Search for dissertations about: "Status Consumption"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 201 swedish dissertations containing the words Status Consumption.

  2. 1. Status Spotting- A Consumer Cultural Exploration into Ordinary Status Consumption of "Home" and Home Aesthetics

    Author : Sofia Ulver; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Status; Consumers; Home; Aesthetics; lifestyle; Status Consumption; Marketing; Consumer Culture; Globalization;

    Abstract : When lumping the notions of “status” and “consumption” together, people often think of expensive brands, conspicuous luxury, bling-bling and spectacular extravaganza. Not least in the case of the “home,” such associations go to Hollywood stars, spacious mansions, famous architects, swimming pools, and high-priced furniture design frenzy. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation

    Author : Paula Roth; Erik Lindqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inequality; Relative Deprivation; Consumption; Household Debt; Risk-sharing; Social Comparison; Status; Conspicuous Consumption; Innovation; Occupational Choice; Insolvency; Entrepreneurship; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : First Impressions Last – Does Inequality Increase Status Consumption and Household Debt? (with Elin Molin): Recent decades have seen an increase in income inequality and household debt-to-GDP ratios in many countries, and several studies have suggested that higher income inequality spurs borrowing among nonrich households through their preference to "Keep up with the Joneses". In this paper, we show that standard Keeping up with the Joneses utility functions cannot generate this relationship unless one imposes the implausible assumption that the rich are more impatient than the nonrich. READ MORE

  5. 3. Co-Creating Value : Reframing Interactions in Service Consumption

    Author : Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk; Sten Söderman; Per Skålén; Bino Catasús; Tore Strandvik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Value; interaction; service; co-creation; operant resources; consumption; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : How producers and consumers interact in the market and integrate resources is fundamental for our understanding of how value and value creation develop in contemporary economy. Value co-creation in markets has gained renewed interest in marketing theory. READ MORE

  6. 4. Consumption of financial services in global mobility : A Cephalopodic consumption mode?

    Author : Alisa Minina; Per Olof Berg; Natalia Tolstikova; Lisa Penaloza; Giana Eckhardt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global mobility; financial services; service relationships; acculturation; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : In the interconnected world of today more and more people get on the move. We go abroad for vacations, visits or business trips and we change countries of residence as we pursue new opportunities. Cross-border mobility is becoming part of our life. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Shaken Self on Shopping : Consumer Threats and Compensatory Consumption

    Author : Tobias Otterbring; Per Kristensson; Michael Dahlén; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; threat-compensation effects; compensatory consumption; belief-behavior inconsistencies; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : In a series of experiments, with a total sample of over 2,400 participants, this thesis investigates how various threats that customers may encounter influence the customers’ subsequent purchase and choice behaviors. Furthermore, this thesis examines whether individuals’ predicted behaviors in certain consumer contexts are congruent with customers’ actual behaviors in these very contexts. READ MORE