Market Logic Research Articles

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Funeral homes provide an essential service in modern societies, yet their role as commercial actors engaging with the deceased has also been contested. This article surveys the development of funeral markets in Germany since the late nineteenth century, asking about the changing interplay of market logics and socio-cultural norms. It reveals the early development of a vibrant commercial market for funerals already prior to World War I. Looking at strictures on advertising and competition, it then highlights the increasing moralization of the funeral market beginning in the interwar period. Analysing municipal efforts to socialize funeral services, finally, it discusses efforts to de-commodify burial services and control funeral costs into the postwar period.

The Practice of Food Justice: How Food Hubs Negotiate Race and Place in the Eastern United States

AbstractDespite aspirations toward more equitable and sustainable food systems, alternative food movements have been critiqued for reproducing the inequalities of the agrifood system they contest. This article examines the challenges a group of justice‐oriented food hubs face in integrating racial justice into their work. We ask whether the financial pressures of enacting alternative approaches to food hub work within market logics can squeeze out racial justice goals. We find that dominant framings of alternative food movements diminish Black activism. We argue that justice‐oriented food hubs can get caught in a “justice trap” similar to the “local trap”—the tendency to assume that the local scale is inherently desirable and leads to a socially just food system. The notion of a justice trap signals the assumption that what constitutes justice in the food system is self‐evident and that different forms of justice are automatically subsumed within the general concept of “food justice.” Our analysis indicates that the justice trap arises from an inability to articulate the racial justice implications of the everyday realities of running organizations within the market logics that dominate even alternative food movements.

Introduction: Academic Capitalism and the Crisis of the Professoriate

In history, as in all disciplines, scholarship has over the past several decades been shaped increasingly by the emergence of what has been called "academic capitalism," which has reshaped universities in accordance with market logic and market priorities. This order is characterized most vividly by the emergence of a system of stark and increasing inequality between a relatively privileged minority of institutions and professors, themselves internally differentiated and besieged, and a growing mass that lacks the security and resources to engage in scholarship. The advent of academic capitalism and the consequent bifurcation and stratification of the professoriate and the deterioration of its power and conditions of work inevitably have a profound impact on who enters the profession, on who will teach and write history and, ultimately, on what and whose histories will be studied. For the first time in many decades historians may need to justify to both our students and the broader public not only our right and responsibility to determine what constitutes historical knowledge but also the very existence of our discipline as something other than the inculcation of patriotic and cultural values. In addItion, the logic of academic capitalism, with its expanding segmentation of faculty work and its stress on measuring, assessment, and quantification, has pushed everyone to be more competitive and focused on productivity. These developments pose a major threat not only to the academic freedom of individual scholars but to scholarship itself.

Een narratieve analyse van maatwerk in de Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning 2015. Conflicterende betekenissen van maatwerk

In this article we study the policy ideal of providing personalized public services which has gained considerable ground in recent years: both in the Netherlands and abroad.Personalization may be seen as an example of an ‘empty signifier’ (Laclau 1985): it is subject to diverse interpretations without making the distinctions explicit. As such, several policy objectives and interests can be covered without disagreeing about its overarching importance. It is therefore important to identify the different meanings given to personalization and determine the extent to which these can be reconciled. The case at hand is the Social Support Act (SSA) in the Netherlands which entails the open norm to provide tailored support. Policymakers presented this act as a remedy for numerous social problems, such as the fragmented provision of care and increased regulatory pressure.By conducting a narrative policy analysis of personalization in policy discourse, we identified four different narratives of personalization: personalization as market logic of matching supply and demand; personalization as professional discretionary room, personalization as the emphasizing of self-reliance and problem-solving abilities of the clients themselves and those around him, and lastly, personalization as the coordination of integrated care.These different meanings in policy discourse are not easily harmonized in daily practices. Based on recent empirical research on the existing bottlenecks in executing the SSA, we were able to identify key tensions between different narratives of personalization. For example, focusing primarily on activating one’s own problem-solving capacities is at the expense of professional room to adjust care to what the client needs. Integrated care has also lost its meaning due to the emphasis on empowerment and is mainly instrumental in obtaining a complete picture of the citizen and his network. These tensions create dilemmas for professionals, citizens and local policymakers. Moreover, in our case personalization provided the legitimacy for extensive public service reform in the changing welfare state, while political hang-ups, such as the associated cuts, could be circumvented. It is therefore of great importance that national policymakers and the legislator reflect on the complexities of personalization as a policy ideal and take into account the tensions between different meanings of personalization in practice.

