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Airbnb hosts and their contribution to sustainability through entrepreneurship and consumption:Research gaps and an exploratory study in Nordic tourist destinations
No full textThe entrepreneurship of private households and incumbent companies operating as hosts on the Airbnb platform plays an important role in tourism development. Despite Airbnb’s gain in importance for tourism, the literature highlights its manifold negative externalities, which impair the achievement of sustainability goals. However, the platform also contributes to sustainable rural development through facilitating the micro-entrepreneurship of, and consumption and investment by, rural dwellers through income earned on the platform. This chapter explores this link for Nordic rural regions in a two-step approach: firstly, a literature review will elaborate three research gaps in the extant literature about Airbnb, Airbnb hosts, sustainability, and rural tourism. Subsequently, and based upon this review, an exploratory case study of Nordic Airbnb hosts in three rural case regions (North Iceland, Iceland; Northern Jutland, Denmark; and Nordland, Norway) will highlight the link between Airbnb-based entrepreneurship and local consumption and investment empirically. The case study utilises a sample of 64 Airbnb hosts, gathered through phone surveys in 2022 in the selected case regions. The chapter concludes by summarising the obvious, yet underresearched link between Airbnb hosts and sustainable development in rural tourist destinations that emphasises the entrepreneurial potential and redistributive effect of hosts on the digital platform.</p
Relational Work in Rural Tourism Enterprising: Navigating In-between the Formal and the Informal
No full textSmall-scale tourism enterprises are central actors in the rural labour market as facilitators of job opportunities, sustained business relationships, collaborations, and the development of resilient work relationships. These enterprises navigate in a market characterised by social and economic complexity where work is performed by a diverse workforce. The relational work performed in such enterprises contributes to many of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In this chapter, SDG 8 “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” is considered. The chapter addresses how the resilience of work relationships is performed in practice, and how it can be analysed, presenting a theoretical framework for understanding rural tourism work. Drawing on the notion of “relational work” from economic sociology, the chapter offers a conceptual discussion aimed at developing a toolbox to analyse the boundary work between various types of relationships in the tourism labour market: formal and informal, professional and personal, as well as marketised and non-marketised work relationships. This toolbox captures important nuances in the labour market which are often overlooked. By studying these relationships, important learning leads to a better understanding of small-scale tourism enterprises and their role in rural tourism
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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