Evolving humanity, emerging worlds
Manchester, UK; 5th-10th August 2013
(SE13)
Anthropology of old brand business (IUAES Commission on Enterprise Anthropology)
Location Roscoe 2.2
Date and Start Time 07 Aug, 2013 at 09:00
Convenor
Jijiao Zhang (Insititute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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Short Abstract
Old brand stores, facteries or companies includes the local cultural or ethnic heritages and their values for morden business, anthropologists with different cultural backgrounds need to pay attention to these kinds of cultural and business facts.
Long Abstract
There are many old brands around the world, not only in developed countries but also in developing or underdeveloped countries.
Old brand stores, facteries or companies includes the local cultural or ethnic heritages and their values for morden business, anthropologists with different cultural backgrounds need to pay attention to these kinds of cultural and business facts.
High reputations, brand equity and cultural elements these enterprises bear can be recognized as their core competence that has helped their survival in the past. Nowadays, in order to maintain a constant development, it would wise for them to integrate their core competence into their operations systematically and adopt value chain management.
Our research is wondering: Why these enterprises can survive? Because of their intangible cultural heritage, brand equity or cultural deposit? Will they survive in the future?
For example, according to China's Ministry of Commerce, Chinese Old Brand Enterprises are those inherit Chinese traditional culture and bear unique techniques, products, and services in their operations. These enterprises, labeled with distinctive historical character, enjoy high reputation and wide recognition.
Chair: Zhang Jijiao
Discussant: Thock Ker Pong
This panel is closed to new paper proposals.
Papers
Studies on the Culture of London Underground
Short Abstract
The paper offers history on London Underground, focuses on analysis of Tub Map, multicultural exhibitions, architectures, paintings, films and etc. The ultimate aim is to study the Culture of London Underground as an old business, and further highlights an inspiration to city culture development.
Long Abstract
The underground is linked to the underground culture. London Underground, as an old business, has been becoming a unique public transport to spread multicultural practice and multi- language communication from residents in United Kingdom, domestic and foreign tourists across London to offer a huge array of audiences.
London Underground, opened in 1863, with over four million passenger journeys a day, is the oldest one in the world. It has 275 stations and 402 kilometres of track, and is regarded as the second largest metro system in the world after Shanghai Metro system of China.
The Culture of London Underground is reflected as follows. The design of London Tube Map is widely accepted by the Londoners and visitors, and has become an underground culture symbol in the world. The Art on the London Underground has won global acclaim to an international award for culture on a public transport system. Multicultural exhibitions have been held on the London Underground, in which different style of architecture are seen due to different times of railway construction. The paintings were put on the wall, films were produced and allusions were broadcasted inside the London Underground, furthermore, the passengers are reading books as well as newspapers while taking the underground.
London Underground has promotes the cultural practice on public transport, and the culture helps the passengers share the communication of multi-language skills and multi-cultures and customs. This paper aims to study the influences of the Culture of London Underground and its inspiration to city culture development.
competitiveness of old brand enterprises: case studies in beijing
Short Abstract
In this paper, the authors claim that high reputations, brand equity and cultural elements these enterprises bear can be recognized as their core competence that has helped their survival in the past.
Long Abstract
In this paper, the authors claim that high reputations, brand equity and cultural elements these enterprises bear can be recognized as their core competence that has helped their survival in the past.Nowadays, in order to maintain a constant development, it would wise for them to integrate their core competence into their operations systematically and adopt value chain management. At the same time, a clear sense of their core competence, development strategies, core business optimization would be of help to improve their core competence. In a word, sustainable development of Old brand Enterprises lies in the improvement of value chain management based on their core competence.
Traditional Chinese medicine culture and nutritional products of old brand stores
Short Abstract
Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture is closely linked with the nutritional Products of the Old Brand Stores. The TCM culture offers theorectical basis for the OBSs to initiate their products accordingly.
Long Abstract
Health care (YANG SHENG) concept is a great part of Traditional Chinese Medicine culture. Ancient theory on "preventive treatment of disease " in Huang Di Nei Jing—— Huang di's Canon of Medicine, is an important principle. "Tian Ren He Yi" , theory that man is an integral part of nature, "Yin Yang" and The meridian-collateral theory are the other important principles to guide the health practice. According to this theory, healthy products'nature should be following the principles, for example, for different seasons, people should have different kind of health products and the twenty-four solar terms see the more detailed change of the nature and health care follows and health products change with it. Old Brand Stores utilize the theories well to promote series of health food and products successfully.
Social Responsibility of Old Brand Enterprises in China
Short Abstract
an analysis of social reponsibility practices of old brand enterprises in China
Long Abstract
this paper looks into old brand enterprises in China from the perspective of social reponsility, with stakeholder analysis, and distinguishes the development of social responsibity of this kind of enterprise into 4 categories according to the responbilities they carried out. in conclusion, the author proposes some suggestions on how to improve CSR practices of old brand enterprises including CSR reporting and information disclosure.
Case study on technical innovation in China old brand enterprise
Short Abstract
The great challenge Chinese old brands facing is mainly the combination of traditional culture and new technology.
Long Abstract
The great challenge Chinese old brands facing is mainly the combination of traditional culture and new technology. Chinese old brands combine tradition and modern, firstly tradition technologies have both advantage and disadvantage, secondly most old brands are in competitive fields, thirdly the combination of the inheritance of traditional technology and culture, and modern technology does not decrease the value of traditional technology, last old brands have taken process to create and apply new technology. Above all, this work analyses several cases which have taken progress. This work tries to approve that several factors play important roles in the innovation of new technology, such as talents, finance and culture. For revitalization and development, old brands should pay more attention on talents, finance and culture.
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