Value from the perspective of the customer is fundamental to firm success (Holbrook, 2005; Sweeney and Soutar, 2001; Ulaga and Eggert, 2006). Given that customers are individuals, and differ in terms of how they see themselves and what they value; individual customers willingly or unwillingly participate in the cocreation of brand value (Kates, 2004), and whilst there is general agreement about...

An old problem in matrix theory is to determine the n-tuples of complex numbers which can occur as the spectrum of a matrix with nonnegative entries (see [BP94, Chapter 4] or [Min88, Chapter VII]). Authors have studied the case where the ntuple is comprised of real numbers [Bor95, Cia68, Fri78, Kel71, Per53, Sal72, Sou83, Sul49], the case where the matrices under consideration are symmetric [Fi...

What is the significance of UCD for field International Political Economy? In 2019, Justin Rosenberg and Chris Boyle argued that Trotsky’s idea provided an understanding capitalist world ...

James Boyle has led a recent call for intellectual property “environmentalism”—a movement to fend off perceived threats to the public interest posed by expansions in the scope and term of intellectual property protection.1 Inspired in part by Boyle’s message, a number of organizations have sprung up that aspire to expand and cultivate the body of intellectual works that are not subject to propr...

Robert Boyle's experimental programme had as its end-product the generation of indisputable matters of fact. In this paper 1analyze the resources used to produce these matters of fact, paying particular attention to linguistic practices. Experimental reports rich in circumstantial detail were designed to enable readers of the text to create a mental image of an experimental scene they did not d...

Everyone says that the ownership and control of information is one of the most important forms of power in contemporary society ... . It is intellectual property, not the regulation of cyber-smut, that provides the key to the distribution of wealth, power and access in the information society. The intellectual property regime could make – or break – the educational, political, scientific and cu...