Award Winners of SAGE Social Science Space Impact Contest
Six social and behavioral scientists were recently awarded the 2019 Impact in Action Writing Prize for their submissions detailing how their research makes a valuable difference beyond academia. Four submissions received the top prize from Social Science Space, an online social network sponsored by SAGE Publishing; two focus on education, one on immigration, and one on autism.
Together with two co-authors Sylvia Von Wallpach from the Department of Marketing was awarded a prize on their immigration project:
Impact in Action: Home in the Remaking
ABSTRACT
In a context of unprecedented cross-cultural migration, immigrants struggle to adapt to new cultures. The experience of home as physical, social, individual and temporal belonging is important to immigrants' adaptation processes. Extant literature either focuses on dimensions of home without reference to immigrants, studies material culture related to home, or researches identity projects of migrants without explicitly focusing on their subjective experience of home. This study adopts a phenomenological perspective to gain an in-depth understanding of first generation immigrants' subjective transcultural experiencing of home. By means of autobiographical phenomenological interviews the study identifies three ways of experiencing home: Longing for the past; transcultural mingling of social relationships and consumption; and experiencing home within oneself. The study corroborates extant literature on home, material culture and consumer acculturation and complements this literature with an additional, inner-directed focus of experiencing home. The findings have important implications for corporate and public policy makers.
Kreuzer, Maria, Mühlbacher, Hans & von Wallpach, Sylvia (2018). Home in the re-making: Immigrants' transcultural experiencing of home. Journal of Business Research, 91 (October), 334-341.
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Sylvia Von Wallpach, Professor with special responsibilities (MSO)