Contents: Introduction: The 'country' vs. 'Place' and 'marketing' vs. 'Branding' conundrum / Nicolas Papadopoulos and Mark Cleveland -- Part I: 'birds of a feather, all over the place': My neighbourhood, my town, my country -- 1. Conceptions of place: From streets and neighbourhoods to towns,...

Language intricately interweaves with culture. Acquiring another language provides the tools for interpreting that culture's values and rules guiding social engagement. Hundreds of millions of consumers are currently learning and using English as a second (or third, etc.) tongue. To what extent...

Purpose: This paper studies the sociocultural drivers of materialism cross-culturally. Research in this area is scarce, even though rapid social transformations worldwide, fueled by globalization, make it imperative to identify the conditions under which commonalities and differences in...