From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...

Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ('social capital'). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...

In diesem Artikel wird eine Methode zur Gewinnung von Nutzerfeedback beschrieben, die eine Virtual-Reality-Applikation (VR) als Informationsträger für die Vermittlung der Befragungsinhalte einsetzt. Die Methode wurde im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „2049: Zeitreise Mobilität“ des...

Aufgrund aktueller Entwicklungen in der Unternehmenskommunikation, wie eine zunehmen-de Informationsflut in der Werbung, eine höhere Austauschbarkeit von Produkten, ein starker Wettbewerbsdruck und die Veränderung des Konsumentenverhaltens, stehen Unternehmen vor der Herausforderung, ihre...

Purpose: While tourism e-commerce develops rapidly in China, these channels are truly new to both web providers and web consumers, understanding the nature of these media attaches greater importance. This study investigates the mediation effects of flow experience on the relationship between...

The COVID-19 outbreak changed dramatically and altered the attitudes, intentions and purchasing patterns of consumers. This global crisis was particularly notable because of globalization - the interconnection of markets and countries-and its unprecedented coverage by traditional and digital...

A tourism experience is a continuous process. Yet, the following question remains an outstanding issue: How to account for a memorable experience when the experience encompasses periods that occur before, during, and after visiting a destination? Community-based tourism (CBT) allows visitors to...

How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect...