Pierre-Yves Donzé is Professor of Business History at Osaka University, Japan, and a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.Véronique Pouillard is Professor of International History at the Institute for Archeology, Conservation, and History at the University of Oslo, Norway.Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.

• 1. Luxury Business: Approaches and Issues Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts Part I: Conceptual Foundations and the Evolution of the Luxury Industry2. The History of Ideas on Luxury in the Early Modern Period Christopher J. Berry3. Critical Theory and the Singular Instant of Luxury: On Contemporary Conceptions of Luxury Customer ExperienceJohn Armitage4. Luxury as an IndustryPierre-Yves Donzé5. Luxury, Banking, and FinanceHubert Bonin6. Luxury and the Entrepreneur: A Story of Meissen Porcelain, Harlequins, and Creative DestructionRobin Holt Part II: Producing Luxury7. Luxury Supply Chain ManagementAlessandro Brun and Hakan Karaosman8. Luxury, Craft, Creativity, and InnovationJoanne Roberts9. Licensing and the Mass Production of Luxury GoodsTomoko Okawa10. Systemic Luxury StrategyJonas Hoffmann Part III: Luxury Branding and Marketing11. Luxury BrandingBenjamin Berghaus12. Luxury Brand Extensions and Perceived Luxury: Insights from the Australian MarketNicole Stegemann and Sara Denize13. How to Manage Heritage Brands: The Case of Sleeping Beauties RevivalDelphine Dion14. Consumers' Perceptions and Evaluations of Luxury and Luxury BrandsKlaus-Peter Wiedmann15. Why Luxury Brands Partner with ArtistsAnnamma Joy and Russell W. Belk Part IV: Distributing Luxury16. Department Stores and Luxury BusinessRika Fujioka and Jouko Pitkänen17. The Strategic Value of the Mono-Brand Store for European Luxury Fashion BrandsChristopher M. Moore18. Airport Luxury RetailDebbie Pinder and Joanne Roberts19. Intellectual Property Rights and Country-of-Origins Labels in the Luxury IndustryVéronique Pouillard Part V: Globalization and Markets20. Luxury in the United States and Western EuropeFflur Roberts, Florence Allday, Ayako Homma, and Oksana Malynovska21. Luxury Business in JapanPierre-Yves Donzé22. Luxury in ChinaQing Wang23. Luxury in Emerging Markets: Towards Understanding New Prestige Brands in IndiaGlyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson, and J. P. Kuehlwein Part VI: Issues of Morality, Inequality, and Environmental Sustainability24. Economic Inequality and Luxury: A Critical Luxury Studies ApproachJoanne Roberts25. Consumers, Counterfeiters, and Luxury GoodsGiacomo Gistri26. Luxury and CorruptionTereza Østbø Kuldova27. Luxury Tourism and EnvironmentalismGeoffrey Jones28. Digital Luxury: Toward a Sustainable Future?Sandy Black

The volume is a successful multi perspective compilation of a variety of aspects of the luxury industry.