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Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this...
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This paper examines the usefulness of customer satisfaction to analysts when preparing their earnings forecasts. We draw on theory in marketing to predict how customer satisfaction should be associated with earnings forecasts and forecast errors. We assembled a dataset of companies studied in...
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Due to the introduction of new services, the volume of data transferred in mobile networks is rapidly growing and operators periodically face the necessity to upgrade their network. Such upgrades allow them to increase the capacity and provide adequate Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper we...
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Une entreprise qui fonde sa stratégie sur la différenciation par le haut se doit de respecter un certain nombre d'engagements permettant de légitimer sa position. En effet, sur un marché concurrentiel, un positionnement haut de gamme doit pouvoir se justifier aux yeux des clients par une...
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This study examines the effects of customer satisfaction on analysts' earnings forecast errors. Based on a sample of analysts following companies measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), we find that customer satisfaction reduces earnings forecast errors. However, analysts...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the …
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Esta ponencia tiene como objetivo presentar y debatir algunos de los resultados alcanzados como parte de mi Trabajo Final de Master en Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional (Universitat de Lleida). El trabajo tiene como punto de partida el caso particular del Archipiélago de Las Perlas...
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related to the tourism industry. Two arguments support this choice. On the one hand, as stated by Maskell et al. (2005 … the tourism industry. Indeed, the tourism industry is structured by dispersed activities in nature, time and space that … need to be combined and assembled dynamically. On the other hand, the tourism industry has been one of the most innovative …
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There is currently an increase in the media attention given to yachting harbour management. Some of these harbours have existed since the 1960s and yet, it is only recently that problems have arisen between public and private partners. This paper presents the case of leisure harbours and designs...
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This paper analyses the impact of internet on the organization of industry and the marketdynamics in the tourism … activities, focusing in the European scene. Tourism incorporates many features ofthe contemporaneous information and … communication economy. Even if e-tourism still stands for a smallshare of the whole tourism activity, the paper establishes that the …
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