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Status-Aspirational Pricing: The \Chivas Regal\ Strategy in U.S. Higher Education, 2006–2012
This paper examines the effect of status loss on organizations' price-setting behavior. We predict, counter to current status theory and aligned with performance feedback theory, that a status decline prompts certain organizations to charge higher prices and that there are two kinds of organizations most prone to make such price increases: those with broad appeal across disconnected types of customers and those whose most strategically similar rivals have charged high prices previously. Using panel data from U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of private colleges and universities from 2005 to 2012, we model the effect of drops in rank that take a school below an aspiration level. We find that schools set tuition higher after a sharp decline in rank, particularly those that appeal widely to college applicants and whose rivals are relatively more expensive. This study presents a dynamic conception of status that differs from the prevailing view of status as a stable asset that yields concrete benefits. In contrast to past work that has assumed that organizations passively experience negative effects when their status falls, our results show that organizations actively respond to status loss. Status is a performancerelated goal for such producers, who may increase prices as they work to recover lost ground after a status decline.
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Demand driven performance : using smart metrics
\"Learn how to implement demand driven metrics for vast improvement in measuring performance.Demand Driven Performance details why the outdated forms of measurement are inappropriate for current circumstances and reveals an elegant set of global and local metrics to fit today's demand driven world. The book shows how to minimize the organizational and supply chain conflicts that impede flow, and eventually, corporate success.Metrics are used to create a benchmark for measuring improvement and to identify and focus on those improvements that are most needed, and that have the highest ROI. However, the world has fundamentally changed in terms of delivering value and driving strong financial performance and growth. The continued use of outdated metrics is driving companies in the wrong direction giving them false signals, putting their personnel into conflict at all levels of the organization, and also wreaking havoc in the supply chain. This book offers solutions to remedy these issues. Defines a new demand driven approach for measuring total organizational performance and the corresponding local metrics that integrate with those measures Advocates a systems approach to measuring improvement, and shows how conventional metrics are no longer appropriate Focuses on reliability, stability, speed/velocity, strategic contribution, local operating expense, and local improvement waste A case study demonstrates the processes in the book and provides you with the technology and tools needed to achieve a demand driven system \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Situated Knowing
Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies’ ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline.
This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in the sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge.
Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.
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Inside arabic music : Arabic maqam performance and theory in the 20th century Middle East
Over its fifteen-century history, Arabic music has had a global resonance that followed the Islamic empire itself, across Europe to the west and into India to the east. By the mid-20th century, the music spread further through radio and musical cinema, and the West's fascination with Raqs Sharqi - or \"bellydance.\" Yet Arabic music remains widely misunderstood, in part because of the maqam - the music's unique and complex system of melodic modes. From deep inside the tradition, renowned performers Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays guide readers through maqam, and introduce the instruments, artists, rhythms, and forms of Arabic music. Their discussion of maqam and improvisation taps into linguistics, network theory, cognition, and music analysis to explore the relationships among music, culture, and human community. Drawing theory directly from practice, Inside Arabic music de-mystifies the music, and presents a comprehensive guide for beginner and expert alike.--Back cover.
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The Study of Meaning and the Meaning of Life
In one form or another, the phenomena associated with ‘meaning transfer’ become central issues in a lot of recent work on semantics. This study is our contribution towards clarifying the expression ‘The Meaning of Life’ in the proceedings of the 2010 Literary Society of Nigeria (LSN) Annual Conference. Our modus operandi for that set objective is to elucidate the formulation the meaning of life in the conference’s theme and sub-themes, by examining incisively the notion of meaning within the said formulation. Our interest in meaning is rooted in semantics, an academic discipline universally defined as ‘the study of meaning’. Our intellectual tools for the analysis are (i) the symbolist theory of meaning, attributable to Ogen & Richards (1923), as well as to Lyons (1981&1995); (ii) the performative theory of meaning in Uwajeh (1996b, 1996c, 2002 & 2010); and (iii) the subjective well-being theory of meaning, in Diener, Lucas & Oishi (2002). The overall thrust of our argumentation shows up through our confronting the meaning in the 2010 LSN Annual conference’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ with the meaning in ‘The Study of Meaning’ of semantics.
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De Aquí y De Allá: Fluid, Boundless, and Excessive Género
This essay explores the reality of genre and gender as fluid, boundless, and excessive, especially in Latinx, hemispheric, and feminist contexts. The author continues the necessary problematizing of simplistic notions of genre and also explores women participating in two expressive forms that are coded as masculine, as evidence of the fluidity of gender. Ultimately, the fluidity, boundlessness, and excessiveness of género in a pan-Latinx context is related to the fluidity of subjectivities due to a transcultural self, a self that welcomes mestizaje, not confined by unyielding boundaries. Género should be a system of classification that highlights the borrowing de aquí y de allá (from here and from there).
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Rzetelność jako podstawa/dyrektywa
Letter to the editors regarding Małgorzata Sugiera's article published in Pamiętnik Teatralny 71, z. 4 (2022).
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W drodze do Negantropocenu: Splątania ciał i technologii w spekulatywnych sztukach performatywnych
Wstęp do bloku tematycznego W drodze do Negantropocenu.
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