Mission, money, and membership: An institutional perspective on teacher preparation at new graduate schools of education

This article explores how teacher education operates within market-organized environments. We argue that the forces of the market have acted against institutional isomorphism in teacher education, as evidenced by the emergence of new graduate schools of education (nGSEs), which are a new population of teacher preparation providers. We suggest that nGSEs are animated by logics based on highly-specialized missions, alternative funding models, and membership in powerful networks that set this population apart from others within the organizational field of teacher education. We also argue that there is remarkable variation and diversification among nGSEs, which has resulted in highly specialized teacher preparation niches that distinguish each nGSE from other members within the same population through mission-specific branding, publicity, and funding, which in turn prompts increased demand for specialized programs. Finally, we suggest that although nGSEs have been shaped in many ways by the forces of the market, most of them are not completely dominated by market logics. Rather, most combine elements of the logic of markets with elements of other powerful logics, forming hybrids that create tensions, some of which are highly productive, prompting rapid organizational evolution, including name changes, reorganizations, and new partnerships.

APPLICATION OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IN ELECTRICITY MARKET SIMULATORS

Since the liberalization and deregulation of the electricity markets throughout the world are in full swing, the number of market participants, as well as their diversity, is sharply increasing. In the traditional monopolistic market model, all the processes that occur in a power system have been supervised by vertically integrated companies. Since market logic is changing from that oriented toward minimizing generation costs for electrical energy to the trend of maximizing profit, the risk is being distributed among all the market participants uniformly and is no longer entirely borne by the final consumers. Under such uncertain conditions, in which the prices of electrical energy change from hour to hour, each market participant wants a reliable tool to facilitate optimal and quality decisions and strategic performance.

Community participation in electricity markets: The impact of market organisation

Energy communities are considered important drivers of the energy transition. While they have mainly focused on collective energy generation, they are increasingly getting involved in the provision and trading of energy and in flexibility services. This change of focus creates opportunities to participate in electricity markets but proves to be challenging because of the current electricity markets serving incumbency. In this study, we conduct an in-depth analysis of how broader market organisation impacts participation of energy communities in electricity markets. Drawing from transition studies and economic market literature, we develop a framework for analysing market organisation. Based on a literature review, observations and semi-structured interviews with communities and market actors, we conclude that, as a result of conflicting community and market logic, communities often adjust their business models to participate in the markets, which could jeopardize their potential to contribute to radical system change.

A customer experience lens for higher education in India using journey mapping and experience quality

ABSTRACT Higher education has witnessed unprecedented changes in the last two decades – a highly competitive global market, varying nature of work, industry expectations, learning preferences, advancement in technology, and to top it all a pandemic. To sustain and remain competitive Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) have shown an increased interest in sophisticated marketing practices, a heightened focus on building brands, creating brand experiences, and perfecting service quality. Around the same time period, services marketing as a field advanced with the works of Vargo and Lusch (2004, “Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing.” Journal of Marketing 68 (1): 1–17) on service-dominant-logic, and Verhoef et al (2009, Customer Experience Creation: Determinants, Dynamics and Management Strategies.” Journal of Retailing 85 (1): 31–41) on customer experience (CX) catapulting the field into directions of value co-creation, experience, and excellence. There have been, however very limited attempts to view HEIs from a service or experience lens. From a research perspective, this gap can be attributed to silos in research and deficient cross-functional literature. Service research views services either specific to a business sector (banking, retail, hospitality, etc.) or generically, while education literature tends to focus on the curriculum, teaching, and learning aspects of higher education ignoring the business, service, and experience aspects. Institutions also continue to debate about students as customers, or have a narrow focus on programs and deliverables and remain agnostic about the end-to-end experience. This work attempts to provide insights to business schools using frameworks and methods applied in services and customer experience research, treating business education as a complex service and participants in executive education as co-creators of value.

