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PurposeThis study aims to identify the main elements that describe the luxury supply chain. It discusses the relationship between them in a framework that organises and summarises the literature.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review was conducted that returned 288 papers, which were selected based on specific quality and theme criteria. Content analysis was used to investigate the alignment of critical success factors with the performance goals and configuration elements of luxury supply chains in the final sample of 66 papers.FindingsThe results provide a framework that clarifies the relationship between the configuration elements and supply chain performance goals and the critical success factors for three different levels of the luxury market. Depending on the level of luxury, performance goals and configuration elements assume a different importance and different characteristics. An understanding of these differences is relevant for defining strategies and managing luxury supply chains properly. The three different configurations also reveal new research avenues to be further investigated.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited in terms of its data source as the papers reviewed were collected from only three academic databases.Practical implicationsThe findings of this work help incorporate knowledge about luxury supply chain management into a framework that can be easily used for defining strategies and organising the supply chain according to the different levels of luxury.Originality/valueThis study represents an important evolution in organising the current literature on luxury supply chain management into a framework that covers critical success factors, supply chain performance goals and configuration elements for three different levels of luxury, which in turn creates promising opportunities for future enquiry.

Zwischen Aversion und Affinität: Konzeptionen und Imaginationen von Luxus in der Neuzeit. Während Luxuria im Mittelalter unter die sieben Todsünden fiel, erkannten die Wirtschaftstheoretiker um 1700, dass die Produktion von Überflüssigem Wohlstand schafft, und verwiesen vermehrt auf die Vorteile des Luxus als Triebfeder von Nachfrage, technischem Fortschritt, erhöhter Beschäftigung und Export. Die ökonomische Aufwertung des Luxus verdrängte jedoch die Problematisierung nicht einfach; vielmehr entstand eine charakteristische Ambivalenz in den Argumentationen und Präsentationen, die sich auch in der soziologischen und anthropologischen Bewertung sowie insbesondere in der Ästhetik und Kunst bzw. Literatur äußert. Aus dem Inhalt Alexander Honold: Luxuria. Eine Tugend unter den Lastern Ute Tellmann: Figuren des Überflüssigen und die politisch-moralischen Grenzziehungen in der Ökonomie: luxuriöse Dinge, Menschenmassen und Parasiten Dominik Schrage: Vom Luxuskonsum zum Standardpaket. Der Überfluss und seine Zähmung als Thema der Soziologie Heinz Drügh: Luxus der Lehrjahre. Zur Logik der Verschwendung in Goethes »Wilhelm Meister« Monika Schmitz-Emans: Imaginierter Luxus. Phantasien der Sinnlichkeit und Erfahrungen des Entzugs bei Italo Calvino

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Herausgeber und Autorinnenverzeichnis -- 1 Einführung -- Literatur -- 2 Entwicklung der Makroumwelt des (Luxus-)Tourismusmarktes -- 2.1 Vorbemerkungen -- 2.2 Politisch-rechtliche Umwelt -- 2.3 Ökonomische Umwelt -- 2.4 Sozio-kulturelle Umwelt -- 2.5 Technologische Umwelt -- 2.6 Ökologisch-natürliche Umwelt -- 2.7 Fazit -- Literatur -- 3 Analyse des Phänomens Luxus -- 3.1 Definition und Konzepte des Luxus -- 3.2 Luxusverständnis im Wandel der Zeit -- 3.3 Economic relevance of luxury markets -- 3.4 Zukunftsszenarien des Luxusphänomens -- 3.5 Studienergebnisse zum Reise- und Buchungsverhalten von Luxusreisekunden -- Literatur -- 4 Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Erklärungen des Luxuskonsums -- 4.1 Luxus und soziokulturelle Umwelt im Wandel -- 4.1.1 Zum Luxus-Begriff -- 4.1.2 Luxus in den Zeiten des Mangels -- 4.1.3 Demokratisierung des Luxus -- 4.1.4 Luxus in den Zeiten des Überflusses -- 4.1.5 Schlussbemerkung -- 4.2 Behavioral explanations for luxury consumption -- 4.3 The purchase decision and service consumption process for luxury goods -- 4.4 Luxuskonsum als Angstbewältigungsprozess -- 4.5 Luxuskonsum als Heilungsprozess -- Literatur -- 5 Marketingmanagement von Luxusanbietern -- 5.1 Marketingstrategien -- 5.2 Marktsegmentierung -- 5.3 Marketinginstrumente -- 5.3.1 Produkt- und Servicepolitik -- 5.3.2 Preispolitik -- 5.3.3 Kommunikationspolitik -- 5.3.4 Distributionspolitik -- 5.4 Storytelling in a digital age -- 5.5 Unternehmensführung im Luxustourismussegment - Beispiel Topend-Hotels -- 5.6 The pioneering force of luxury travel -- Literatur -- 6 Luxus und Tourismusangebot -- 6.1 Aktuelle Differenzierungskriterien in der Luxushotellerie -- 6.2 Interview: Luftverkehr - jenseits der First Class -- 6.3 Kreuzfahrten - jenseits von Upper Premium.

