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<b>Walter James "Wally" Lewis</b> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Member of the Order of Australia">AM</a> (born 1 December 1959) is an Australian former professional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> footballer and coach of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, who has become a commentator for television coverage of the sport. A highly decorated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australian national</a> captain, Lewis is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever players of rugby league. His time as a player and coach was followed by a career as a newsreader for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Network" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nine Network">Nine Network</a>.</div>
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Nicknamed <b>The King</b> and also <b><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suncorp_Stadium#Popular_culture" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Suncorp Stadium">The Emperor of Lang Park</a></b>, Lewis represented Queensland in thirty-one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="State of Origin series">State of Origin</a> games from 1980 to 1991, and was captain for thirty of them. He also represented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_rugby_league_team" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australia national rugby league team">Australia</a> in thirty-three international matches from 1981 to 1991 and was national team captain from 1984 to 1989. Lewis is perhaps best known for his State of Origin performances, spearheading Queensland's dominance in that competition throughout the 1980s. He captained at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Origin_series" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="State of Origin series">State of Origin</a> level 30 times, winning a record 8 man of the match awards.</div>
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Lewis has since been inducted into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League_Hall_of_Fame" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame">Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame</a> and in 1999 he became the sixth member of '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortals_(rugby_league)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Immortals (rugby league)">The Immortals</a>'. In 2000, he was awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sports_Medal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australian Sports Medal">Australian Sports Medal</a> for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">In February 2008, Lewis was named in the list of Australia's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rugby_league%27s_100_greatest_players" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players"><i>100 Greatest Players</i></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rugby_League" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="National Rugby League">NRL</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Australian Rugby League">ARL</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">Lewis went on to be named in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league_positions#stand-off_half" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Rugby league positions">halves</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> in the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Kangaroos" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Australian Kangaroos">Kangaroos'</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League%27s_Team_of_the_Century" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century">Team of the Century</a></i><span style="font-size: 14px;">. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> In June 2008, he was also chosen in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Rugby_League%27s_Team_of_the_Century" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century">Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league_positions#half_backs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Rugby league positions">five-eighth</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and captain.</span><span style="font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">In October 2016, he became the 38th Legend of Australian Sport at the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Australia_Hall_of_Fame" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px;" title="Sport Australia Hall of Fame">Sport Australia Hall of Fame</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> awards.</span></div>
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In 2011, Lewis was a recipient of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Greats_Awards" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Queensland Greats Awards">Queensland Greats Awards</a>.</div>
<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-68181310715218260872017-02-20T18:58:00.001-08:002017-02-20T18:58:04.454-08:002016 Brisbane Italian Festival in New Farm Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-67056975176868966802017-02-20T18:51:00.002-08:002017-02-20T18:51:34.245-08:00Alessandro Sorbello with Grandmaster William Cheung<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">William Cheung</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Cheung Cheuk Hing</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> born October, 1940, is a Chinese </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Chun" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Wing Chun">Wing Chun</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> kung fu practitioner and currently the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_(Martial_Arts)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Grandmaster (Martial Arts)">Grandmaster</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Wing_Chun_Kung_Fu" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu">Traditional Wing Chun (TWC)</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">. He also heads the sanctioning body of TWC, the Global Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu Association (GTWCKFA).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; text-align: start; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Cheung is responsible for introducing </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Bruce Lee">Bruce Lee</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> to his master </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Ip Man">Ip Man</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"> when they were teenagers in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">.</span></div>
<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-7304757424534720892017-02-20T18:46:00.006-08:002017-02-20T18:46:59.168-08:00Launch of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina in Brisbane 2010 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Special guest Patrizio Buane with host Alessandro Sorbello at the Launch of the Accademia Italiana della Cucina in Brisbane 2010 </div>
