TY - BOOK AU - Mathews,Ryan AU - Wacker,Watts TI - The deviant's advantage: how fringe ideas create mass markets SN - 0609609580 AV - HF5415 .M33645 2002 U1 - 658 22 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Crown Business KW - New products KW - Marketing KW - Business forecasting KW - Originality KW - Economic aspects KW - Technological innovations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index; Greetings, fellow deviants -- From freak to chic -- From chic to bleak -- The abolition of context and the post-information age -- Schwinns to cyberspace -- Words without meeting -- Art : a trap with no exit -- Science and the death of objective reality -- Seeing and believing, war and more -- The deviant economy -- Corporate cultures -- The understanding and care of the deviant consumer -- Deviant marketing for deviant markets -- The deviant product -- The deviant brand -- The deviant's toolbox -- Making deviance work for you ER -