Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag betrachtet Gesundheitstourismus in einem regionalen Kontext. Auszüge aus den Ergebnissen der WelDest-Forschung werden präsentiert und aktuelle Marktentwicklungen diskutiert. Ein Fallbeispiel aus Kroatien soll die Realisierung von Gesundheitstourismus in einem...

Abstract Social media platforms constitute an indispensable tool for social movements to mobilise public opinion to promote social change. To date, however, little is known about the extent to which activist and political claims formulated on social media echo what the general public thinks...

The authors present a research based in Spain and carried out between 2011 and 2014 on the social organizations and affective processes involved in social movements. Using extracts from narrative interviews, they explore how participants in social protests cross attachment and technology in...

Purpose This paper explores the consequences of researching temporary protest organizations through embodied ethnography, paying attention to how, when and why a researcher takes sides. Design/methodology/approach The authors employed embodied walking ethnography to study Lyra's Walk, a...

Purpose – This article aims to explore how learning from social movement theory might be applied to large‐scale rapid organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on a recent evaluation by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), this article considers a methodology...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the sociological process behind the development of the American Marketing Association (AMA). It shows how the shift from isolated endeavors to an organized movement happened in marketing, how and why marketing pioneers merged to build a professional body...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how activists of the Spanish protest movement 15M conceptualize organizational practices in relation to the movement’s goals. Design/methodology/approach In order to theoretically understand social movement organizations (SMO), the concept of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how ICT service providers’ strategies affect customer migration. Design/methodology/approach – Using a simulation approach and the agent-based model, this research explores how an incremental technology affects customer migration and...