Determination against all odds? A story from Waste4Change

Learning outcomes This case aims to help students achieve the following learning objectives: ■ to apply the Emergence of Social Enterprise in Europe (Emergence des Enterprises Sociales en Europe – EMES) Network definitional framework to the case, and in doing so, have a useful framework to define social enterprises in emerging markets; ■ to identify the factors that can play important role in making strategic decisions in social enterprises; ■ to evaluate the sustainability of a social enterprise; and ■ to address the unique funding and financial challenges faced by social enterprises. Case overview/synopsis This case study discusses the dilemmas related to business expansion faced by Waste4Change (W4C), a waste management organization based in Bekasi, Jakarta, Indonesia. W4C was founded in 2014 by a group of young men who shared the idealism of changing the world by doing the right things. This principally involved protecting the environment and educating communities while maintaining economic profitability. However, idealism can sometimes create dilemmas within decision-making as an organization attempts to prevent market logic from dictating its direction. This case examines two different types of decision: the problem of securing a waste management contract when a permit had not been granted by the local government; and the problem of selecting the appropriate funding sources to enable the organization to grow. The first decision occurred in the context of a dilemma in 2017 when W4C expanded their waste management services to several regions in Indonesia but without having succeeded in securing a permit from the local government to provide such services. Attempts to provide such services without a formal legal permit would have been considered a violation of the law, even though the clients needed them (be it residents or companies) and the nature of the service in question had a positive connotation (i.e. maintaining the cleanliness of the city through waste management).The second decision concerned W4C’s plan to go public around 10 years from now. The CEO, Mohamad Bijaksana Junerosano, also known as Sano, has been considering this option since 2020 in a bid to grow the social enterprise. W4C differed from other startups; however, in the sense that while many startups will approach a plan to go public as an exit strategy, Sano wanted to preserve the idealism that had been a cornerstone of the enterprise since its inception. In other words, for W4C, going public was not just a means to an end. Complexity academic level Undergraduate as well as graduate courses that focus on sustainability, accounting, financing and strategy. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 1: Accounting and Finance.

TÜRKİYE-İRAN GÖÇ SİSTEMİ: SÜREKLİLİK VE DEĞİŞİMLER

Amaç: Son yıllarda Türkiye’ye dair göç çalışmalarında ciddi bir artış gözlense de Türkiye-İran göç koridoruna dair araştırmalar sınırlı sayıdadır. Bu makalede Türkiye-İran Göç sisteminde son dönemde yaşanan gelişmeler incelenecektir. Bu bağlamda tartışılacak üç kategori: yıllardır süregelen uluslararası korumaya tabi kişiler; sayıları gittikçe artan uluslararası öğrenciler ve yatırım yoluyla vatandaşlık hareketliliklerini kapsamaktadır.Yöntem: Türkiye-İran göç koridorunda son yıllarda artış gösteren öğrenci hareketliliği ve konut alımı ile aynı süreçte Türkiye’ye gelerek sığınma başvurusunda bulunan İranlı bireylerin sayısında ciddi azalma olmuştur. Tarihsel süreçte bu değişimi iz sürme yöntemiyle sunan çalışma bu noktada verilerin ne ifade ettiğini göstermek adına TÜİK, YÖK ve GİB’den yararlanmaktadır. Azalan ve artan trendi anlamak adına ise makro politikalardaki değişiklikleri analiz ederek, makro değişimlerin yeni olan etkisini ortaya çıkarmaktadır.Bulgular: 1980’lerin başından itibaren İranlı bireylerin sığınma temelli Türkiye’ye olan hareketliliğiyle sınırlı olan Türkiye-İran göç koridorunda 2011 sonrası süreçte önemli bir dönüşüm yaşanmıştır. Özellikle 2011 sonrası dönemde İranlı öğrenciler ile İranlı ailelerin Türkiye’de konut edinimi yoluyla göçü her yıl sürekli olarak artış göstermektedir. Bu iki kategorinin varlığı ilk olarak Türkiye ve İran arasındaki göçü bir göç sistemine dönüştüğünün göstergesidir. Daha da önemlisi çalışma, bu iki düzenli göç kategorisinin varlığı Türkiye’nin göç politikalarının neoliberalleşmesiyle ilgili olduğunu tartışmaktadır.Özgünlük: Türkiye’ye olan İranlı bireylerin hareketliliği temel olarak İranlı sığınmacı ve mülteciler ile onların üçüncü ülkelere yerleştirilmesi üzerinden tartışılmıştır. Son dönemlerde Türkiye’de artan sayıdaki İranlı yabancı lisans öğrencisi ve konut satın alan İranlı bireyler akademik olarak yazında irdelenmemiştir. Çalışmanın özgün tarafı bu iki kategorileri makro politikalardaki değişikler ile ilişkilendirmesi, Türkiye-İran arasındaki hareketliliğin bir göç sistemine dönüşmesini göstermesi ve Türkiye göç yönetiminin giderek piyasa mantığına uygun politika tercihleriyle neoliberalleşmesini göstermektir.

