With the rapid development in business and technology, enterprises are now facing competition that is fiercer than ever before. How to assist enterprises in gaining competitive advantage via business innovation and technologies has become a crucial issue. A solution to these contemporary issues...

Sustainability implies the extension of companies’ classic relations outside the economic sphere, leading to the necessity of justification and legitimisation of the actions performed by them and being a premise for organic growth, a concept known as smart growth. This means creating more...

In every analysis of the economic development of Croatia, education is pointed out as a key factor. With the share of highly educated in the workforce of less than 15 percent, Croatia is seriously lagging behind developed countries. Human resource management (HRM) is a philosophy, a way of...

This paper critically evaluates the contemporary tourism development of Sri Lanka. Review of literature was the approach used to build up the core view of strategic myopia on Sri Lankan tourism development. Sri Lanka being an island country with a rich cultural heritage, diverse landscapes, and...

There are hundreds of golf courses throughout the Indonesian archipelago. Those golf courses were originally designed by the world’s famous designers. Most of those golf courses are located in the scenically locations, which allow golfers to enjoy the picturesque beauty of Indonesia. Jakarta,...

The global pandemic of novel Corona has not only brought entire socio-economic structures in to a standstill but has challenged the globalization and global operations of enterprises. Paradoxically, potential repercussions and alternative way outs are yet volatile. However, for a speedy recovery...

The purpose of this article is to develop a quantitative model that supports policy makers in the tourism sector in making socially responsible investment decisions. In particular, this paper proposes a methodological approach to assess the impact of strategic decisions at the policy level, in...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that, all else being equal, for the case of Italy, tourist areas tend to have a greater amount of crime than non-tourist areas in the long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à la Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) and using a system...

The development of standards and certification programs in global tourism has gained importance in consumption-production nexus. The paper is dealing with '€œFair Trade in Tourism South Africa'€ (FTTSA), one of the first innovative service standards with a focus on the social dimension of...

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...