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Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Communities: Negotiating between Equity and Integrity
No full textIn the Euro-Mediterranean context, the concept of sustainable tourism – particularly sustainability related to cultural tourism and cultural heritage – has been investigated at length (du Cros and McKercher,
2022). In general, however, most contributions are rooted in economic and managerial approaches, and often focus solely on the analysis
of tourism flows (Giglio et al., 2019; Bertacchini and delle Nogare,
2021), whereas approaches to sustainability from the scientific field of
Cultural Heritage studies are less prevalent (Roblek et al., 2021; Rasoolimanesh et al., 2021; Loulanski and Loulanski, 2011).
This hints at the existence of an underlying bias in the literature on
the topic, which may derive from the implicit assumption that “cultural” tourism – i.e., tourism strongly rooted in experiences involving
historical and archaeological heritage – may be “sustainable” in and of
itself (Cerruti, 2021; Richards, 2018). Consequently, cultural tourism
is often regarded as “good” tourism by definition. From this perspective, the very notion of sustainability appears blurred, and one fundamental question is avoided, namely: “sustainable for whom?” or “sustainable for what?”. And yet, ascertaining whether a cultural tourism
experience or industry is sustainable for the physical integrity of the
cultural assets themselves, and/or for the heritage communities that
operate around those cultural assets, is crucial
Struggles as triggers in a design-thinking journey
Full text linkThe scholarly and practitioner literatures have both described the potential benefits of Design Thinking (DT) to develop innovations. Innovation processes are widely characterized by continuous competing demands, which generate tensions. The paper analyzes a DT innovation journey, focusing on the struggles and triggers of participants as they work through conflicting demands. Following a qualitative inductive research design, the study reports on the experience of a group of management students exposed intentionally for the first time to the introduction of DT practices in a class setting. The originality of the paper lies in the fact that it analyzes participants' particular points of view, including feelings and cognitions, during the overall process. This angle allows identifying and describing three main struggles and triggers (destabilizing, non-deciding, abstracting) for new adopters in each step of the DT process, which represent a cultural clash with their background. The study contributes to a better understanding of DT by acknowledging its challenges and costs, to be able to apply it as an organizational resource when facing competing demands. Moreover, it aims to provide some initial steps on how to move organizations to a culture based on collaboration and experimentation, able to better cope with innovation tensions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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