Cultural Value Creation Research Articles

Examination of Projects Produced in the Metaverse as an Opportunity for Architecture

The study questions the role of the metaverse universe in the field of architecture. In this context, the article aims to determine this new field's potential, understand its boundaries and analyse what kind of projects have been produced in the architectural field to date. Descriptive analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study, and the analysis data was obtained from Archdaily's database, a popular architectural platform. All of the studies obtained from here are current, and the oldest project dates back to 2020. The evaluation of projects was evaluated according to the criteria of different space types (Hyper Reality, Abstracted Reality, Hybrid Cyberspace, Hyper Virtuality), smart city/building, creative-innovative design, social value creation, interaction-socialization, new spatial experiences, digital art, and cultural value creation. Among the projects analyzed, there are projects developed by architects and designed by video and game developers. As a result, in the metaverse universe, futuristic, free designs are developed, and historical and cultural structures are revitalized and passed on to future generations. Complex 3D visualizations can be easily produced in the metaverse instead of using various software. In the future, the metaverse is expected to radically change and transform the discipline of architecture in education, design, and practice.

Phygital approach to value co-creation in international museums

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is, through an exploratory analysis, to identify good practices implemented by international museums in the phygital context and their classification in terms of customer experiences, in order to identify innovative cultural value creation and co-creation practices.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopt a qualitative approach of multiple case studies. The analysis conducted formed the information base through which to proceed with the classification of phygital customer experiences through the extended reality technologies frameworkFindingsThe analysis conducted on the selected international museums shows that the phygital formula can take on different characteristics depending on the technologies used and the purpose to be achieved and can be a useful tool for the co-creation of cultural value.Originality/valueThe originality of this contribution lies in the comparative analysis proposed among the case studies to intercept best practices in the phygital field, in the classification of phygital experiences through a novel frame of reference and in the identification of prospects for improvement of an emerging phenomenon in the literature on cultural sector management.

Стандартизация музейной деятельности как фактор оптимального функционирования муниципальных музеев

The role of municipal museums in the development of the country’s museum industry is considered in the aspect of modern conditions of standardization, modernization, and optimization of their activities. Attention is paid to the issue of improving the qualifications of employees of these museums in museum and related areas of training. The regulatory nature of the model standard is analyzed. The main attention is paid to the types of activities of the municipal museum: accounting and storage, exposition and exhibition, scientific and educational, cultural and educational, scientific research to promote the museum and information activities, a detailed consideration is given. Statistical data and the role of the national project «Culture» in the promotion of municipal museums in the Russian Federation in the framework of modernization are summarized. Opportunities are being considered to participate in the creation of cultural values throughout the country through the introduction of a model standard and the creation of «model museums» aimed at increasing the level of accessibility of cultural goods.

TERMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PEDAGOGICAL ESSENCE OF THE MAIN CATEGORIES AND CONCEPTS WITHIN THE PROBLEMS OF YOUTH SPIRITUAL AND MORAL EDUCATION (ACCORDING TO THE HERITAGE OF G. VASHCHENKO)

On the basis of the analysis of the source base for the purpose of holistic study of the investigated problem, clarification and specification of the categorical and conceptual apparatus of the research, it is necessary to carry out an analysis of the main concepts of its terminological field, which dynamically and comprehensively reflect the ways of development of the system of spiritual and moral upbringing and education of Ukrainian youth in the pedagogical heritage of G. Vashchenko. In the context of the study, the concept of "spirituality" is defined as one of the scientific categories; therefore, we will begin the analysis of the terminological apparatus with an encyclopedic-dictionary interpretation of the category "spirituality" and related definitions. Justifying the importance of using the definition "spirituality" in relation to the legacy of G. Vashchenko, let us emphasize the need to clarify the term "spirit", which is the root of the concept of "spirituality" and reflects its initial essence.
 Summarizing the data of the terminological analysis of literary sources, it is important to emphasize that the categories "spirituality", "spirit" and "soul" are interpreted in the most general sense as:
 – a person's ability to personal, meaningful self-determination, self-creation and culture creation;
 – a property that provides an opportunity to complement individual existence with the world of moral, cultural, religious values and to play the role of a guiding principle for other abilities;
 - a set of mental phenomena that reveal the individual world of a person, its main features; ideals, beliefs, moral qualities, explain the individual's motivation towards ideal (knowing the world) and social (living for other’s needs);
 - the quality of a person, which is manifested in his ability to appreciate his place in the history of the people and to create good, beauty, bear the truth, and protect nature.
 The analysis of research on the content and application options of the definition of "spirituality" in the legacy of G. Vashchenko shows that the teacher considered it in inseparable unity with the concepts of "folk culture", "folk creativity", since these concepts are interrelated and interdependent constants, according to the scientist, play a major role in the education of young people. The conducted research allows us to state that the concept of "spirituality" is considered, firstly, as a person's ability for meaningful self-determination, self-creation and creation of cultural values; secondly, as a property that provides the possibility of filling the individual being with the world of moral, cultural, religious values; thirdly, as a set of mental phenomena that reveals the individual world of a person, its main features: beliefs, ideals, moral qualities. This gives reason to consider the category "spirituality" as a phenomenon and as a sign of the pedagogical process. "Morality" as a category that refers to customs, regulates human behavior in all spheres of social life and thus supports certain social norms, order in life, communication. A detailed analysis of the terminological-conceptual apparatus of the research made it possible to find out that the pedagogical essence of spiritual and moral values and norms in the legacy of G. Vashchenko are revealed through a specific sphere of definitions and concepts that outline the ways defined by the teacher for the formation of the spiritual and moral consciousness of young people and mastering its moral and ethical qualities on national and religious grounds.

