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Tourism and cultural identity tourisme et identite culturelle tourismus und kulturelle identität: Cultural identity

Müller, Hansruedi; Thiem, Marion - In: The Tourist Review 50 (1995) 4, pp. 14-19

This article risks the attempt to move the discussion of culture and tourism onto a broader basis. It replaces a rigid conception of culture with a dynamic model and starts from a framing premise of empathy rather than cultural pessimism. It uses an extended explanatory model of tourism to seek...

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The dialogue of school exchanges with the tourism system

Macchiavelli, Andrea - In: The Tourist Review 52 (1997) 1, pp. 34-40

Generally, school exchanges in foreign countries are not understood as a tourism phenomenon. From the statistical point of view, these stages of visiting student abroad, normally for a period of a week, are clearly defined as tourism. The motivations which lead to undertake an exchange...

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Accounting's role in promoting social change: a guest editorial

Bell, Janice; Hoque, Zahirul - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8 (2012) 3, pp. 249-256

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present a snapshot review of the papers accepted for publication in this special issue of the 2010 Global Accounting and Organizational Change (GAOC) conference which was held in July, 2010 at Babson College, USA. Design/methodology/approach – A...

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Entrepreneurship research

Landström, Hans - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 9 (2008) 2, pp. 301-322

Purpose – A great deal of policy thinking in the last ten to 15 years has been driven by the insights gained from the so‐called “new growth theory”. The theory emphasizes that investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth through spillover of knowledge, and the...

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Burnout: 35 years of research and practice

Schaufeli, Wilmar B.; Leiter, Michael P.; Maslach, Christina - In: Career Development International 14 (2009) 3, pp. 204-220

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the career of the burnout concept itself, rather than reviewing research findings on burnout. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an overview of the concept of burnout. Findings – The roots of the burnout concept seem to be...

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Social responsibility: the most important, and neglected, problem of all?

Trainer, Ted - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 8, pp. 682-703

Purpose – To draw attention to an important but neglected topic, and provide an analysis that will help others to go further into key elements of the theme of social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach – A review of themes previously encountered in a diverse literature. Findings –...

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What is “the alcohol problem”?

Pratten, John D. - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 1 (2009) 2, pp. 88-96

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the problems which exist in the excessive use of alcohol and to consider the origins of these problems to determine if they are new or long established. Design/methodology/approach – There is a heavy use of secondary sources drawn from the...

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China's exchange rate policy and fiscal expansion

McKinnon, Ronald I. - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 2 (2009) 2, pp. 81-85

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of China's exchange rate policy and fiscal expansion …. Findings – The paper finds that there is a good economic rationale for China's wanting to keep the yuan/dollar rate stable …

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China's pattern of trade and growth after WTO accession

Zhao, Longyue; Wang, Yan - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 2 (2009) 3, pp. 178-210

Purpose – World Trade Organization (WTO) accession marked a new beginning for China's economic, legal and institutional … reforms and rapid integration with the rest of the world. The purpose of this paper is to review China's post‐WTO transition … experience, synthesize and update studies on China's pattern of trade and structural transformation, and provide both positive …

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Distribution of FDI across China – common policies but differing impacts by region

Foster, M. John - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 2, pp. 125-138

(FDI) into China may have very different impacts. The paper looks at: patterns of FDI across China and other key, emerging … nations; FDI patterns across the three declared, developmental regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC); and the … the relevant countries and of the China's three designated development regions. The problem of differing, and unexpected …

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