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Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 01 December 2025
10.1108/S0733-558X20250000097002
EISBN: 978-1-83662-618-3
ISBN: 978-1-83662-621-3
...This paper explores the overlooked role of senses in generating, applying, and recognizing expertise. Drawing from scholarly work on aesthetics, we highlight the role of aesthetic knowledge in expertise – knowledge that resides in cultivated sensory judgments that experts employ to work...
Book Chapter
Published: 21 February 2025
10.1108/978-1-83549-376-220251024
EISBN: 978-1-83549-376-2
ISBN: 978-1-83549-377-9
... the preceding framework, we can see how VR exacerbates game design's two pitfalls of failing to bring about the intended agential experience either by being too restrictive or too permissive with the player's agential role (for a discussion of VR aesthetics more broadly, see Grau, 2003 ; Tavinor, 2021...
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Series: International Perspectives on Inclusive Education
Published: 07 June 2024
10.1108/S1479-363620240000023002
EISBN: 978-1-83797-719-2
ISBN: 978-1-83797-720-8
... funded a pilot project to explore the following questions: From 2010, my research has experimented with different kinds of participatory audience to see what they might like to do with their voice-touch when it is untethered from standard aesthetic frameworks. Finally, We Arrive at the Research...
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Series: Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
Published: 08 December 2023
10.1108/S2040-72462023000018A003
EISBN: 978-1-80382-411-6
ISBN: 978-1-80382-412-3
...Abstract The very soul of cultural and arts entrepreneurship (CAE) is aesthetic. However, what is the importance of being aesthetic in CAE? An understanding of aesthetics substantially improves both our comprehension of CAE and our capacity to theorise about entrepreneurship and creative...
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Serial: Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
Published: 24 November 2022
10.1108/978-1-80117-514-220221006
EISBN: 978-1-80117-514-2
ISBN: 978-1-80117-515-9
... technology internet/wireless aesthetics media studies Our heroine makes her way through a maze of CCTV cameras, traffic lights and locked doors while her colleague is in a nearby inconspicuous van feeding her the necessary information and keycodes she needs to open doors or manipulates a surveillance feed...
Book Chapter
Published: 02 March 2021
10.1108/978-1-80043-896-520211020
EISBN: 978-1-80043-896-5
ISBN: 978-1-80043-897-2
... of art); in turn, the spectator, when he understands what was shown to him (using his knowledge of the world and aesthetic appreciation) tries to express what he understood and felt. In this way, a very incomplete translation occurs, from aesthetic language into another language – talk about what you saw...
Book Chapter
Published: 02 March 2021
10.1108/978-1-80043-896-520211003
EISBN: 978-1-80043-896-5
ISBN: 978-1-80043-897-2
... becomes part of an ongoing creative process reinforcing individual and collective meaning-making, and plays a vital role in shaping our ideas and values. Though in this globalized world many ideals exist, aesthetics and/or art in order to be meaningful can only be understood in relation...
Book Chapter
Serial: Great Debates in Higher Education
Published: 08 February 2021
10.1108/978-1-80043-448-620211008
EISBN: 978-1-80043-448-6
ISBN: 978-1-80043-451-6
.... Engagement school failure aesthetics motivation art in education well-being In this quote, Kevin seems to experience school as uninteresting or irrelevant. He uses the word boring and gives the expression of being disengaged and absent. However, as a contradiction to the description of this context, he...
Book Chapter
Series: Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Published: 18 January 2021
10.1108/S2055-364120200000035004
EISBN: 978-1-83909-860-4
ISBN: 978-1-83909-861-1
...Abstract This essay is a philosophical exploration of the concept of the interesting. It draws a line from philosophical aesthetics to the philosophy of pedagogy and argues that an awareness of the nature of the interesting – an awareness of what makes something interesting, aesthetically – can...
