The Arizona Market

Sredl, Katherine; Shultz, Clifford J.; Brečić, Ružica

doi:10.1177/0276146717712359

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“…Markets and consumption can also be sources of exclusion, stigma, inequality, and social conflict as well as producing meaning, improving well-being and bringing prosperity Krisjanous and Kadirov 2018;Singh et al 2021;Sredl, Shultz, and Brečić 2017). Consumer vulnerability may emerge when encountering distresses in addition to daily tensions or trigger events (Baker and Mason 2012).…”

Section: The Transformative Role Of Literacy In Addressing Marketplac...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fanning et al 2020;O'Neill et al 2018). Provisioning systems analysis offers a useful means for marketing systems research to contribute beyond community-based issues or macro social marketing problems and move into contexts that examine the supply of essential resources (Fanning et al 2020;Kennedy 2017;Sredl et al 2017;Williams et al 2020). This paper aims to deepen the connections between macromarketing systems research and provisioning systems research by investigating one such provisioning system.…”

Section: The Marketplace As Intercultural Dreaming and Collective Desirementioning

confidence: 99%

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The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

Benton,

Stasch

2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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It is important that macromarketers understand how income and wealth inequality affect the way people think, live, and die. It is also important that they understand the source(s) of that inequality. This paper discusses how the power elite and the rich used the law to strategically withhold from the bottom 99 percent of the population the wealth generated in the post-World War II economy. This included more than a dozen specific stealth activities the U.S. government enacted from 1970 to 2010, although only a few are highlighted in this commentary. These activities created a Program of Welfare for the Wealthy that worked against the general welfare of the American people. We refer to these as stealth activities because much of what happens in government occurs behind the scenes, in the dark.

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Section: The Transformative Role Of Literacy In Addressing Marketplac...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Marketplace As Intercultural Dreaming and Collective Desirementioning

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The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

Benton,

Stasch

2024

Journal of Macromarketing

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“…The retail marketspecifically the food retail marketis an important market satisfying the basic needs of people (Shultz et al, 2005;Sredl et al, 2017). Given the vital importance of food retail markets in the daily life of refugees, the design of market-based TSIs in this ecosystem would improve the service inclusion of refugees and their well-being (Alkire et al, 2020;Barrios et al, 2016;Sredl et al, 2017). This domain has not been explored enough in the service marketing and the public policy literature (Gardiazabal et al, 2020).…”

Section: Public Policy and Refugee Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public policy literature has investigated the role of policymakers and international aid agencies in transforming people’s lives during social conflicts by improving business infrastructure – such as the food retail ecosystem – in these countries. The macro impacts of various policy packages have been explored in different contexts such as in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South America (Barrios et al , 2016; DeQuero-Navarro et al , 2020; Shultz et al , 2020; Sredl et al , 2017). One focal point of these studies is showcasing the importance of market-based policy interventions and their long-term impact on market structure and people’s welfare.…”

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The role of market-based transformative service initiatives in service inclusion of refugees

Eslami

Kabadayi

Kozah

2023

JSM

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Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate the role of market-based transformative service initiatives (TSIs) during the refugee crisis and shed light on how such TSIs increase inclusion of refugees in service systems by using market forces while creating broader benefits for service organizations themselves. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the case of the World Food Program’s (WFP) Dalili smartphone application targeting Syrian refugees in the context of Lebanon. A mixed-methods approach, including in-depth interviews with the retail managers of the local supermarkets and statistical cross- and intra-regional analysis on the retailing mix elements of the local supermarkets was adopted for the empirical investigation. Findings The results show that the WFP’s Dalili TSI increases service inclusion of refugees by facilitating their access to the essential food services easier and at affordable prices and helps them integrate into the host community. Furthermore, such market-based TSIs were shown to have broader benefits for other stakeholders in the food retail ecosystem including retailers and nonrefugee shoppers as they are successful in improving the retailing management standards of the participating supermarkets by decreasing the average retail price of the merchandise, increasing their variety and assortment, increasing promotional offers and improving the customer service level. Research limitations/implications This research fills the gap in the literature for empirical investigation on the impact mechanism of market-based TSIs on service inclusion and well-being of refugees. In contrast to the majority of TSIs studied in the literature that are designed by governments or nonprofit organizations in the areas such as higher education, health care and humanitarian aids, this study focuses on the case of TSIs developed by supranational organizations using market forces in the food retail ecosystem. Furthermore, the findings suggest that TSIs could also benefit the service organizations that offer such initiatives. Practical implications The findings of this paper have implications for service organizations and policymakers and their ability to design effective market-based TSIs during the refugee crisis. Originality/value The studied case in the context of TSIs in the food retail ecosystem and the empirical approach used are academically novel. Moreover, focusing on the refugee crisis in the Middle East region is rather understudied in the service research literature.

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“…Consumers co-create with firms in both developed and developing countries (Peterson 2022). Surprisingly, consumers co-create with each other and often become vendors themselves in postconflict settings, such as the Arizona Market in Bosnia-formerly the site of armed conflict (Sredl, Shultz, and Brečic 2017). In the realm of sustainability, consumers also enable a circular economy characterized by resource loops that result in less waste (Claudy and Peterson 2022).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Consumer Support for Sustainable Business Practices in the Frontier Market of Lebanon

Peterson

Watson

Abou-Khalil

2023

Journal of Macromarketing

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Frontier markets of the world are countries with promising long-term rewards for investors, but risky and uncertain prospects in the next few years. These pre-emerging markets include such countries as Nigeria, Bangladesh, Jordan and Lebanon. Although sustainable business practices have appeared in frontier markets, the fragility and volatility of these markets raise the question about the nature of consumer support for sustainability in these challenging markets. Specifically, not much is currently known about factors influencing consumers’ purchasing support for firms pursuing sustainable business practices in frontier markets. This study contributes to macromarketers’ understanding of frontier markets by addressing consumers’ support for sustainable business practices in Lebanon. Structural equation modeling results of survey responses suggest that sustainable business practices influence purchasing of Lebanese consumers and are positively affected by antecedents, such as 1) Attitude toward Business Benevolence, 2) Environmental Values, and 3) Concern about Business Ethics. These results correspond to those from a US sample suggesting that support for sustainable business is not merely a phenomenon for developed markets—but for frontier markets, as well.

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The Arizona Market

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy

The role of market-based transformative service initiatives in service inclusion of refugees

Explaining Consumer Support for Sustainable Business Practices in the Frontier Market of Lebanon

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