlined 29 managerial skills, whereas the findings supported 12 of them but also contributed with a number of additional managerial skills perceived as necessary. Overall, the findings showed that the investigated MNC both encourages and is positive toward cultural diversity at the workplace.
Gränser mellan länder öppnas upp som ett resultat av globaliseringen, vilket har resulterat i en spridning av företag globalt och en kulturellt varierande arbetskraft. Effektiv hantering av kulturell mångfald har blivit en stor utmaning för företag. Chefer måste hitta sätt att hantera en tvärkulturell arbetskraft eftersom ignorans av kulturella olikheter är orsaken till flest misslyckanden hos gränsöverskridande företag. Litteraturen gällande hantering av kulturell mångfald har i huvudsak fokuserat på inhemska modeller, vilket har resulterat i att det saknas forskning gällande hur detta görs i ett internationellt sammanhang samt hur multinationella företag svarar på en alltmer globaliserad arbetskraft. Denna studie bidrar till den befintliga litteraturen genom att undersöka hur kulturell mångfald kan hanteras inom ett multinationellt företag. För att nå en bättre förståelse för hur man hanterar kulturell mångfald i ett multinationellt företag, formulerades två forskningsfrågor med fokus på tillvägagångssätt och chefliga kompetenser för att hantera kulturell mångfald. Denna studie utfördes genom en kvalitativ fallstudie och data samlades in genom tre semistrukturerade intervjuer med chefer inom ett svenskt multinationellt företag. Resultaten visade att det undersökta multinationella företaget använder fem av sju tillvägagångssätt som är presenterade i tidigare litteratur om CDM, medan fyra av dem används i viss utsträckning och en i större utsträckning. Vidare redogjorde litteraturen för 29 ledarskapskompetenser. Resultaten bekräftade 12 av dem men bidrog även med ett antal ytterligare ledarskapskompetenser som uppfattades som nödvändiga. Sammantaget visade resultaten att det undersökta multinationella företaget både uppmuntrar och är positivt mot kulturell mångfald på arbetsplatsen.

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Meng, Zhenhao. "Effects of Nostalgia on Subjective Well-Being| Evidence from Rural China." Thesis, Purdue University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10600583.

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This study investigates the subjective well-being of Chinese rural-urban migrants by examining the effects of nostalgia and perceived authenticity in the context of rural tourism. The rural-urban migration and rural tourism are unique phenomena in contemporary China. Since 1978 when the country’s dramatic economic reform began, China has witnessed a rapid and unprecedented process of urbanization. Due to economic disparity between rural and urban regions, people from rural regions have been flocking to urban regions, which has resulted in a large-scale flow of rural-urban migration. However, having settled in big cities with changes of life experience, the migrants now join in the recent boom of rural tourism as part of their pursuit of happiness.

Founded on the theories of tourist motivation and nostalgia and drawn on selected Chinese philosophical values, this study develops a conceptual model of rural tourism motivation for rural-urban migrants. The model identifies the unique Chinese philosophical values of both “searching for ancestral roots” and “old home/hometown” as key factors of motivation for rural-urban migrants returning to rural destinations. The empirical evidence shows that rural-urban migrants have strong desires to return to rural regions in search of their past memories, personal heritages, and ancestral roots. Rural destinations contain unique cultures, customs, environments, and lifestyles with which migrants were once very familiar. For those rural-urban migrants, nostalgia is found to be the key push factor that motivates them to return to rural destinations because of the Chinese philosophical value of “old home/hometown”. To them, this philosophical value means more than any particular rural destination or their actual home villages. It represents their personal life stories, family histories, and true self-identities. Therefore, a visit to rural destinations is not merely a tourism activity to them—it is a particular way to find their inner peace, past memories, and values, fulfilling their need for self-actualization and improving their subjective well-being. The analysis of the textual interview data in the study benefited from the introduction of such Chinese philosophical values as exemplified by the sayings of “fallen leaves return to the roots” and “searching for ancestral roots”.