Does Islam promote growth: evidence from Arab Muslim countries and non-Arab Muslim countries

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the impact of Islam, as a set of moral and cultural values, on economic growth and development for 17 Muslim countries over the period 1990–2019.Design/methodology/approachTo identify the relationship between Islam and economic growth, the authors have proceeded with an empirical panel data analysis using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. The study is conducted initially on a sample of 17 Muslim countries and then on 2 sub-samples composed of 12 Arab Muslim countries and 5 non-Arab Muslim countries.FindingsThe empirical analysis showed a significant negative relationship between Islam and economic growth for the Arab-Muslim countries. While for the non-Arab Muslim countries, the relationship remains positive. Following the introduction of the interactive social variables (unemployment and illiteracy), the authors show that increasing unemployment exacerbates the negative effect of Islam on growth. While the effect of illiteracy remains statistically insignificant. However, for non-Arab Muslim countries, the positive effect of Islam on growth is all the greater as these countries have large social contemplation. However, the introduction of the interactive cultural variables (uncertainty avoidance index and long run orientation), show that the positive effect of Islam on growth is all the more important as the non-Arab Muslim countries have a wider cultural value system. While for the total sample and the sub-sample of Arab-Muslim countries, the cultural dimension does not affect the relationship between Islam and economic growth.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough there are more religions, the authors have considered only Islam as its relationship with economic, social and cultural development and its influence on the entrepreneurial culture is problematic. Maybe a comparative study between different religions offers us a more convincing result.Practical implicationsSocial conditions, cultural heritage and race (Arab or non-Arab) play an important role in determining the relationship between Islam and economic development.Social implicationsThe effect of Islam remains dependent on Islamic thought and its long-term orientation, uncertainty avoidance and the level of social value creation in the countries where it is practiced.Originality/valueOn the theoretical and on the empirical level, the analysis of the relationship between Islam and development is rarely addressed in the relevant literature because of its sociologically sensitive aspect. Islam would have a positive effect on growth when it evolves in countries that have built their growth on an extroverted and developed economic model and an adequate social and cultural value creation system. However, unemployment, illiteracy, cultural patrimony and race of the Muslim population (Arab or non-Arab) plays, in the long run, a very important role in determining the relationship between Islam and economic growth.

A Study on Cultural Value Creation in Animal Festivals

A Study on Cultural Value Creation in Animal Festivals

The essence and specifics of modern social and cultural activities in Karakalpakstan

Socio-cultural activity as a process of active development, dissemination and creation of cultural values is ultimately focused on the formation of the cultural environment of human life, the elaboration of mechanisms for its socialization, enculturation and self-realization, the creation of methodological directions for the development of spiritual interests and requirements of people in order to realize the essential forces and capabilities of each person.

Cultural and creative entrepreneurship: towards a paradigmatic proposal

Cultural and creative entrepreneurship (CCE) research has significantly developed but is still in search of a homogenous theoretical framework. We question here the structuration of CCE research and the emergence of paradigmatic views. Drawing on the analysis of CCE literature development and on the concepts of paradigm and field of research applied to entrepreneurship (Dana et al., 2008; Verstraete and Fayolle, 2005), we argue that CCE is developing as a field of research per se. We observe a broadening of ontological postures, both anchored in entrepreneurship research (re-phenomenology, theoretical grounds, and topics) and contextualised. We also observe a double topical shift: centring on CCE per se (implications for the traditional economy becoming secondary), and on the sustainability tension. This calls in our view for a renewed research agenda that should address cultural value creation, sustainability, the creation/sustainability tension, and the fundamental individual-collective-societal triptych.

