Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches trust, this book provides a general theoretical framework to explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at...

1. Integrating ethnographic consumer research using facet theory and the mapping sentence / Paul M.W. Hackett -- 2. Ethics in qualitative consumer research / Grant C. Aguirre and Michael R. Hyman -- 3. Recruitment and sampling in consumer research / Kathryn Roulston and Briana Martinez -- 4....

Preface -- Introduction: what is consumer ethnography : the "big E" and "little e" in consumer research? / by Paul M.W. Hackett & Roxana Maiorescu -- Integrating ethnographic consumer research using facet theory and the mapping sentence / Paul M.W. Hackett -- Ethics in qualitative consumer...

"Addressing the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade, this book uses an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes. It offers a situated account of traders' understanding of regulatory...

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship,...

Introduction : Liangshan and its entrepreneurs -- Nuosu traditional culture and social change -- The Liangshan economic setting and private entrepreneurs -- Private sector development in nine Liangshan counties -- Comparative profiles of Nuosu and Han entrepreneurs -- The effect of entrepreneurs...

In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century--the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S....