The study also found that there is a discrepancy between the expectation of rural-urban migrants returning to rural regions and the reality of what they perceive. Rapid social development and reconstruction have not only occurred in urban China, but substantial developments have also taken place in rural regions. Therefore, rural-urban migrants perceive that many original aspects of rurality, rural community, and rural culture have been lost. The findings from the study reveal that rural-urban migrants pursue an authentic rural destination, which would have an emotional and memorable appeal, because it arouses their nostalgic feelings. The way they perceive authenticity largely depends on their past life stories and the comparisons with and reflection on their current lives and visiting experiences, which is very emotionally complex. The study invokes an age-old Chinese philosophical value to understand their perception process of authenticity: “one can’t have fish and bear at the same time”. The perception process is tantamount to balance between preserving authenticity and modern development rather than giving up one aspect to the other. The migrants value the importance of preserving rural originality; yet, they believe in the necessity of changing and transforming some aspects of rural regions. They are pursuing neither the pure format of objective authenticity nor constructive authenticity. They look for the combined efforts of integrating modern elements into rural tradition, culture, and authenticity.

The results from the study are pragmatically valuable for rural destinations and tourism businesses to apply the understanding of nostalgia and other motivational factors for effective product development and marketing. Furthermore, preserving rural culture and authenticity through proper rural tourism development can improve the overall social and cultural welfare of hosting communities and the subjective well-being of tourists. The review of the research process illustrates the impact and importance of integrating Chinese philosophical values into academic inquiries on the consumers of the Chinese tourism market instead of explaining Chinese phenomena based only on Western theories.

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Nunez, Noriega Luis. "Production and commercialization of bacanora: An economic opportunity for Sonora, Mexico?" Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298734.

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This dissertation examines the opportunities and constraints surrounding the production and commercialization of bacanora, which is analyzed as an economic alternative for Sonora, in the context of a new legal and economic environment that forces farmers to become competitive and efficient. It integrates many topics related to the knowledge of Agave angustifolia and other Agavaceae and the study of several distillates from agaves, contributing to the emergence and development of the bacanora industry in Sonora, Mexico. The economy of small-scale bacanora producers in the sierras is analyzed. Cost and return estimates for the activity show the relative profitability of bacanora making. Subsequent analyses of marketing strategies indicate that serrana producers have potential in bacanora production by adopting or adapting different technologies and marketing schemes. The new institutional frame will increase competition among producers, which in turn will put greater pressures on agave populations. Therefore, more research on domestication of agave is required to find sustainable solutions to avoid overexplcitation of the resource. The major outlet for increased bacanora production is the international market, especially the United States. However, regional and national markets might provide an important group of consumers, as derived from the study of the tequila and mescal industries.

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McIntyre, Christopher Robert 1963. "The rhetoric and realities of the U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278146.

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This thesis begins with a discussion of the theory behind free trade, and then examines some of the political rhetoric surrounding current free trade negotiations. This rhetoric ignores the potential pitfalls of free trade, and alternatives which would lead to more balanced development. The U.S.-Mexico FTA is placed in global perspective, with a discussion of the GATT. The maquiladora industry, dominated by multinational corporations, is presented as a "sneak preview" of free trade. This agreement would generate multiple realities, in that it would mean different things to different groups of people; it will have numerous negative effects, especially on Mexico's rural population. The ideological rhetoric obscures the fact that a primary result of free trade will not be broad economic development, but rather further polarization of society and the enrichment of certain vested interests.

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Fulfrost, Brian 1969. "Four hectares and a hoe: Maragoli smallholders and land tenure law in Kenya." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278467.

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The paper outlines the historical development of Kenyan land tenure reform in relation to a group of smallholders in Maragoli. The transformation of common property into private property has not completely destroyed the authority of local institutions in matters of land tenure and land use. Customary social obligations have continued to play a role in the decision-making process of smallholders in Maragoli. The government in Kenya continues to be uninformed by the socioeconomic realities that affect smallholders. Agrarian law and administration should be built on the kinds of agricultural systems that are being practiced by the majority of the population in Kenya.

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Cameron, Samuel. "Cultural economics and arts markets." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9854.

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Campos, Catarina Sofia Pereira. "Is Cultural Intelligence also Important in Repatriation?" Master's thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/139098.

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Simpson, Beth Michaela. "Environment, economics, and consumption : conflicting cultural models." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13163.