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Patrizio Buane with Anna Maria La Spina and host Alessandro Sorbello</div>
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Pleased to be nominated for Access Community Services Cultural Diversity AwardAlessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-2839485714041457222016-08-02T17:23:00.001-07:002016-08-02T17:23:21.716-07:00ITALIAN FESTIVAL EMBRACES THE COASTMarch 27, 2016<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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Forget the chocolate – Broadbeach took on a decidedly Mediterranean flavor this weekend with an Italian Festival.<br />
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It was an opportunity to celebrate the best things made in Italy, from fine food to fast cars.<br />
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Alessandro Sorbello www.alessandrosorbello.com from Brisbane and Dr Eliane Karsaklian<br />
http://ubi-orbi.com/our-founder takes out Best Research Award at the prestigious International Academy of Business and Economics Conference held on June 16-18 2016, at the University of Florence and Pisa.<br />
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Sorbello has been working on his doctoral research with Dr Eliane Karsaklian who is Paris based director of a trilingual Professional Master Program in International Negotiation at Université Sorbonne, one of the most reputed universities in the world. Sorbello flew to the University of Florence to receive the award and present the keynote address together with Dr Karsaklian.<br />
Sorbello and Karsaklian presented ‘From Lasagna to Lamborghini, Leveraging the power of an Italian Festival as a comprehensive marketing tool: The Case of Italian Week in Australia’ to scholars from more than 70 universities from around the world.<br />
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The research is a case study of the Queensland based Italian Week Festival and explores the marketing potential revealed by the festivals intentional creation of ‘emotional engagement’ with its participants and its subsequent residual effects on consumer behaviour. <br />
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Alessandro Sorbello is the passionate producer and creative catalyst behind Italian Week and has been since its inception. Over the past 10 years, the festival has increased from 2000 people in 2007 to over 1 million people in 2016. These are people that saw Australia’s largest tribute to Italy with “the Illumination” in the heart of Brisbane as 6 major structures including the iconic Story Bridge and QPAC and Brisbane’s City Hall were illuminated in Green white and red to celebrate the Italian national day.<br />
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In 2010 Alessandro was awarded the title of ‘Cavaliere’ (Knight) from the President of the Republic of Italy for the development of the Italian Week festival for the promotion of Italian culture in the modern context in Australia.<br />
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Sorbello explained “The theories we have been applying to the production of the event have been validated and celebrated in Italy and it’s very exciting so looking forward to where we can go from here, well I am especially excited to be further developing the concepts of emotional engagement and presenting our findings to the marketing and event community”Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-83528065476849051112016-07-11T18:21:00.001-07:002016-07-11T18:28:13.842-07:00Interview for EaMMa on Festivals in Queensland <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NXvxuyV313U" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Entertainment and
Media Map Australia abbreviated to EaMMa, is an extensive entertainment
database that maps out and describes different entertainment sectors in
Australia. Here you will find contact info, interviews and descriptions about
many different creative companies. The website was created in 2000 and for the
past 16 years last year undergraduate and postgraduate students at QUT are the
ones that runs and improves on it. EaMMa has been documented to be helpful
towards job seekers and industry specialist, and between October-January 2015,
the site had 6000 hits and the numbers are increasing.</span>Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-18199133999666919772016-07-11T17:40:00.000-07:002016-07-11T18:27:09.056-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). From Lasagna to Lamborghini, Leveraging the Power of an Italian Festival as a Comprehensive Marketing Tool: The Case of Italian Week in Australia. Paper presented at the International Academy of Business and Economics 2016 Florence and Pisa, University of Florence, School of Economics and Management.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(2016c). <i>From Lasagna to Lamborghini,
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The Case of Italian Week in Australia</i>. Paper presented at the International
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International Academy of Business and Economics - 2016<br />
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Summer Conference June 16 – 18, 2016 University of Florence and the University
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Official Luncheon<br />
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<b>Keynote Speakers:</b><br />
Cav. Alessandro Sorbello - Griffith University, Australia<br />
Dr. Eliane Karsaklian - LARGEPA - Sorbonne, France<br />
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<b>Topic:</b> FROM LASAGNA TO LAMBORGHINI,
LEVERAGING THE POWER OF AN ITALIAN FESTIVAL AS A COMPREHENSIVE MARKETING TOOL:
THE CASE OF ITALIAN WEEK IN AUSTRALIA<br />
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<b>Time:</b> Friday, June 17, 2016, 12:15
PM – 2:15 PM<br />
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Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-47931857210042425552016-07-11T17:32:00.000-07:002016-07-11T17:32:55.677-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). Grounded Theory and Emotional Engagement: What do we Learn From the Field? Review of Business Research, Volume 16(Issue 2), pp. 59-70.<div class="EndNoteBibliography" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -36.0pt;">
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Field? <i>Review of Business Research,
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<i>Festivals’ ability to trigger emotional
engagement and its consequent impact on consumption habits in real and delayed
time has not been studied so far. The purpose of this research was to study the
inputs and outputs of emotional engagement as perceived by professionals in the
Italian Week Festival in Australia. The design was grounded on real-life
experiences via a qualitative study based on 32 semi-structured interviews with
professional experts involved in the production and execution of the festival.
