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Case Study Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Case Study Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: CABI

This book is based on papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure (CPTHL) in Vienna in July 2000. The Symposium comprised papers reflecting the progress in consumer psychology theory and research. The Vienna Symposium put special emphasis on consumer decision making for evaluating choice alternatives in tourism, leisure, and hospitality operations. The reports have been arranged into five major compartments.

The Complexity Turn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

The Complexity Turn

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-02-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book takes the reader beyond net effects and main and interaction effects thinking and methods. Complexity theory includes the tenet that recipes are more important than ingredients—any one antecedent (X) condition is insufficient for a consistent outcome (Y) (e.g., success or failure) even though the presence of certain antecedents may be necessary. A second tenet: modeling contrarian cases is useful because a high or low score for any given antecedent condition (X) associates with a high Y, low Y, and is irrelevant for high/low Y in some recipes in the same data set. Third tenet: equifinality happens—several recipes indicate high/low outcomes.

Market-Driven Thinking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Market-Driven Thinking

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Market-Driven Thinking provides a useful mental model and tools for learning about how executives and customers think within marketplace contexts. When the need to learn about how executives and customer think is recognized, a solution is usually implemented automatically, with no thought given to the relative worth of alternative methods to learn fill the need. Thus, the "dominant logics" (most often implemented methods) to learn about thinking are written surveys and focus group interviews--two research methods that that almost always fail to provide valid and useful answers on how and why executives and customers think the way they do. Through descriptive research, MDT examines the actual...

Tourism Sensemaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Tourism Sensemaking

Intends to advance knowledge and sense-making skills in interpreting cultural, organizational, and personal influences relating to tourism and hospitality behaviors. This title looks at how explicit tourism assessments are being conducted and how to go about accomplishing prescribing and applying advanced assessment metrics.

Case Study Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Case Study Research

Case Study Research Theory, Methods and Practice.

Tourism Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Tourism Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: CABI

This book provides in-depth empirical reports on specific topics within five general areas of tourism management and marketing: (1) scanning and sense making; (2) planning; (3) implementing; (4) evaluating actions/process and performance outcomes; and (5) administering. Offering descriptions, tools and examples of tourism management decision making, the book is useful for students in tourism and management and for tourism executives. It has 27 chapters and a subject index.

Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 583

Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure

This international field guide provides methods and studies on how-to-do case study research in natural settings. This text is ideal for those studying and conducting case study research in tourism, hospitality and leisure disciplines. It provides a comprehensive and practical account of how to describe, explain and predict case behavior.

Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research

Presents answers to the following questions: how do tourists go about seeking high novelty and yet return to the same destination? How do some firms in the same industry end up embracing industrial tourism while other firms reject such business models? How do executive leadership styles affect employee satisfaction in international tourist hotels?

Consumer and Industrial Buying Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552