Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads /

Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Best, Joel
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2006.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnswk
目次:
  • The illusion of diffusion
  • Why we embrace novelties : conditions that foster institutional fads
  • The fad cycle : emerging
  • The fad cycle : surging
  • The fad cycle : purging
  • Fad dynamics
  • Becoming fad-proof.