Современные интеллектуальные журналы как явление культуры и цивилизации

The relevance of the research is connected with the leading directions of the development of modern journalistic science, which prioritizes studying the transformation of traditional media under the influence of the realities of the information society and modern civilization. The processes of penetration of the civilization factor into the media sphere are particularly clearly seen in the segment of magazine publications, which is connected with the globalization of the magazine market and the scale of its influence on the audience. Among the main vectors of modern magazine sactivities are the creation of cultural values and the creation of civilization values. If an intellectual magazine creates cultural values, broadcasting information at a qualitative level and focusing on a high level of audience training, the “new intellectual magazine” as an interdisciplinary publication creates the values of civilization and forms the lifestyle of the audience. The study of modern intellectual publications as translators of cultural values and values of civilization requires studying the modern intellectual magazine as a type of publication, identifying its main features, substantiating the differentiation of intellectual magazines into two subgroups – the classic intellectual magazine (for example, “Inviolable Reserve: Politics and Culture Debate”, “New Literary Review”) and a new intellectual magazine (for example, “Snob” and “Esquire”). The methodological basis of this work is based on a systems approach and a comparative typological method. In particular, the systems approach was used to identify evidence of an intellectual magazine as a type of publication. The comparative typological method was used to determine the differentiating measure of the subgroups of the intellectual magazine. The key factor in the emergence of a new intellectual magazine was the formation of a young generation of intellectuals with discrete, interactive thinking, a special value system. The magazines broadcast a model of modern civilization with its ideas and meanings, which proves the inclusion of this media phenomenon in civilizational communication processes.

What Facilitates Cultural Entrepreneurship? – A Study of Indian Cultural Entrepreneurs

AbstractThe importance of a ‘cultural industry’ to a national economy and the development of a “creative society” has grown increasingly. However, research on cultural entrepreneurship is in its early stages and is yet to catch the attention of mainstream entrepreneurship and creativity scholars. In this article the objective is to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the key aspects that cultural entrepreneurs find facilitating their entrepreneurship. Studying Indian cultural entrepreneurs and applying a qualitative method, this paper identifies seven such aspects: cultural value creation, intrinsic motivation and external recognition, minimized risk, contextual understanding, innovation and learning, perseverance and ethical pursuit of cultural activity, and social networks.

Интеллектуальный потенциал населения: теоретико-методологические основы исследования

The article considers the theoretical and methodological framework for the research into the population's intellectual potential. The presented materials show that this category is the subject of interdisciplinary studies, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, pedagogics, economics. One of the important conclusions drawn from the analysis of the essence of intellectual potential is the conclusion that the actual level of intelligence is the result of its development. It means that certain efforts on the part of such social institutions like family, education, government, promote not only the formation of smart people, but also the implementation of their potential intellectual capabilities in the production, creation of cultural values, society management, education, etc. when using this approach, the intellect ceases to be just a research object of related disciplines, but it acquires social dimension and becomes a socio-economic category. The basic theories, concepts and approaches, used in its study, were analyzed. The theory of human capital was given a most thorough consideration, because, according to this theory, the income of a person is earned by knowledge, abilities and skills, i.e. the essence of intellectual properties of an individual. The article provides the author's definition of the intellectual potential of the population, which brings to the fore the following elements necessary for the understanding of this category: relation to socio- economic development, factors in the formation of the characteristic, including the need for training (reproduction) of intelligent people, the psychological aspect (abilities), the carriers of intellectual potential are not ignored, because it is an attribute of the population. The article identifies methodological approaches to the estimation of the population's intellectual potential, describes the applied procedures and research methods. The authors propose methodological approaches to the monitoring of the population's intellectual potential as an indicator of innovation development of the society and the efficiency of public administration.

Conservation or economization? Industrial heritage conservation in Incheon, Korea

Industrial heritage conservation advocates cultural, historical and economic significance of obsolete spaces and transforms them into viable places. Thus, it is often adopted in urban regeneration projects, which seek historic, esthetic and economic elevation of degenerated areas. Its policy domain has become multi-disciplinary. In this respect, to enrich a multi-disciplinary dialogue on conservation, this paper examines how a cultural policy project in Incheon, Korea, has dealt with industrial heritage. Specifically, it examines first, the processes through old spaces were rediscovered and institutionalized as heritage sites. Second, it investigates how the project has endeavored to keep balance between achieving cultural valorization and economic viability of obsolete spaces. The paper emphasizes that industrial heritage conservation involves not only adaptive re-use but also the creation of cultural values of obsolete spaces. The latter, especially, is a prerequisite to establishing and retaining heritage values and sites. If cultural initiatives that aim to create cultural values are operated as a tool for redevelopment and financial revenue-making, they might not play their best role in conservation. The paper concludes that conceptual consistency and shared values should guide public participation and conservation objectives and methods.