This generated key dimensions of emotional engagement. Results indicate that
Italian Week does generate emotional engagement which in turn changes
consumption habits during the Festival and at the same time, enhances its the
residual effect.<br />
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A better understanding of the underlying key components of emotional engagement
can represent a competitive advantage to Festival producers. We contribute with
a conceptual framework for emotional engagement and implications for both
academics and practitioners.<br />
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<b>Keywords:</b> Festival, grounded theory,
emotional engagement, identity, hedonism, typicality <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-26355704861684544292016-07-11T17:25:00.000-07:002016-07-11T17:25:24.836-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). Fun, Culture and Emotional Engagement Increases Sales: The Residual Effect of Italian Week in Australia. European Journal of Management, Volume 16(2), 113-126.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The proliferation of Festivals around the
world can be attributed to the fact that they are highly profitable in a short
time. However, few measures have been taken about the residual effect of these
events generated by the emotional engagement. In this research we outline a
model for emotional engagement (The Emotional Engagement Model – TEEM) which
provides a general framework to understand the impact of emotional engagement
on both participants with high and low involvement in Italian culture. Our
research studied the residual effect caused by emotional engagement in the
Italian Week Festival in Australia through a qualitative study based on 32
semi-structured interviews which generated key factors leading to establish
emotional engagement with Italian culture from which a structured questionnaire
designed for an online survey with 282 respondents was conducted. Results
indicate that Italian Week is able to generate emotional engagement which in
turn enhances the residual effects on post-festival consumption behaviour.<br />
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<b>Keywords:</b> Emotional Engagement,
Fest-Vibe, Consumer Behaviour, Central and Peripheral Route, ELM, Italy,
Culture, Profitability <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-60420108840959487772016-07-11T17:22:00.001-07:002016-07-11T17:22:52.438-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). Residual Impacts of COO in Cultural Festivals: A Case Study of Italian Week in Australia. Journal of International Management Studies, Volume 16 (Issue 1), pp. 45-60.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Week in Australia. <i>Journal of
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<i><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">behaviour while others stated the opposite. However, no research has been
conducted to study the impact of emotional engagement in regards of consumer
purchase behaviour during Festivals. This research aims thus to study COO
effect on consumption behaviour thanks to emotional engagement as well as its
residual effect in the case of Italian Week in Australia. This research was
composed of two studies. Thanks to a qualitative study based on semi-structured
interviews generated a list of key factors leading respondents to establish
emotional engagement with Italian culture. Next, the key factors
generated by the qualitative phase of our research were quantified through an
online survey with 282 respondents.</i></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Results from this research indicate that thanks to COO, Italian Week is able to
generate emotional engagement which in turn enhances the residual effect of the
festival and its impact on attendees’ consumption behaviour. The positive
country of origin effect towards Italy enables Festivals such as Italian Week
to target Italy lovers thanks to marketing activities highlighting Italian
brands and services and developing emotional engagement. This research explores
an unstudied field in international marketing, more specifically in the COO
effect field. Research about COO has focused on products and brand consumption
to date and none has analysed the impact of COO in services, specifically
regarding cultural festivals.</span></i></div>
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<i><b style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Keywords:</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Italy, country of origin,
stereotypes, Italian Week, cultural festivals</span></i></div>
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Case of Italian Week in Australia. <i>International
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studied as being a condition for creation of communities and for shaping
consumption patterns. However, no research has been conducted to explore the
effects of experiential meaning on consumer identification and their consequent
emotional engagement in Festivals. We outline a model for emotional engagement
(The Emotional Engagement Model – TEEM) which provides a general framework to
understand the impact of experiential meaning in stimulating consumer identification
with the culture. A qualitative study generated key factors leading respondents
to establish emotional engagement with Italian culture which were then used in
an online survey. Our results demonstrate the ability of Italian Week in
creating emotional engagement thanks to the fusion of three different types of
identification – self, social and cultural – which we called Multidimensional
ID. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Festival, Emotional Engagement, Consumer Behaviour, Consumer Identification,
Experiential meaning<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-70888235151366972042016-07-11T17:13:00.000-07:002016-07-11T17:13:11.062-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). Everybody Wants To Be Italian: A Qualitative Study of Emotional Engagement Created by a Cultural Festival. International Journal of Business Research, 16(2), 49-62<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12.75pt;">A yearly festival which demonstrated the
joy of all things Italian was developed as a communications method to
