Digital Currency and Consumption

Jashim Khan is director of International Business Management at Surrey International Institute, the University of Surrey. He earned a doctorate in business marketing from Auckland University of Technology and a Master of Management (with Distinction) degree from Massey University in New Zealand. His research is concerned with understanding the influence of emerging technologies on consumer behaviour. His work appears in various international journals such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, Association for Consumer Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, International Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, Journal of Wine Research, International Journal of Wine Business Research, International Journal of Online Marketing, Journal of Product & Brand Management, and Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, Qualitative Market Research, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal. Russell Belk is York University Distinguished Research Professor, Royal Society of Canada Fellow, and Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at the Schulich School of Business in York University. His research involves the extended self, meanings of possessions, collecting, gift-giving, sharing, digital consumption, and materialism. He co-initiated the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) Film Festival, the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) Conference, and the Consumer Behavior Odyssey. He is the past president and fellow in ACR and has over 750 publications including more than 30 in Journal of Consumer Research. This work is primarily qualitative and is often conceptual, visual, and cultural. In 2012 a 10-volume compendium of his work was published in the Sage Legends in Consumer Behavior series. In 2023 he will receive a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne with a festschrift and volume in his honor.

1. Money in the Age of Global Digitalization 2. Money in Digital Assets 3. Money in Digital Currencies 4. Psychological Ownership of Digital Currencies 5. Pushes and Pulls in Switching to Digital Currencies 6. The Meaning of Money in Cryptocurrency 7. The Meaning of Money in Digital Game Currencies 8. The Meaning of Money in Tipping Currencies 9. Generation Z, Digital Currencies and Luxury Purchase 10. Generation Z and Irrational Exuberance: Spending in the Present, Speculating and Investing for the Future 11. Digital Currency Issues in the Metaverse 12. Social Currency in the Metaverse 13. Case Study One: Marshall Island’s Sovereign Currency 14. Case Study Two: China’s e-CNY or Digital RMB 15. Case Study Three: Japan’s Digital Currency