Purpose
This paper aims to bridge the extended reality framework and the luxury hospitality literature by providing insights into how immersive technologies using artificial intelligence (AI) can shape luxury value and consumer differentiation.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted three experimental studies comparing immersive AI versus traditional hospitality across luxury contexts (hotels, restaurants and spas). Study 1 investigates the effect of immersive AI (vs traditional hospitality) on customers' behavioral intentions and the need for differentiation using virtual-assisted reality. Study 2 tests the underlying mechanism of the need for differentiation and luxury value in an augmented reality context. Study 3 provides additional support for the proposed underlying mechanism using virtual-assisted reality in luxury hospitality.


Findings
The findings reveal that immersive AI (vs traditional) luxury hospitality reduces customers' behavioral intentions of using such services and perceived luxury value. Moreover, the findings indicate that the intention to use immersive AI (vs traditional) luxury hospitality services is contingent upon customers' need for differentiation.


Originality/value
The findings have important theoretical and managerial implications for immersive technologies in luxury hospitality. They shed light on the dynamics between integrating immersive AI into luxury hospitality and its impact on customers' differentiation motives and perceived luxury value. The findings reveal the detrimental effect of using immersive AI (vs traditional hospitality) within this context.

Luxus ist seit der Antike mit verschwenderischer Prachtentfaltung und moralphilosophischen Fragen nach gerechter Güterverteilung verbunden. Die Forschung hat sich dementsprechend bislang vornehmlich mit seinen negativen Konnotationen auseinandergesetzt. Versteht man Luxus hingegen als literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Distinktions- und Relationsbegriff, kann er auch als interdiskursives und imagologisches Phänomen aufgefasst werden. Anhand von zwei zeitlichen Längsschnitten, vom 12. bis zum 15. und vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, untersuchen die Autoren dieses Bandes historische Signatu

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Literature -- Development of the Macro-environment of the (Luxury) Tourism Market -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 Political-Legal Environment -- 3 Economic Environment -- 4 Sociocultural Environment -- 5 Technological Environment -- 6 Ecological-Natural Environment -- 7 Conclusion -- Literature -- Analysis of the Luxury Phenomenon -- 1 Definition and Concepts of Luxury -- 2 Understanding of Luxury in the Course of Time -- 3 Economic Relevance of Luxury Markets -- 4 Future Scenarios of the Luxury Phenomenon -- 5 Study Results on the Travel and Booking Behavior of Luxury Travel Customers -- Literature -- Behavioral Explanations of Luxury Consumption -- 1 Luxury in a Changing Sociocultural Environment -- The Concept of Luxury -- Luxury in Times of Shortage -- The Big Feast -- A Question of Taste -- The Birth of Capitalism from the Spirit of Asceticism -- The Birth of Capitalism from the Spirit of Waste -- Demonstrative Consumption in the Bourgeois Age -- Democratization of Luxury -- Interwar Period -- Post-war Period -- Luxury in Times of Abundance -- Concluding Remark -- 2 Behavioral Explanations for Luxury Consumption -- Introduction -- The Essence of Luxury: It Is All About an Extraordinary Experience -- The Drivers of Luxury Consumption -- Motivational Theories: Luxury and Needs -- Self-Concept: Luxury and Identity -- Experiential Consumption: Luxury and Emotions -- Consumer Value: Luxury and Dimensions of Consumer Value -- Discussion and Implications for Luxury Tourism -- 3 The Purchase Decision and Service Consumption Process for Luxury Goods -- The Creation of Desire -- Introduction -- Luxury and the Creation of Desire -- Desire and the Service Consumption Process -- Pre-purchase Stage -- Service Encounter Stage -- Post-encounter Stage.