Investigation and Research on Consumer Psychology of Blind Box Consumers

Blind box is a kind of exquisite hand-made box without any style reminder. In recent years, the blind box market has been opened, all kinds of blind boxes have entered the China market, and blind box fever has become a phenomenon. Behind blind box consumption lies the core of emotional consumption, in which selling entertainment replaces selling goods, and emotional consumption surpasses material consumption; Youth resort to consumer goods, pursue a kind of life experience and subjective well-being, and endow individual existence with more meanings such as self-identity, satisfaction, belonging and accomplishment. However, when the explosion always retreats, the popular blind box will inevitably fall into an embarrassing situation. Based on this, this paper analyzes the psychological mechanism of blind box consumers in POP MART from the angle of Internet communication and consumer psychology, and interprets the formation and development trend of blind box fever. At the same time, the psychological mechanism and market logic of blind box consumers are analyzed from the perspective of consumption psychology and investment psychology. It can provide some thoughts for the future marketing strategy of Chaowan and the operation of related derivatives.

Dead Animal Fethicistic Aesthetic Interpretation In Sculpture

Commodity dimensions in art include exchange value, commercial value, valorization, commodity fetishism, market logic. Reading art through the commodity dimension is an attempt to reveal the economic value contained in the work of art. This value is not only contained in works of art, but also has a deterministic power to build and organize art. art that is part of a commodity—resulting in an aesthetic category, called “commodity aesthetics”. This is the kind of aesthetic, which builds attraction through the workings of the "immediate effect" and provokes an immediate reaction, such as cuteness, fascination or eroticism. Art and science actually have the same things are mutually sustainable, cannot be separated. From the selection of materials, to manufacturing techniques, to the curation stage, it's all a collaboration of art and science. Leonardo da Vinci's realist works are also a merger of fine art and human anatomy—biology. It is from da Vinci's works that the author is compelled to create creation that are related to the biological sciences. It is also an innovation, although not the first in the world, in the arts in Indonesia, with the hope of breaking the arts that always maintain the quo status

Continuing education as value creation

The continuing education sector explicitly regards itself as serving the goals of lifelong learning. In fact, however, it is oriented towards the market and measures its success according to the sales of its products. The article analyses this market orientation from the perspectives of educational sociology and discourse theory and illustrates its consequences using examples from the Swiss continuing education market. The author develops an alternative approach whereby continuing education is measured according to the value it creates for individuals and society. Here, a connection is made with economic value creation theory, enhanced by sociological dimensions of the recognition and valorisation of education. This enhanced value creation concept shows how continuing education generates values, where these values are recognised, in what contexts they are valorised and what players and discourses are involved. The author also outlines a procedure for value creation analysis and, using two continuing education programmes as examples, illustrates the findings that value creation analysis can generate. On this basis, the author calls for a reorientation of continuing education that transcends the limitations of market logic.

A supply chain management framework for services

AbstractWhile services represent the largest sector of the global economy, 86.8% in the United States, most supply chain management (SCM) research is focused on product flows. Executives in manufacturing firms have benefited from frameworks created to implement SCM processes, but this is not the case for their counterparts in service companies. The two most cited SCM frameworks for services have methodological and conceptual deficiencies. Drawing upon the service‐dominant logic of marketing and using an empirical research approach, we developed supply chain structure maps for nine service firms. Our findings indicate that the supply chain structure maps of service companies are comparable to those in the product‐based literature, which supports the service‐dominant logic. Then, we identified the six key processes that constitute a framework to manage service supply chains. The customer relationship management and the supplier relationship management processes form the critical links in the supply chain, and the other four processes are coordinated through this linkage. The SCM framework for services provides direction for executives in service firms who need to increase cross‐functional integration within their firms and with other members of the supply chain. For academics, 12 avenues for future research are identified.

Designing radical transitions: a plea for a new governance culture to empower deep transformative change

This explorative paper introduces the idea of radical transitions as a necessary starting point for policy and governance. The urgency to achieve transformative change facing climate change and biodiversity loss is now broadly shared, but the dominant policy and market logics of innovation, optimization and risk management persist. In for example the urban mobility transition, we do see a technological shift towards electric mobility but not automatically a deeper cultural, spatial and behavioral shift towards cities in which as less vehicles and space are used to provide as much and as affordable mobility to all. We see a similar pattern in the built environment and food systems: the logics of policy and markets dictate optimization through (technological) innovation, while already for decades more radical alternatives have been developing and maturing locally worldwide. In this paper we explore how the basic principles and approach of transition management can be enriched with insights and methods from design to help institutionalize and mainstream the more radical alternatives.

