Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the strategic role of purchasing and model its transformation process based on a case study of a military firm. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the existing literature to highlight the strategic role of purchasing and put...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a new measure called the “culture cushion” to account for the inherent positivity surrounding the inter‐cultural tourist experience. Design/methodology/approach – The first study involved the identification of items for the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is first to describe and discuss an innovative strategy, pursued by a music festival, to reduce the environmental impact by allowing only vegetarian food in the festival area. A second aim is to discuss the effects of the vegetarian strategy for the festival...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of the resource-infrastructure-environment (RIE) index as a supplementary tool to assist policy makers. Design/methodology/approach – This study undertakes a sensitivity analysis (SA) to assess the responsiveness of the RIE...