This dissertation explores the cultural presence of the quarto book in Romantic-era Britain and argues that the format classed the period's defining literary ideologies--from sentimentalism, to liberalism, to Wordsworthian Romanticism, to orientalism--as luxuries meant exclusively for the nation's wealthiest consumers. Chapter 1 situates the quarto within the context of the period's luxury debates and advances a conception of the quarto as the era's predominant luxury format. Focusing on Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, Chapter 2 argues that early quarto editions of the poem classed the sympathetic feeling it celebrated as the unique privilege of a readerly elite and describes how the poem was later appropriated and repurposed by radically oriented Irish and English printers. In so doing, the chapter shows that British sentimentalism's political alignments were shaped by the formats of its major texts as much as changing political contexts. Chapter 3 argues that the Crown's refusal to prosecute quarto publications during the 1790s gave the format a protected status that was exploited by the era's major publisher of respectably radical political literature, Joseph Johnson. By publishing the anti-monarchical poems of Blake, Barlow, Wordsworth, and Coleridge in quarto, Johnson curbed their seditious tendencies and configured them as liberal works whose textual appeals to middle-class audiences were reinforced by their bibliographic format. Chapter 4 examines William Wordsworth's use of the quarto format to publish his career-defining poem The Excursion, arguing that the poem's quarto publication was not only intended to mitigate Wordsworth's anxieties of influence or declare his newly Royalist political alliance but that it also succeeded in classing the poem's aesthetic ideology for many Regency readers. Chapter 5 investigates the quarto's role in stoking British fears about oriental luxury: by showing how the reception of Regency-period oriental verse quartos like Robert Southey's The Curse of Kehama and ...

Intro -- Preface -- The Future Challenge of China's New Luxury Brand Cultivation -- Abstract -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Significance of Cultivating Local Luxury Goods in China -- 1.1.1 Economic and Politic Background in Marco Perspective -- 1.1.2 Scale Expanding of the Middle and High-End Market: Taking Luxury Goods as an Example -- 1.2 Current Research and Literature Review -- 1.2.1 Research Significance, Techniques and Value -- 1.2.2 Subject Matter, Framework, Content and Methodology -- 1.3 Key Points of the Book -- 1.3.1 Literature Review of Luxury Brand Research and Brand 3.1.1 Management at Home and Abroad -- 1.3.2 Digital Media, Digital Empowerment, Transformation and Upgrading: Literature Review at Home and Abroad -- 1.4 Future Research Trends -- 1.4.1 Development Trends of Existing Luxury Brands in a Digital-Empowered New Economy -- 1.4.2 Existing Research Deficiencies and Future Research Directions -- 2 Conceptual Framework -- 2.1 Concept of Traditional Luxury Brand -- 2.1.1 Definition and Historical Development -- 2.1.2 China's Luxury Market and Consumers Analysis -- 2.2 Chinese Local New Luxury Brands: Enlarging the Definition of Luxury -- 2.2.1 Definition of Chinese Local New Luxury Brands -- 2.2.2 Comparative Study with Different Terms -- 2.2.3 Characteristics of Chinese Local New Luxury Brands -- 2.3 Cultivation of Local New Luxury Brands in the Integration Background of Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading -- 2.3.1 Transformation and Upgrading of Local Manufacturing Industry -- 2.3.2 Local New Luxury Brands in the New Global Situation -- 2.4 Made in China with High Quality -- 2.4.1 Necessity and Practicality of Cultivating New Luxury Brands in China -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Connotation and Mechanism.

Purpose This study aims to comprehend luxury brands' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. In addition to facing a demand for new CSR strategies (consumer-centric CSR), changes in CSR discourse among luxury brands are observed. This study examines how CSR-related and luxury-related agendas relate in the news media, especially concerning the difference between traditional and new luxury brands.Design/methodology/approach A total of 117,171 fashion-related news articles were collected from January 2016 to December 2020. The word2vec method was used to determine the relationship between CSR and luxury agendas.FindingsThe results indicate that company-centric CSR is more prominent with traditional luxury brands, while consumer-centric CSR is more relevant for new luxury brands. In addition, specific CSR attributes and luxury-related attributes are associated with media discourse, which means that CSR and luxury are compatible.Originality/valueStudies on CSR in the luxury industry are not extensive in the literature. This study addresses this gap through a unique framework that combines agenda-setting theory and existing CSR literature and applies them to the luxury industry. Specifically, this study captures the development of each construct (company-centric CSR to consumer-centric CSR and traditional luxury to new luxury) and identifies the specific relationships between them. This result provides a novel view of the luxury industry indicating that it has evolved to encompass CSR-related values. The empirical results also offer practical implications for luxury marketing.

Abstract
Luxury product is a very ambiguous concept. The most commonly cited in the literature barrier to the creation of a universal definition of luxury is the relativity of the concept. The relativity of luxury nature of the product takes the form of regional, temporal, economic, cultural, situational, and also due to the individual characteristics of the consumer. It should be therefore considered how to shape the product and which marketing tools should be used, to give and keep a luxury image of it. Analysis of the literature in the field of sciences such as management, sociology, psychology or marketing clearly indicates the growing interest in both the concept of luxury as well as luxury goods. It should be noted, however, that according to the results of research on the perception of luxury, consumers from different countries, cultures show different features of the product as important from the point of view of the luxury nature of the good. The aim of article is identification of differences in the perception of luxury between consumers from different countries, representing different cultures, as well as the specifics of managing a luxury product depending on the country of its origin.