reinvigorate Queensland’s waning Italian community. This qualitative case-study
examined the role of a focal point in creating emotional engagement and how
this engagement developed cultural unity by exploring the role emotions play in
the creation of successful festivals. Findings suggest that when both
utilitarian and hedonistic needs of festival attendees are met, the opportunity
to create emotional engagement develops. The success of the festivals use of
engagement produced an enhanced sense of cultural unity leading to a desire to
share and repeat the experience </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">among</span><span style="line-height: 12.75pt;"> the attendees, as evidenced by
increased visitors and an appreciation of what it is to be Italian. This
ability to create emotional engagement is also appreciated in bringing together
individuals with both high and low involvement in the Italian community in
Queensland. </span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 12.75pt;">Keywords -</b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 12.75pt;"> Focal Points, Communication,
Festivals, Emotional engagement, Cultural Engagement, Cultural Identity,
central and peripheral routes<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<br />Alessandro Sorbello Productionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14318244692882425688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843308281352283120.post-11231913106644724382016-07-11T17:08:00.001-07:002016-07-11T17:09:38.935-07:00Sorbello, A., & Karsaklian, E. (2016). Country of Origin Effect on Emotional Engagement: An Analysis of Italian Week in Australia Based on ELM. European Journal of Business Research, 16(1), 63-72.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>We studied the COO effect on emotional
engagement in the case of Italian Week in Australia. We outline The Emotional
Engagement Model (TEEM) which provides a general framework to understand the
impact on COO on the creation of emotional engagement for participants with
high and low involvement in Italian culture. A qualitative study generated key
factors in establishing emotional engagement with Italian culture. Results from
this research indicate that thanks to COO, Italian Week is not only able to
generate emotional engagement but also generate positive COO to attendees with
low involvement.<br />
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<b>Key words:</b> Country of Origin,
Cultural Festival, Emotional Engagement, Consumer Behavior<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Alessandro Sorbello from
Brisbane takes out Best Research Award at the prestigious International Academy
of Business and Economics Conference held on June 16-18 2016, at the University
of Florence and Pisa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Sorbello has been working
on his doctoral research with Dr Eliane Karsaklian who is a </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professor of Marketing and Director Master
Program in International Negotiation at t</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">he Sorbonne University in Paris. He flew to the University
of Florence to receive the award and present the keynote address together with
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Sorbello and Karsaklian
presented ‘From Lasagna to Lamborghini, Leveraging the power of an Italian
Festival as a comprehensive marketing tool: The Case of Italian Week in
Australia’ to scholars from more than 70 universities from around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">The research is a case
study of the Queensland based Italian Week Festival and explores the marketing
potential revealed by the festivals intentional creation of ‘emotional engagement’
with its participants and its subsequent residual effects on consumer
behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Alessandro Sorbello is the passionate producer and creative catalyst
behind Italian Week and has been since its inception. Over the past 10 years, the festival has increased
from 2000 people in 2007 to over 1 million people in 2016. These are people
that saw Australia’s largest tribute to Italy with “the Illumination” in the
heart of Brisbane as 6 major structures including the iconic Story Bridge and
QPAC and Brisbane’s City Hall were illuminated in Green white and red to
celebrate the Italian national day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 2010 Alessandro was awarded the title of ‘Cavaliere’ (Knight)
from the President of the Republic of Italy for the development of the Italian
Week festival for the promotion of Italian culture in the modern context in
Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theories we have been applying to the production of the event have been
validated and celebrated in Italy and it’s very exciting so looking forward to
where we can go from here, well I am especially excited to be further
developing the concepts of emotional engagement and presenting our findings to
the marketing and event community”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Verona, Verona, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Andrea Stombuco travelled widely and was involved in various business enterprises, including stone quarrying at Cape Town in South Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stombuco moved to Queensland in 1875 on the advice of Rev. Patrick Dunne of Goulburn, and may have been appointed Catholic Diocesan Architect, receiving a number of important architectural commissions from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, James O'Quinn. These included St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace at Brisbane (1875–76), St Mary's Presbytery at Ipswich (1876), St Francis Xavier Church at Goodna (1880–81), part of All Hallows at Petrie Bight (1880–82) and St Patrick's Church at Fortitude Valley (1880–82). With his eldest son, Giovanni Stombuco, whom he took into partnership in 1886, he also designed St Joseph's Christian Brother's College at Nudgee, erected 1889-90. Among his more prominent non-Catholic works were St Andrew's Anglican Church at South Brisbane (1878–83) and Her Majesty's Opera House in Queen Street (1885–88).</span></div>
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I'm writing to express my appreciation of the significant
