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Luxury as a Construct: An Evolutionary Perspective

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New Luxury Management

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When dealing with luxury, one of the most critical aspects is the fact that the interpretation of what is luxury and what is not luxury is typically judgemental, somehow blurred and constantly evolving.

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  1. Department of Management, Economics and Industrial EngineeringPolitecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Brun

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  1. NEOMA Business School, i3-CRG École polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris - Saclay, Paris, France

    Emmanuelle Rigaud-Lacresse

  2. MIP, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Fabrizio Maria Pini

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Brun, A. (2017). Luxury as a Construct: An Evolutionary Perspective. In: Rigaud-Lacresse, E., Pini, F. (eds) New Luxury Management. Palgrave Advances in Luxury. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41727-1_1

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