Book Chapter
Series: Advances in Strategic Management
Published: 09 November 2020
10.1108/S0742-332220200000042002
EISBN: 978-1-80043-236-9
ISBN: 978-1-80043-237-6
... aesthetic references over broader appeal. The ability to understand complexity is acquired through the accumulation of field-specific capital, leading the upper classes to prefer complex cultural products ( Bourdieu (1992) [1996] ). This positive assessment of complexity is observed not only at the product...
Book Chapter
Series: Advances in Strategic Management
Published: 09 November 2020
10.1108/S0742-332220200000042007
EISBN: 978-1-80043-236-9
ISBN: 978-1-80043-237-6
..., especially with respect to aesthetics ( Eckman & Wagner, 1994 ). What is fashionable or ‘in fashion’ in a specific period depends on the distinctive stylistic elements that a large number of people wear at the same time. An innovation in fashion has to do with the process of changing styles and social...
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Series: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity
Published: 19 October 2020
10.1108/S2398-601820200000006018
EISBN: 978-1-78769-389-0
ISBN: 978-1-78769-390-6
... [secret-sacred] depths. But, even more fundamentally, he sees this as a chance for his understanding of what it is to be human, to inform – and, perhaps, transform – a discipline established to study just that. Aesthetics have been central to this task. If you have a chance to grab a copy of the book, you...
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Serial: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
Published: 20 August 2020
10.1108/978-1-83909-037-020201018
EISBN: 978-1-83909-037-0
ISBN: 978-1-83909-038-7
.... Inclusion of a symbol from Doughty’s personal lore further strengthens the reins that Doughty holds on this movement. Fashion and Aesthetics Deathlings thus are aligned with the movement when they consume its message – assimilating the humorous rhetoric, or literally, consuming...
Book Chapter
Published: 19 February 2020
10.1108/978-1-78973-885-820201002
EISBN: 978-1-78973-885-8
ISBN: 978-1-78973-886-5
... from the scholarly community ( Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2000 ). The most established discourse that looks positively at arts–business partnerships relies on instrumental ontologies. In other words, the arts hold a special value for organizations because they can contribute...
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Series: Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Published: 29 November 2019
10.1108/S1871-317320190000016010
EISBN: 978-1-83867-070-2
ISBN: 978-1-83867-071-9
...) ( Pfeifer, 2010 ). The ability to absorb elements of the (perceived) territorial identity and the traditioned past and adapt it to the functional demands and aesthetics of current times can provide regions with a possibility of differentiation and the creation of distinctive qualities. Sensitisation can...
Book Chapter
Series: Business and Society 360
Published: 24 May 2019
10.1108/S2514-175920190000003006
EISBN: 978-1-78973-683-0
ISBN: 978-1-78973-684-7
... to measure such cognitive and emotional (or intuitive) means by which individuals make difficult moral choices will be discussed. Moral judgment moral psychology ethical decision-making aesthetics intuitionist ethics emotion Introduction This chapter will discuss the evolution of the use and validity...
Book Chapter
Series: Review of Marketing Research
Published: 29 June 2018
10.1108/S1548-643520180000015010
EISBN: 978-1-78754-828-2
ISBN: 978-1-78754-829-9
... the findings that different types of design attributes – that is, functionality, aesthetics, and environmental sustainability – affect profit margin per unit differently. Further, the chapter claims that design is a core competency that can pay dividends in terms of profit margins for firms. It is important...
Book Chapter
Series: Review of Marketing Research
Published: 29 June 2018
10.1108/S1548-643520180000015011
EISBN: 978-1-78754-828-2
ISBN: 978-1-78754-829-9
..., as a firm’s ability to integrate functionality, aesthetics, and meaning in its new products. We hypothesize relationships between a firm’s design orientation, customer orientation, technological orientation, and willingness to cannibalize on its new product performance. Methodology/approach We use data...
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Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 03 April 2018
10.1108/S0733-558X20180000055005
EISBN: 978-1-78743-773-9
ISBN: 978-1-78743-774-6
... position (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and management) is compared and contrasted with a series of related concepts (status, fashion, trend, genre, movement, and category). Style is defined as a durable, recognizable pattern of aesthetic choices. Propositions that relate style...

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