Purpose: To date, researchers examining the motivations of volunteers at festivals and events have used a range of measurement indexes, most of which appear to have common antecedents in the psychology literature. It is not clear if different events actually require different scales, or if...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing the performing arts as one element in changing the destination image of the Macau special administrative region from that of the Las Vegas of the East to a “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure”. The context is of particular...

Purpose Academic studies have sought to understand the motivations of festival and event attendees usually through single-event case studies. This approach has failed to generate a generalizable set of motivation items. In addition, there is increasing criticism in the literature of the common...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an extension of a previous study by the author into compliance by Islamic banks in Bahrain with accounting standards issued by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). Design/methodology/approach –...

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are typically linked with the foundations of political economy, while at the same time, Locke’s teaching is regarded as differing substantively from that of Hobbes. Locke, in fact, differs from Hobbes on only one substantive issue, that of the political regime most...

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate the pivotal role played by Thomas Hobbes in the displacement of political philosophy by economic science. Design/methodology/approach – The focus of the paper is an analysis of Hobbes' most clear and accessible work, The Leviathan . Findings – The...