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Tale of two cities’ collaborative tourism marketing: Towards a theory of destination stakeholder assessment
No full textA cultural hybridisation approach to reinterpreting the integration-diversity dichotomy: the case of Guggenheim's master branding Bilbao
No full textThis paper explores how urban actors leverage iconic branding as a cultural catalyst to fill the void left by the declining narrative of the nation. The global, deindustrialised service economy raises the cultural politics of the landscape, including heritage governance issues relative to spatial theory. The case analysis unpacks the convergence-divergence dilemma, particularly, how the Guggenheim master-brand transfer simultaneously changed the political dynamics and corroded Bilbao’s sense of place. It contributes to our understanding how a cultural hybridisation approach can help to reinterpret the ‘integration- diversity’ dichotomy embedded in iconic branding, particularly its impacts on urban socio-cultural, economic and political institutions
Cultural heritage, development, employment: territorial vocation as a rationalized myth
No full text‘Territorial vocation’ is a key concept in the literature of tourism management, as well as the link with many other fields of research, such as territorial governance, territorial marketing and local economic development. This work aims to contribute to the debate on territorial vocation and territorial governance processes by giving an alternative vision, called situationist, compared to the prevailing one, defined as unified or systemic approach. Particularly, this paper shows an alternative point of view – called situationist – for the understanding of the processes of territorial governance. In a situationist framework territory is not qualified as a “pre-determined system with respect to the actors” but as a “concrete system built by the actors”. This different paradigm, a synthesis between political and neo-institutional perspective, qualifies territory as a space of games, a place of different interests and different strategies, a place of interaction, negotiation and conflict among actors and their coalitions.
Territorial vocation becomes a “rationalized myth”, an intersubjective construct not assisted by an aura of objectivity and functionality to the interests of territory itself. It is the result, influenced by unintended effects, of the strategic action of a pro-tempore dominant coalition. Moreover, territorial vocation is interpreted as an “institutional pressure”, as a material and symbolic constraint that induces beliefs, practices and patterns of behaviour in the actors of that territory. Putting these different lenses on, a deep pattern of political actions comes in evidence, aiming at protecting the interests of specific coalitions but systematically communicated as functional to the harmonious development of territory in order to pursuit ‘common good’. Then territorial governance becomes a result of a power game based on continuous individual and coalitional strategies. Communication and negotiation processes structure a pro-tempore local order that functions, at the same time, both as product and constraint of human interaction
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Communities as destinations: a marketing taxonomy for the effective implementation of the tourism action plan
No full textEffective tourism management on the local or community level requires an understanding of the peculiarities of tourism on a global level and the effective application of management techniques to accomplish desired results. The need for effective implementation of tourism marketing strategy, particularly in small towns, is demonstrated. It is suggested that tourism strategy should be analyzed at the action, program, system and policy levels to determine its effectiveness. It is maintained that effective strategy implementation is achieved by managing the interaction, allocation, organization, and monitoring of tourism processes on each implementation level. Senior government agencies must continue to develop the necessary expertise and provide support needed for communities and regions to be successful at developing their tourism industry.Source type: Electronic(1)http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=8948259&Fmt=7&clientId=65345&RQT=309&VName=PQ
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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