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“Couchsurfing has made me a better person and the world a better place”:the transformative power of collaborative tourism experiences
No full textPresented as an alternative form of tourism, Couchsurfing is a predominantly non-commercial accommodation type where hosts offer a “couch” to travelers through a hospitality network. Couchsurfing.com is considered as an icon of the sharing economy and more specifically of shareable tourism. This article provides a deeper understanding of couchsurfers’ motivations and shared values. Through an empirical qualitative study, we discuss the transformative power of Couchsurfing experiences, the underlying transformational processes, conditions, and socio-psychological and behavioral consequences. We also discuss the findings’ implications for society, businesses, and tourism in general.</p
La consommation collaborative:Enjeux et défis de la nouvelle société du partage
No full textDepuis quelques années, l’économie collaborative, souvent qualifiée d’économie du partage, connaît un succès fulgurant, bousculant les principes traditionnels de l’économie basés sur l’acquisition d’un bien. Cette consommation collaborative est née de la conjoncture de plusieurs facteurs incluant les nouvelles technologies qui facilitent le contact entre les individus, la baisse des ressources face à la crise économique, mais aussi les évolutions sociales et un certain militantisme suite aux changements des valeurs de la génération « Y »
La consommation collaborative:Enjeux et défis de la nouvelle société du partage
No full textDepuis quelques années, l’économie collaborative, souvent qualifiée d’économie du partage, connaît un succès fulgurant, bousculant les principes traditionnels de l’économie basés sur l’acquisition d’un bien. Cette consommation collaborative est née de la conjoncture de plusieurs facteurs incluant les nouvelles technologies qui facilitent le contact entre les individus, la baisse des ressources face à la crise économique, mais aussi les évolutions sociales et un certain militantisme suite aux changements des valeurs de la génération « Y »
Redirection theory and antisocial travel behavior : configural antecedents to nascent road-road signaling
No full text© 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited. The focus of this study is on analyzing influencing factors of antisocial travel-related behaviors - in particular road rage. Building on the concept of redirection, the current chapter develops a theory of natural and planned redirection to derive starting points for demarketing antisocial behaviors. A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) with survey data from 6,811 consumers from the DDB Life Style Study is used to gain insights into the individuals behind road rage. Results show that specific kinds of anti- and prosocial behavior associate with high and low levels of road rage, respectively. The study finds that these prosocial behaviors may function as natural redirection mechanisms and prevent or reduce road rage. Thereby, the findings extend previous analyses of road rage and allow for deriving theoretical and policy implications
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
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