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Publication date: 26 October 2018

Chris Dyer

The paper aims to show how you can create a lasting cultural change within a company.

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Purpose

The paper aims to show how you can create a lasting cultural change within a company.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is based on in-depth research that world-leading organizations are taking to build and maintain their culture, revealing the “seven pillars” of success.

Findings

In the author’s research into what comprises healthy culture in the world’s most successful businesses, the author identified seven crucial support pillars. Among these are leadership and management strategies that bolster employees mentally. These are what change people’s minds about how and why to perform well.

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This paper gives practical advice on how to cement behavioral change in a company and create a promising, healthy new company culture.

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Strategic HR Review, vol. 17 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1475-4398

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Publication date: 1 April 2002

Brooks C. Holtom and Michael J. Wilhelm

The Unexpected Offer is a relatively short case involving the valuation and sale of a Web site and its domain name. Because the issues involved are easily identified and…

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The Unexpected Offer is a relatively short case involving the valuation and sale of a Web site and its domain name. Because the issues involved are easily identified and apparently straightforward, it may be used at the start of a negotiation course. Specifically, it can be very effective in introducing a discussion of how to value or quantify a BATNA. While students in the marketing associate role tend to rely on budgets and other internal concerns to assess their BATNA, those in the entrepreneur role tend to focus on external factors or their own widely varying estimates. This variability frequently generates a stimulating discussion.

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International Journal of Conflict Management, vol. 13 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1044-4068

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Publication date: 13 March 2019

Francesca Sobande

Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Get Out (2017) highlights the issues regarding racism and Black identity that have seldom been the subject of horror film…

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Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed directorial debut Get Out (2017) highlights the issues regarding racism and Black identity that have seldom been the subject of horror film. More specifically, Get Out offers representations of Black masculinity that push against the stereotypical and reductive ways that Black men have often been depicted in horror cinema. The portrayal of Black men in Get Out takes shape in ways influenced by a range of relationships featured in the film. Amongst these is the dynamic between the leading character Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), in addition to Chris’s interactions with Rose’s mother Missy (Catherine Keener), as well as his best friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery). As such, scrutiny of Get Out yields insight into the construction of Black masculinity in horror film, including how on-screen inter- and intra-racial relations are implicated in this. The writing that follows focuses on how Get Out offers complex and scarcely featured representations of Black masculinity, and boyhood, in horror. As part of such discussion, there is analysis of the entanglements of on-screen gender and racial politics, which contribute to the nuances of depictions of Black masculinity in Get Out.

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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-898-7

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Publication date: 23 November 2018

William James Newell, Chris Ellegaard and Lars Esbjerg

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the choice of buying managers to share or limit the sharing of strategic information with their suppliers relates to the presence or…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the choice of buying managers to share or limit the sharing of strategic information with their suppliers relates to the presence or absence of goodwill and competence trust in the buyer–supplier relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

An interpretive single case study of a mid-sized retailer was used. In total, 17 semi-structured interviews examining information sharing events were conducted with buying managers, along with the analysis of company documents.

Findings

Goodwill and competence trust have a positive effect on strategic information sharing, yet this study reveals several tactics used by buying managers in the presence of competence trust only. With a lack of established trust, or earlier trust breaches, little to no information sharing occurs.

Research limitations/implications

This study featured cross-sectional data of a single case from the buyer’s perspective. This limits its generalizability, yet provides opportunities to test the findings through longitudinal studies, potentially gathering data from both buyers and suppliers.

Practical implications

Relating which types of information being shared for different forms of trust guides managers’ expectations on which type of trust they wish to build for each of their buyer–supplier relationships.

Originality/value

This study examines the trust and information sharing relationship in more detail, linking different types of trust to categories of strategic information. It also distinguishes between the different concepts of encouraging information sharing and deliberately limiting strategic information sharing.

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Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, vol. 34 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0885-8624

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Publication date: 1 December 2001

George Stylios

Discusses the 6th ITCRR, its breadth of textile and clothing research activity, plus the encouragement given to workers in this field and its related areas. States that, within…

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Discusses the 6th ITCRR, its breadth of textile and clothing research activity, plus the encouragement given to workers in this field and its related areas. States that, within the newer research areas under the microscope of the community involved, technical textiles focuses on new, ‘smart’ garments and the initiatives in this field in both the UK and the international community at large. Covers this subject at length.

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International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, vol. 13 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-6222

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Publication date: 1 January 1988

What is colour? The definition in dictionaries is as follows: A property whereby bodies have different appearances to the eye through surfact reflection or absorption of rays of…

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What is colour? The definition in dictionaries is as follows: A property whereby bodies have different appearances to the eye through surfact reflection or absorption of rays of light. As U. Oldbrich points out in his recent article on instrumental colour measurement, this is a fairly abstract way of looking at something as important and interesting as colour. He states that he introduces it merely to emphasise that for someone to perceive colour he requires three things: an object, a light source, in order to see the object, and a detector, which is normally the human eye and the brain. The question we have to ask is whether we view it with our eyes or with an extremely sophisticated measuring instrument?

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 17 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

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Publication date: 24 September 2015

Harry T. Dyer

Online Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Each SNS varies somewhat, with different forms of…

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Purpose

Online Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook and Twitter have become increasingly popular in the last decade. Each SNS varies somewhat, with different forms of expression, communication and customization. Different sites may have different priorities, methods of interacting, social features and definitions of what it means to be ‘social’ on their sites.