Maintaining autonomy: Urban degrowth and the commoning of housing

The theory – and practice – of establishing autonomy from the hegemony of growth is central to the imaginary of degrowth. Yet to envisage pathways towards a degrowth society, scholars need to explain how autonomy coalesces into autonomous institutions. This article addresses this institutional challenge of how to secure autonomy in the provision of collective, affordable and decommodified housing in cities. Building on the tradition of autonomist and (post-)workerist thought, it conceptualises this challenge as one of maintenance. It argues that autonomy occurs through its perpetual reproduction, which is made possible by nesting and federating practices among autonomous communities. Nesting and federating practices allow these communities to avoid becoming enclaves and co-optation by market logics. The article illustrates these arguments through reference to the struggles of de Nieuwe Meent, a recent housing commoning project in Amsterdam.

Governance in teaching: student participation to improve learning

This article proposes to analyze governance in teaching as another form of organizational that promotes student participation in decision-making for the improvement of learning. The category of governance in teaching emerges from the research work "The systematization of a transforming experience of teaching practice", at a doctoral level, which is in process at the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of the State of Mexico. This category arises from the critical interpretation derived from the systematization of experiences, Latin American´s theoretical and methodological proposal developed by popular education. A method that gives voice to experiential knowledge, the transformation of practices and local knowledge. It is supported by qualitative, comprehensive, interpretive and reflective research. Governance in teaching is the result of a teaching that finds support critical pedagogy.
 This article critically dialogues with the neoliberal perspective that places governance from a market logic. This notion has been incorporated into educational policy and has been objectified in the regulations that govern the School Councils for Social Participation (Consejos Escolares de Participación Social) and in the 2017 Syllabus (Plan y Programa, 2017) particularly in the third component called curricular autonomy. The policy of social participation of educational actors proposed to improve the quality of the educational service; however, the voice of the students has been absent since its implementation. For this reason, an alternative practice of governance is introduced, derived from the experience´s critical interpretation of the research project, which is based on a teaching experience, with which findings of a new model of organization and social participation are exposed, where the students have a leading role.

The impact of government partisanship on social policy in a young democracy: The case of South Korea

AbstractThis article investigates the impact of government partisanship on social policy developments in South Korea. Social policy developments of the center‐left Kim Dae‐Jung government and the conservative Lee Myung‐Bak government are compared using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. The comparison demonstrates that each government is distinctive in its welfare expenditures as well as welfare ideology and reforms. The welfare reforms instituted by the Kim government strengthened the social security‐centered welfare state. In contrast, the Lee government commoditized labor and strengthened the free market logic in the welfare delivery system. Despite the impacts of partisanship, both governments dealing with economic crises and interacting with social movements were required to expand social policy. Consequently, the policy differences between the governments turned out to be less pronounced than expected. This article suggests that the party difference theory, which considers socioeconomic and political constraints, could explain crucial parts of social policy outputs in South Korea.

Marketization of Eldercare in Urban China: Processes, Effects, and Implications

China is one of the most rapidly aging societies worldwide. As eldercare services have only been developed over the last two decades, the party-state has increased its efforts by promoting the marketization of eldercare services. Drawing on Vaittinen, Hoppania, and Karsio’s “political economy of care” framework, this study conducts a comparative analysis of marketization processes in Hangzhou and Nanjing to examine local government marketization strategies, their effects on service development, and their socioeconomic implications. I argue that local governments have pursued a “dual-track marketization” strategy. On the one hand, the means-tested public eldercare service infrastructure, which has existed since the Mao Zedong era, has been made subject to the kinds of neoliberal market reforms also found in, for example, European countries, while on the other hand, an entirely new private eldercare service infrastructure is being set up. As the market logic takes over, however, income- and gender-based social inequalities are enhanced.

Changing trends of rates of return: a study from the higher education market in China

ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, higher education at different levels has been expanding along with the high-speed development of the Chinese economy. Based on large-scale survey data of the whole country in 1995, 2002, 2008, and 2013, the paper studies the dynamic rates of return (ROR) to higher education at different levels in China. The empirical results show that (1) The ROR to junior college level and undergraduate level shows an increase following a decreasing trend. (2) The ROR to postgraduate education has been maintaining an increasing trend at a constant speed. (3) At junior college and undergraduate levels, the ROR of females is higher than that of males, which is consistent with the gender difference of other educational levels. (4) At the postgraduate level, the ROR of males is higher than that of females, and such cases can be seen in other countries and regions. These findings can be new evidence for market-oriented postgraduate education and support the cost-sharing policy. Then it is possible to develop postgraduate education with market logic and increase tuition while increasing the scale of postgraduate education.