Zusammenfassung Der Wettkampf auf dem touristischen Markt wird immer härter, sodass Mitarbeiter und besonders deren soft skills zum entscheidenden Faktor für die Gästezufriedenheit werden. Was verlangt dieser Anspruch von den Mitarbeitern, wie gehen diese mit den Anforderungen um und was...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht das Bild der Deutschen vom Gardasee in der Phase der Durchsetzung des Massentourismus in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Gardasee war eine der ersten Auslandsdestinationen und ein wichtiges Scharnier zwischen Bildungs- und Badeurlaub, Alpen-...

Summary This paper studies the relationship between firm growth and external factors. Externalities from related economic, public research and higher educational activities are traced back to specific locations in space. The spatial characteristics of their impact are examined within a...

Purpose – This study seeks to apply ecological psychology's concept of “affordance” to graduate students' information behavior in the academic library, and to explore the extent to which the affordances experienced by graduate students differed from the affordances librarians were...

Purpose – This paper seeks to report the results of research conducted to model the information‐seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University and the factors influencing that behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – The research employed a number of different approaches: a...

Purpose – Studies regarding rational decision have been conducted over many years and one of the common understandings of rationality in financial terms is that investors are assumed to be risk averse. However, in a previous paper, Xu and Dent, identify that property professionals in both the...