This paper investigates how the marketing/entrepreneurship interface functions within the cultural sector. Specifically, the paper considers how cultural entrepreneurs in the music industry market not to customers, but to networks that control the resources necessary to support entrepreneurial ventures. Evidence is drawn from the qualitative research of a study on access to finance by owner-man...

BACKGROUND Liáng chá ("cooling tea", "herbal tea" or "cool tisane" in Chinese) are herbal drinks widely produced in southern China and consumed by billions of people worldwide to prevent and treat internal heat as well as a range of associated health conditions. Globalization and renewed interest in botanical remedies has attracted growing attention in cooling herbal drinks by industry, scienti...

this article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of iran. moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standardisa...

When policymakers invest in urban infrastructure, there are concerns that poor residents living near the infrastructure will be displaced. This paper investigates mechanisms may lead to such infrastructure-induced gentrification using a general equilibrium commuting model. Our goal is elucidate channels through which occurs and understand how policy choices mitigate or accentuate gentrification.

The paper examines the formation of color categories and color terms in a population of autonomous individuals, i.e. simulated agents. Each agent is modeled to perceive color stimuli, to categorize the stimuli and to lexicalize the categories in order to communicate with other agents in the population. During these interactions the agents adapt their internal representations to be more successf...