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Rising evidence of environmental degradation led to rising levels of public as well as scientific concern about environmental issues in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Part of the Prospect for Sustainability in the Lower Fraser Basin project, this sociological study uses Cultural Modelling theory to explain why, when so many people express concern for the environment, so few people are actively involved in forms of environmental activism, especially those that call for real commitment. Two main questions were investigated: First, are dominant economic and consumption cultural models more salient to most respondents than cultural models of the environment? Second, is it the case that individuals who are seriously committed to and actively participate in behaviours targeted at the protection of the environment, are less likely to hold the dominant cultural models of the economy and of consumption? Data from three samples were compared. One sample consisted of responses from 107 purposefully sampled community leaders from Abbotsford, BC, a community known to have environmental problems. The other two samples come from a randomly sampled survey. One sample was based on the population of British Columbia (N=1533), the other is an oversample of Abbotsford (N= 100) from the same study. Respondents from all data sets were asked a series of questions regarding which sorts of behaviours supporting environmental issues they participated in, and which forms environmentally friendly consumption they engage in. Other questions measured opinion regarding the environment and economics. Statistical analyses reveal widespread concern for the environment but very little in the way of committed behaviour regarding the protection of the environment. The findings also show a very widespread acceptance of economic cultural models supporting economic growth and strong economies. The research concludes that those individuals who embrace an ecological stance, while rejecting dominant cultural models of economic growth and consumption, are more likely to behave in ways that minimize their impact on the environment. The study also calls for a different environmental discourse that confronts and insistently attacks dominant cultural models and the taken-for-granted assumptions we live with.

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Macário, Guilherme Patrunilho Efe. "Investment in Arts and Culture in urban contexts: exploratory relations between cultural and tourist agents in Porto." Master's thesis, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/80713.

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Macário, Guilherme Patrunilho Efe. "Investment in Arts and Culture in urban contexts: exploratory relations between cultural and tourist agents in Porto." Dissertação, 2015. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/80713.

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Findlay, Marama. "Māori tribal organisations and new institutional economics." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2498.

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This thesis investigates the iwi (Māori tribal) organisations established in New Zealand in the 1980s and 1990s to manage resources being transferred as a result of Treaty of Waitangi settlements and the devolution of government services. The research has two objectives. Firstly, it aims to document iwi organisations’ establishment and operation from the viewpoint of those working inside the organisations. Secondly, it compares insider perspectives with economic theories concerning the causes, consequences and development of economic institutions. To address the first objective, the research gathers qualitative data for three iwi organisations and uses these to construct case reports. An inductive comparison across cases finds that while the underlying motivation for creating the iwi organisations is a desire to live as Māori, the immediate stimuli are opportunities negotiated with government. Iwi are chosen, in preference to other Māori groups, because of their size and traditional status and organisational success is dependent on meeting the requirements of both members and external parties. To address the second objective, the research examines a number of theories from new institutional economics which assist understanding of the empirical findings. To adequately explain iwi organisations as a whole, however, and to assess the relative explanatory power of the theories, they must be connected into a single explanatory framework. The research constructs a framework using the concept of social capital, understood as the combination of all the socio-economic institutions operating to make collective action possible. The framework proposes that socio-economic institutions can have an influence and value independent of other forms of capital. Viewing new iwi organisations through the constructed theoretical framework casts them as intermediaries, managing relational contracts between tribal members and external parties. The relational contracts with members constitute bonding social capital and are characterised by informal institutions of high intrinsic value, considerable relationship-specific social capital, transferability across tasks but not persons, and a preference for voice over exit. Relational contracts with external parties are primarily instrumental in value and formal institutions play a significant role; they show variability in the importance of informal institutions, relationship-specific social capital, transferability and preference for exit over voice. The thesis presents an insider’s view of new iwi organisations and then translates this view into the concepts of new institutional economics. In doing so, it contributes to two discussions: first, on the appropriate way to understand new iwi organisations; second, on the appropriate way for new institutional economics to understand society’s economic institutions.

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Neto, Joana Margarida Sequeira. "Cultural competence among Ukrainian economic immigrants in Portugal." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/77582.

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