The major objective of this workshop is to probe the enhancement of consumer research by providing evidence and theoretical inspiration from non-Western contexts for a more reliable and inclusive body of knowledge. Given the low number of publications on consumer research in non-Western...

Proposed themes include: - The risks inherent in DC schemes. - Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members - Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme...

The conference will convene development practitioners, policy experts and academic researchers from around the world to examine the ways in which the food and fuel price volatility, financial market volatility and global economic slowdown are affecting children and youth in both developing and...

The 2009 Cambridge Symposium on International Manufacturing (CamSIM) will focus on 'configuring manufacturing value chains'. It will explore how leading firms are responding to the uncertainties of global supply and the current economic downturn. It will highlight novel approaches currently...

Ziel ist es, die Vielfalt und Interdisziplinarität des Themas mit ihrer Verknüpfung verschiedener räumlicher Untersuchungsebenen darzustellen. Zur inhaltlichen Strukturierung heben wir zwei Schwerpunkte hervor: - Die Migrationen nach Europa sind durch eine zunehmende Diversität der Migranten...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

Gerade in wirtschaftlich schwierigen Zeiten gewinnt CRM zusätzlich an Bedeutung. Auf der diesjährigen CRM-Jahrestagung erleben Sie die besten ExpertInnen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum und die CRM-Veranwortlichen aus führenden Unternehmen.

The conference partners invite abstract submissions from any field of social marketing to be considered for oral presentations, workshops, flash presentations or posters in the following conference streams: • Academic • Theory and Policy • Practical application of social marketing.

The Colloquium organisers invite submission of papers for presentation at the 16th International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing. Papers are particularly encouraged which: - Provide new and challenging insights to the study of buyer-seller relationships, particularly from the perspectives...

Concepts and experiences of the life-course have been critical to making sense of gender difference and women’s lives in the past, and have traditionally been a central concern of historians of women. Integral to pioneering work on the history of reproduction and the family, work and leisure,...