Search for dissertations about: "shopping"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 91 swedish dissertations containing the word shopping.
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1. Praxitopia : How shopping makes a street vibrant
Abstract : During recent decades, shopping’s geographical manifestations have altered radically and the presumed ‘death’ of town centre retailing has become a public concern. The social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of this decentralisation of retail and its effects on city life have been studied comprehensively. READ MORE
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2. Internet grocery shopping : a necessity, a pleasurable adventure, or an act of love? : a longitudinal study 1998-2003 of 23 Swedish households
Abstract : Shopping for groceries on the Internet has been an alternative for Swedish consumers since 1996. Despite a huge interest in this behavior from consumers, retailers and the media, Internet grocery shopping has not diffused among the Swedish consumers. Many of the Internet grocery distributors have shut down their business. READ MORE
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3. Understanding Social Media Shopping : Instagram and the reconfiguration of the practice of shopping
Abstract : In the recent past, social media has gradually evolved from a platfrom for communication and personal exchange to a space where contemporary consumer desires are awakened, directed, and also fulfilled. Instagram, in particular, is one of the social media platforms that has made specific design decisions to combine the social and entertaining aspects of the native, virtual social media experience with shopping and consumption. READ MORE
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4. Performing Co-production : On the logic and practice of shopping at IKEA
Abstract : Contemporary western society has often been described as a “consumer society” in relation to the producer oriented form that characterised the industrial society. While consumer habits used to be seen as a reflection of a person’s occupational status or place in a stable societal hierarchy, it has now become recognised as a practice through which people’s identity and status is partially defined by the choices they make as consumers. READ MORE
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5. Energy Efficiency in Shopping Malls : Some Aspects Based on a Case Study
Abstract : The building sector accounts for approximately 40 percent of our energy use. To reach existing environmental targets energy use will have to be reduced in all building types. At the European level, the main legislative instrument for improving the energy efficiency of the building stock is the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). READ MORE