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Consumer Culture in Transition—The Consumption Habits and Mobility Experiences of Globally-Mobile Millennials from China
Key insights In her IEMS academic seminar, researcher Wei-Fen Chen explores the transitional identity and consumption habits of millennial consumers from emerging markets. Consumer identities are becoming increasingly hard to define in modern, dynamic societies using traditional demographics. It is based on in-depth ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/consumer-culture-in-transition-weifeng-chen
Lay Theories of Obesity: Corporate Leanwashing and the Obesity Crisis as Market Failure
Video Key Insights In this Academic Seminar, IEMS Faculty Associate Anirban Mukhopadhyay reveals a link between obesity and attitudes towards diet. His study shows that people who believe that exercise is more important than diet were more likely to be overweight. Conversely, people who believed that diet was more ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/lay-theories-of-obesity-anirban-mukhopadhyay
Generically Modified: Effects of Consumer Beliefs about Food Constituents on Health
The obesity crisis is growing worldwide, and has a total economic cost of US$2. trillion The prevalence and growth rate of obesity is highest in some developing countries, but most research on how people’s beliefs influence their food-related decisions is based in the West. We have previously found that many ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2016/mukhopadhyay-generically-modified-effects-consumer
Understanding Food Consumption in Developing Countries
Once considered a problem of only high-income countries, obesity rates are also rising at an increasing rate in developing countries. As obesity increases the risk of chronic diseases and causes an upsurge in healthcare costs, urgent action is required to prevent obesity in developing countries. Most research on food ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2016/huh-understanding-food-consumption-developing
World Economic Forum: The Changing Face of China
IEMS Director Albert Park joined a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum’s discussion on the “Changing Face of China”, which included in-depth exploration of new demographic trends, norms, and policy priorities reshaping Chinese society. Specific topics included the impact of China’s new ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2016/park-joins-world-economic-forums-discussion-on-changing-face-of-china
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