Methodology/approach

This paper reports on 2 months of exploratory observations and interviews with participants using two of the most popular SNSs; Facebook.com and Twitter.com. Paying attention to the modal nuances of the sites and their effect on social interaction and identity portrayal, the focus of analysis is upon how these two sites are interacted with as ‘stages’ for identity performances, and how the varying aspects of design and modality on these interactive sites can result in different multimodal identity performances and social interactions.

Findings

Data revealed that youth are adeptly able to negotiate the different modal options presented to them online, yet the temporal aspects presented by the design of the site, the differing definitions and priorities in the framing of identity presented by the SNSs, and the modal choices present across the two sites resulted in markedly differing presentations of identity to markedly differing audiences.

Originality/value

This research demonstrates the impact of modality and design on how we act and interact, and highlights that as Digital Sociologists and Researchers, we should be careful not to treat all Online SNSs the same, but pay attention to the plethora of nuances these sites offer as stages for identity performances.

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Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78560-265-8

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Publication date: 24 September 2021

Shradha Kabra, Sumanjit Dass and Sapna Popli

Reality television is a dynamic, profit-making platform that occupies prime-time slots on the television almost all over the world. Despite its immense popularity and influence…

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Purpose

Reality television is a dynamic, profit-making platform that occupies prime-time slots on the television almost all over the world. Despite its immense popularity and influence, it has received little attention in the extant literature and almost none in terms of its impact on celebrity repositioning. This study aims at examining the relationship between the film stars as brands and the impact of the platform of reality television in repositioning these celebrities in the Indian context.

Design/methodology/approach

Through extensive literature review and qualitative interviews, the paper expounds that reality television provides an opportunity to celebrities to successfully reposition themselves at crucial junctures in their career. The framework to study this repositioning has been adopted from the work of Chris Simms and Paul Trott (2007) who created it to study the brand repositioning of various consumer goods.

Findings

The literature establishes celebrities as brands. This study provides evidence that brand repositioning through reality television is possible for these celebrity brands. The symbolic and functional repositioning of these celebrities is presented through thematic content analysis.

Research limitations/implications

The study provides a useful framework to understand celebrity brand repositioning through reality TV. It can also be replicated to understand the repositioning of a wide variety of celebrities other than film-stars such as sportspersons, social media influencers and politicians.

Originality/value

The paper contributes to the need of expanding the corpus of Indian reality television and explains how Indian celebrities reposition themselves through reality television.

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Arts and the Market, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2056-4945

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Publication date: 24 November 2022

Renée Middlemost

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, in addition to his broad popular appeal. Since his transition from a successful pro-wrestling career to a…

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, in addition to his broad popular appeal. Since his transition from a successful pro-wrestling career to a full-time actor, his onscreen persona has transitioned from one dimensional action hero to more balanced star ‘type’ (Dyer, 1991), alternating action films with more family-friendly fare. Johnson's starring role in the Fast and the Furious franchise has been central to the growth of his career, yet as I will argue, this success is fuelled by his apparent rivalry with other action stars onscreen (Jason Statham) and offscreen (Vin Diesel). As I will show, these rivalries are rooted in the star ‘types’ formulated by Richard Dyer (1991), and this tension is central to the ongoing fan interest in the series.

Johnson's expanding profile has also led to the establishment of his own production company, Seven Bucks, and transition into television series Ballers (2015–2019) and Young Rock (2021–), both of which allowed him to explore autobiographical elements of his early life. As I will demonstrate via a case study of Hobbs and Shaw (2019), Johnson's success as a transnational action star and creative control allowed by Seven Bucks has allowed more explicit on-screen engagement with his Sāmoan heritage. The production history of Hobbs and Shaw illustrates both the successful co-existence of rivalry between action stars as a successful marketing strategy for action franchises, and the evolving action genre which allows a more personal exploration of race and masculine identity.

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Gender and Action Films
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80117-514-2

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Publication date: 1 April 2006

Chris Ellegaard

Aims to demonstrate that the task of influencing suppliers cannot be handled through the application of generic, one‐size‐fits‐all influence approaches with optimum outcomes and…

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Purpose

Aims to demonstrate that the task of influencing suppliers cannot be handled through the application of generic, one‐size‐fits‐all influence approaches with optimum outcomes and, further, to introduce analytical models and practices that can assist purchasers in differentiating their influence approaches.

Design/methodology/approach

The relations between a producer of frequency converters and four suppliers of electronic components were studied in a hermeneutic qualitative case‐based research design.

Findings

The paper shows how the case company influenced the four suppliers through the application of the same coercive power‐inspired supplier evaluation exercise. The purchasers designed the evaluation according to narrow and uniform assumptions – for instance, assuming that all suppliers would exhibit a power‐abiding rationality. These assumptions led the purchasers to design a standard evaluation scheme that did not take the specifics of each supplier relation into account. Hence, different outcomes were reached in each supplier relation, and in three out of four relations negative results were experienced.

Research limitations/implications

Future research should investigate other influence mechanisms and could involve more buyer‐supplier relations. Furthermore, a longitudinal study could be valuable, providing richer data on developments in influence approaches and outcomes.

Practical implications

The paper shows how purchasers need to design their influence approach based on supplier analysis rather than on narrow assumptions and introduces two tools/models to assist in this task.

Originality/value

As a qualitative contribution to the mainly quantitative literature on influence, the paper demonstrates the need for differentiated influence approaches. Network strategy, value potential and supplier actor rationality are introduced as contingency parameters, and analytical practices are introduced to assist purchasers design supplier‐specific influence approaches.

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Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, vol. 21 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0885-8624

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