Sustainability and Business in a Complex World

ABSTRACTSustainability is a topic of growing importance today in all aspects of organizational life. Businesses and managers are increasingly considering ways to incorporate a balance among economic, ecological, social, and cultural value creation into their business models. At the same time, the world is becoming exponentially more complex. Indeed, complexity theory and thinking are now apparent in academic and practice accounts of sustainability in business, as scholars and practitioners recognize the limitations of traditional reductionist approaches to systemic problems. To date, however, a more theoretical framing of sustainability lags behind accumulating practical evidence. The purpose of this article is to address this gap by developing a complexity‐based framework for understanding and managing sustainability in complex adaptive systems. We aim for simplicity, wholeness, and practicality in our approach, taking a qualitative rather than quantitative perspective on complex systems. Using several contemporary case examples, the article describes the important qualities of complex systems and develops them into a working framework that integrates principles and parameters of sustainability. In doing so, we create an approach to sustainability issues and dilemmas called “sustainability thinking.” The article concludes with more generalized sustainability action strategies for managers and recommendations for future researchers.

How value is culturally co-constructed over time: an interpretive framework for mythical-level analysis

Culturally attuned marketing and consumer research theories suggest that commercial companies and marketplace cultures co-create value over time through co-constructing brand meanings. Existing research suggests that commercial retro marketers and historic brand marketplace cultures play disparate value creating roles. Despite this, their efforts seem to serve the same end; namely, sustaining a branded experience over time. In response to this anomaly, this paper offers a mythical-level framework for philosophically and empirically interpreting this phenomenon. It contends that survivalue creation and revivalue creation are two strategically discrete, ideologically antithetical, yet complementary cultural value creation processes which sustain brand experiences over time. Survivalue creation defines the cultural conservation process which strategically preserves historic brand experiences. Revivalue creation defines the cultural reproductive process which strategically revives historic brand experiences. Both strands of value creation form the essence of a brand's cultural DNA; the code which enables its functioning, development and reproduction over time.

‘The Future is an Open Future.’ Cultural Studies at the End of the ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Beginning of the ‘Chinese Century.’

A Short History of Cultural Studies (Hartley 2003) made the claim that cultural studies is a ‘philosophy of plenty’; a way of understanding the creation of cultural values among large populations, in times of economic growth, democratisation and consumerism. However these same times – the ‘long twentieth century’ (Arrighi 1994; Brewer 2004) – were marked by unprecedented social and ideological upheaval, with imperialism, total war, totalitarianism, and ‘mutually assured destruction’ (Cold War) as the dark side of progressive secular scientific modernity. Over that long century from the 1880s, world economic and political leadership shifted from European hegemony and British free-trade imperialism to US entrepreneurial-managerial capitalism. The end of the ‘long’ century was marked by further change, often gathered under the term ‘globalisation.’ For their part, the human, political and economic sciences underwent what has been called the ‘cultural turn,’ associated with post-industrial or network society, the ‘new’ or knowledge economy, postmodernism … and cultural studies.

Implementing a Dynamic Leadership Program: A Moral Construct for Adding Cultural Value

The dynamic leader must have a basic understanding of their organization's affirmative moral obligation and operate from a humanistic paradigmatic perspective. Every organization has a positive moral obligation to do good for its stakeholders and not harm them in any way. Based upon this premise, it can be argued that the corporation has a moral obligation to do good for its employees who are non-owner stakeholder. Hence, the dynamic leader must place significant emphasis on moral and ethical factors in order to enhance cultural values. The cultural value creation has the potential to produce positive outcomes for all organizational stakeholders including employees, shareholders, suppliers, customers, communities, and governments. This paper will present a concise model for implementing a paradigm shifting model that focuses on enhancing and developing cultural values.

“They Rose and Fell Together”: African American Educators and Community Leadership, 1795-1954

The prominence of politicians as the leading spokespersons for the African American community in the United States is a relatively recent historical occurrence. Before the civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, which brought voting rights to previously disenfranchised Americans, the number of African Americans in elective office was negligible. Indeed, from the 18th century through the 1950s, other African American professionals, especially ministers, journalists, lawyers, and educators, served as the leading spokespersons for the social, political, and economic interests of African Americans in the United States. Together this group of educated professional elites served as an intelligentsia for the African American population. They provided cultural meanings, values, ideals, and objectives drawn both from their extensive training and from the social experiences of the masses and elites of African descent in this society (Cavanaugh, 1983; Franklin, 1984; Marable, 1985; Wilson, 1980). While average Blacks, north and south, were actively involved in the creation of cultural values, goals, and practices based on their African background and their experiences in American society, the educated professionals articulated these values and objectives in speeches, sermons, essays, editorials, magazines, and books that were distributed to the public at large. These cultural spokespersons or intellectuals not only presented their opinions about the most pressing issues facing the African American population, but they also debated these issues in public forums. Often they organized and led social and political movements to obtain specific cultural objectives. From abolitionism to the recent civil rights movement, African American ministers, journalists, lawyers, business owners, educators, and other professionals provided the leadership for African American communities at the local and national levels.1