Current forces of change such as the digital transformation, the increasing importance of service and experiential luxury, new customer groups with diverse cultural backgrounds and spending habits or rising expectations with regards to transparency and sustainability, force brands to rethink the way they do business. In some cases, this means quickly building up new capabilities, which often exist outside a company’s own organizational structure and cannot easily be developed or integrated. Luxury ecosystems are considered one way of dealing with the challenges of an ever more dynamic, fast-changing and multi- faceted environment. In luxury ecosystems, capabilities are built in collaboration with partners from the same or different industries that share a common vision. However, the ecosystem approach, especially when actively communicated to the outside world and made part of the brand’s DNA, partially stands in contrast to the more traditional notion of exclusivity and the luxury brand as a bounded, proprietary system shrouded in mystery. Based on a qualitative approach, including multiple case studies and interviews, this study examines the opportunities of an ecosystem mindset for Swiss luxury companies, explores different forms and identifies the success factors and limits of the concept.

As economic growth has occurred in Asia over the last several decades, the demand for soybeans, soybean meal and soyoil have also increased. Over the last 50 years, the cultivation of soybeans in the U.S., Brazil, and Argentina increased dramatically. Consequently, these three countries have become the major soybean producers and exporters in the world. The growth in soybean production in those countries over the years, however, has been insufficient to meet the demand. With the opening of China’s market to soybean and soybean products trade in 1995/96 and the accession of China to that trade agreement in 2001, Asian soybean imports began to increase dramatically. Korea opened its soyoil market in 1991 and it brought about a great change not only in soyoil market but in soymeal and soybean market as well. As imports of soyoil expanded, the increased consumption was covered by imports and this caused burden cost to soybean manufacturers leading to decrease in soybean purchase. Since that time, consumption of Korean soybeans has become stagnant and due to this reason, production of soymeal, which is byproduct of soybeans, also decreased replacing increased domestic consumption with imported soymeal. This implies that market openness of soyoil, has brought negative effect in soybean and soymeal market. As a result, decrease in soybean consumption led to decrease in self-sufficiency of soybean products.

This paper studies upon on the changing mission of world Christianity and interreligious dialogue. This study is an attempt to develop the interreligious dialogue as the new mission method in the changing world. In order to examine the contextual change of world Christianity mission, I used the Michael Amaladoss' analysis. According to him, the theory and practice of mission is in a crisis today. This crisis is the result of two related development: the field of mission, namely the world , has changed; the theology of mission has had a rather than rapid development in recent years. This study has three chapters: the first chapter was to study changes in the world based on the mission and interreligious dialogue. The second chapter intended to explore the interreligious dialogue as the mission method in the changing mission context. It is main chapter of this paper. In this chapter, the factors of interreligious dialogue, the three theological and missiological approaches on the other religious traditions, and the future prospect of interreligious dialogue were studied to assist world Christian churches. The contemporary churches have had difficulty in communicating the gospel in an changing context. This study will provide insights to dialogue with other adherents of religions. It is includes a six new paradigms of interreligious dialogue so that the Christian churches may respond to holistic nature of the gospel through the interreligious dialogue.

Purpose ‒ This study aims to analyze changes in attitudes towards women's political leadership and the social factors related to such changes. The study reviews the field of women's political leadership, specifically the political and economic participation of women in the world, and the impact of variables such as the changes in attitude on such participation. Research design, data, and methodology ‒ The population for this study comprises 99 countries that are members of the United Nations and have participated in the third and fifth waves of the World Values S urveys. The sample consists of 31 such countries selected for sampling. Results ‒ This study is a secondary analysis to examine the hypotheses regression and the LISREL model are used. The findings of the study indicate that the correlation between two variables, namely women's political participation and leadership of women, is statistically significant. Conclusions ‒ The changing rate of women's economic participation is also significant. The significance of these coefficients indicates that the results, with a 95% confidence level, can be extended to all member states.