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From marketing to market practices: Assembling the ruin bars of Budapest
Lugosi, Peter; Erdelyi, Peter - 2009
In this paper we turn our attention to the classical marketing problems of product/service launch and development, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘ruin bars’ in Budapest between 1999 and 2009. Traditionally the marketing discipline has been content with adopting the abstract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429755
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From Marketing to Market Practices: Assembling the Ruin Bars of Budapest
Lugosi, Peter; Erdelyi, Peter - 2009
In this paper we turn our attention to the classical marketing problems of product/service launch and development, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘ruin bars’ in Budapest between 1999 and 2009. Traditionally the marketing discipline has been content with adopting the abstract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429756
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Increasing returns and social contagion in cultural industries
Kretschmer, Martin; Klimis, G.M.; Choi, C.J. - 1999
A formal definition of cultural industries is developed following four distinct features of cultural goods: (a) oversupply, (b) quality uncertainty, (c) network effects and (d) demand reversal. Drawing on economic and socio-psychological notions of ‘network’, increasing returns and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429796
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The Production of Hospitable Space: Commercial Propositions and Consumer Co-Creation in a Bar Operation
Lugosi, Peter - 2009
This paper examines the processes through which a commercial bar is transformed into a hospitable space. Drawing on a study of a venue patronized by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender consumers, it considers how social and commercial forms of hospitality are mobilized. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429771
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The development of new products in the personal financial services sector
Davison, Heather - 1990
The development of new products in the personal finacial services (PFS) sector is an area that is being increasingly relied upon by organisations to provide competitive differentiation in the highly competitive environment that they now operate within. Despite this reliance, relatively little is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429673
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Relationship and Network Approach to Innovation and Capabilities Building in Small and Medium-Sized UK Organic Food and Drink Suppliers: A Literature Review
Ngugi, Isaac K.; Johnsen, Rhona E.; Erdelyi, Peter - 2008
Both business and consumer markets of food and drink are increasingly changing, concomitant with changing consumer … for the way firms in the food and drink industry conduct their business. Nevertheless, unlike large firms, small suppliers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429738
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Economies of scale and capital utilisation in the English and Welsh water supply industry
Ashton, J.K. - 1999
This study estimates a variable cost model of the UK water industry. From this variable cost function, estimates of economies of scale and economies of capital utilisation and capacity utilisation are made. The data used in the study consists of 20 English and Welsh water companies. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429869
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From Marketing to Market Practices: Assembling the Ruin Bars of Budapest
Erdelyi, Peter; Lugosi, Peter - 2009
In this paper we turn our attention to the classical marketing problems of product/service launch and development, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘ruin bars’ in Budapest between 1999 and 2009. Traditionally the marketing discipline has been content with adopting the abstract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429898
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Organising Performance in E-Commerce Firms: A Multi-Case Study of Small Retailers in the South of England
Erdelyi, Peter - 2008
information and communication technologies (ICTs) by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a key driver for productivity … entrepreneurship through the use of ICTs, including e-commerce technologies. These political aspirations for building a “knowledge … rephrased question asks: “How is performance organised (and organising performed) in small e-commerce retailers and what is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429899
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Organizing Competences: The Role of ICTs in Strategy Formation in SMEs
Erdelyi, Peter - 2007
The competence perspective of the firm (encompassing the Resource-Based View, the Knowledge-Based View, evolutionary theory and other theories of competence and capabilities) offers the notion of “differential organizing competence” for conceptualising the capability to organise as a source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429902