188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book highlights the pressing issue of marketplace accessibility for over a billion people worldwide living with disabilities—a number that is expected to grow due to aging demographics. Despite this significant population, our societies and marketplaces remain predominantly designed for the non-disabled. This volume brings together a collection of studies from leading scholars that... Read more

Introduction: The disabling marketplace: towards a conceptualisation

Leighanne Higgins, Katharina C. Husemann and Anica Zeyen

 

1. Embodied interaction: a turn to better understand disabling marketplaces and consumer vulnerability

Nicklas Salomonson and Per Echeverri

 

2. Conceptualising the (dis)abling marketplace through value creation and destruction

Nadia Zainuddin, Melanie Randle, Ross Gordon and Sara Dolnicar

 

3. Exploring the higher education experiences of students living with disabilities: an online MBA case study

Svetlana De Vos, Bora Qesja, Ged Lipnickas and Joanne Harris

 

4. The social model and consumers with disabilities research: contributions, criticisms, and call for new perspectives

Anthony Beudaert, Marlys Mason and Jean-Philippe Nau

 

5. Disability and well-being: towards a Capability Approach for marketplace access

Anoop Bhogal-Nair, Andrew M. Lindridge, Mark Tadajewski, Mona Moufahim, Daniela Alcoforado, Mohammed Cheded, Bernardo Figueiredo and Chihling Liu

 

6. Aneuploidy

Jennifer Takhar

 

Biography

Leighanne Higgins is Professor in Marketing at Dublin City University. She began studying marketplace accessibility for consumers with disabilities in 2016. She is Chair of the Academy of Marketing’s Special Interest Group on Marketplace Access and has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Marketing Theory, and Journal of Marketing Management.

Katharina C. Husemann is a Reader in Marketing at Kings College London. Her research lies in consumer culture theory, and explores consumer experiences of, or responses to, a globalized, accelerated, and digitalized consumer culture. She is published in outlets such as Journal of Consumer Research, Harvard Business Review, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Marketing Management.

Anica Zeyen is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at Royal Holloway University of London. She researches disability inclusion in work and leisure using lived experience- based qualitative methods. Her work and advocacy aim to create a society where everyone can participate. She publishes widely and engages in public scholarship through exhibitions, podcasts, and documentaries.