Abstract The car is one of the few luxury items that historically widely accepted in Germany, land “discreet consumption.” This contribution draws on social science research, includes writings popular culture, and presents examples from people their cars media give evidence how increasingly emotionally charged, enriched, negotiated. Cars were status symbols Germany as a divided nation, with Wes...

today, mass media act like a magic mirror, not only reflecting the reality of societies, but also projecting a variety of images onto people’s thoughts. because of this great ability to produce, reproduce and disperse images, mass media have acquired considerable influence on people’s lives. among the different media, the television in particular has become an inseparable part of most iranian h...

Luxury hotels generate substantial carbon footprint and scholarly research is urgently required to better understand how it could be effectively mitigated. This study adopts a method of life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) assess the performance six luxury, five star, located in Iran. The results assessment luxury Iran are compared against values reported past hotel research. current finds that up...

Component sharing may look great in the boardroom but not in the showroom. Indeed, savings on research and development and production costs could be offset by a plunge in customer brand attractiveness. The central objective of this paper is to investigate consumer and market responses toward component sharing between brands. More specifically, by combining experimental with econometric studies,...

This paper builds on existing research investigating CSR and ethical consumption within luxury contexts, and makes several contributions to the literature. First, it addresses existing knowledge gaps by exploring the ways in which consumers perform ethical luxury purchases of fine jewellery through interpretive research. Second, the paper is the first to examine such issues of consumer ethics b...