contributions that the Italian Festival Inc. has made to Queensland and to
invite your organisation to consider undertaking a role for the Government's
intended Queensland-wide Italian Week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am particularly appreciative of the Italian Festival
Inc's. work in founding the Italian Week in Brisbane and delivering this annual
week-long festival successfully to a high standard with a strong emphasis on
promoting integration across cultures. I see that your contributions are crucial to
Queenslanders from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and I
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Noting the Italian festival Inc's expertise in staging
professional high-profile events, the particular role that I wish to invite your
organisation to undertake is as coordinator of an annual Queensland-wide
Italian Week. The week identified for this in 2013 is 26 May to 2nd June.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This could be a partnership arrangement between my
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Should Italian festival Inc you willing to consider
undertaking this State-wide coordination role in conjunction with your current
range of events, I would invite you to discuss how we could collaborate on this
venture with our Assistant Minister Robert Cavallucci (phone number 3832 1322).<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have asked Assistant Minister Cavallucci to contact you
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Thank you for considering this opportunity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The “primary consciousness,” the basic mind which knows
reality rather than ideas about it, does not know the future. It lives
completely in the present, and perceives nothing more than what is at this
moment. The ingenious brain, however, looks at that part of present experience
called memory, and by studying it is able to make predictions. These
predictions are, relatively, so accurate and reliable (e.g., “everyone will
die”) that the future assumes a high degree of reality — so high that the
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But the future is still not here, and cannot become a
part of experienced reality until it is present. Since what we know of the
future is made up of purely abstract and logical elements — inferences,
guesses, deductions — it cannot be eaten, felt, smelled, seen, heard, or
otherwise enjoyed. To pursue it is to pursue a constantly retreating phantom,
and the faster you chase it, the faster it runs ahead. This is why all the
affairs of civilization are rushed, why hardly anyone enjoys what he has, and
is forever seeking more and more. Happiness, then, will consist, not of solid
and substantial realities, but of such abstract and superficial things as
promises, hopes, and assurances....<o:p></o:p></div>
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<em>I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious. ~ Eric Clapton</em></div>
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<em>In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost</em></div>
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<em>Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven</em></div>
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<em>Be curious, not judgmental. ~ Walt Whitman</em></div>
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<em>Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~Carl Jung</em></div>
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<em>Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi</em></div>
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<em>A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ Ken Keyes</em></div>
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<em>The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ~Leonardo da Vinci</em></div>
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<em>All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti</em></div>
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<em>We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” ~Thích Nhất Hạnh</em></div>
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<em>All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. ~ Ramana Maharshi</em></div>
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<em>When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. ~ Anandamayi Ma</em></div>
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<em>It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ~ Gautama Buddha</em></div>
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<em>Do not be afraid of your difficulties. Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky</em></div>
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<em>Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren’t even conversations. With them, it’s my way or no way. ~ Whoopie Goldberg</em></div>
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<em>What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears. ~ Alice Walker</em></div>
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<em>If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. ~ Nikola Tesla</em></div>
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<em>Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. ~ Lao Tzu</em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 100%;">The most thought provoking quotes from one of the most game-changing thinkers of all time, Nikola Tesla:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; max-width: 100%;">1. Anti-Social Behavior:</span></div>
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2. My Brain is Only a Receiver:</div>
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3. Think in Terms of Energy:</div>
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4. I Don't Care That They Stole my Ideas:</div>
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5. The Gift of Mental Power Comes from God:</div>
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6. To Me the Universe is a Marvelous Mechanism:</div>
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7. Let the Future Tell the Truth:</div>
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8. All That was Great in the Past...</div>
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