Dynamics of Auction - Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques

Informationen zum Autor Christian Heath is Professor at the Work, Interaction and Technology Research Centre, Department of Management, King's College London. Klappentext Addresses how social interaction forms the foundation to sale of art and antiques worth many billions of pounds each year. Zusammenfassung In this book! Heath explores how the sale of art and antiques worth many billions of pounds each year is accomplished through social interaction. He demonstrates how an economic institution of some global importance! the auction! rests upon the fine details of talk! gesture and material action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Auctions: institutional form and interactional organisation; 2. The orders of bidding; 3. Trust and the integrity of bids; 4. Establishing competition: creating an impression of demand; 5. Bidding and the pursuit of bids; 6. Remote presence and on-line participation; 7. On the strike of the hammer; 8. Embodied interaction and the order of markets; Appendix I. Glossary of terms; Appendix II. Transcription notation; References.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Heath, Christian (King's College London) Heath, Christian (King''s College London) Heath, Heath Christian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9780521767408
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76740-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories