Global World Flashcards
What did Hracs and Webster publish in 2020
Music streaming analysis
What did Hracs and Webster discover about music streaming in 2020. 3 things
- Platforms, facilitate and co-ordinate interactions between marketplace – eg brand playlists.
- platform competition remains understudied, platform parity eg: Jay-z tidal. Exclusivity drake views apple but can cause piracy
- Datafication - Lean back vs lean forward and curation (perception) leads to lock-ins.
What did Hracs and Webster publish about landscape branding in 2018. 3 key thing
- Brands use different landscapes to promote product via brand channels
- Spatial discontinuity – where item wasn’t made where the brand matches.
- Consumers become walking billboards for business – can be negative too.
What did Taylor Brydges; Brian J. Hracs (2018) focus their paper on (brands)
Landscape branding
What did Florida’s study in 2002 outline
Economic spread of talent
What are 3 key themes that Florida’s 2002 study outline regarding talent, workers
- talent is more attracted to diversity and low entry barriers for talent
- workers are more productive when they locate around others with high levels of human capital
- human-capital people have many employment options and change jobs relatively frequently, and thus they strongly favor locations that possess thick labor markets
What is Hracs and Brydges 2019 paper (locational choices of fashion) suggesting about locational choices? (buzz, drain, location, and cultural intermediaries)
‘new mobilities paradigm’.
- Local buzz countered with mobile working and trade fairs – only big companies. .
- brain drain risk due to personal factors -reduced by new local buzz.
- cultural intermediaries’ who may function as brokers, gatekeepers, co-producers, co-promoters help start ups
- smaller locations due to lack of support from large business
- virtual co-presence through technology, virtual mobility
What is Hras and Brydges 2019 paper about?
locational choices of fashion designers and those in the industry
What did Cooks 2004 paper wrote about
Following the life of a Papaya
What were some takeaways from Cooks 2004 Follow the thing: Papaya?
That there is a huge consumption of the papaya and many unknowns and risks. To the company, the people, and the economy which can cause issues.
What did Lapawsky and Mather suggest about waste in their 2011 paper?
nonlinear, multidirectional travels of things. There is no such thing as waste. IT is subjective.
Who wrote about e-waste in 2011
Lapawsky and Mather 2011
What were the findings from Cooks 2004 paper about Papayas
That there is a huge consumption of the papaya and many unknowns and risks. To the company, the people, and the economy which can cause issues.
who wrote a 2004 paper on papayas
Cook 2004
What are the 3 key points of Brydges 2021 paper about fashion
- decisions made at one stage of the
supply chain can have downstream implications for subsequent
stages. - Greenwashing.
- local, national, and supranational policies related to circularity can support the transition to more sustainable economies and help close loop of the take-make-waste model.
what was brydges 2021 paper about
fashion and the circular economy
according to maskell et al 2004 what were some positives of being in a cluster
- gain competitive advantage by being in cluster with many other firms and organizations.
- pipelines establishing knowledge-enhancing relations to actors outside the local cluster will then go to the buzz.
- number of related independent firms in a cluster can manage a larger number of pipelines than one single large firm alone.
What was Maskell et al 2004 paper about
local buzz and the pipelines, both strengths and weaknesses. more codified knowledge can be global.
Within Maskell et als 2004 paper, what 2 things were considered a weakness of the buzz/cluster
‘buzz-intensive’ cluster begin to suffer from information fatigue syndrome.
organisations may not be tuned in which limits effectiveness of the cluster
What do Dyer et al write bout in their 2009 paper? give 2 examples
The instability of work in the UK, and the impact that this has on migrant workers.
- non-standard labour contracts impacts
-Economic migrants from outside the expanded European Community, especially those who have no automatic right to remain and those without work permits, are exceptionally vulnerable.
What occurred post-WW2
a international moment: eg UN 1945, 1951 Treaty of Paris = made 1952 Coal and steel
What were 3 enlargements that took place in the EU
1985 Schengen Agreement (open borders and
free movement between signatory countries)
* 1993 Maastricht Treaty (establishes EU and
principle of ever closer union – economic and
political – next slide)
* 2002 Euro Area (Eurozone) comes into for
