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Tourism strategy making: Insights to the events tourism domain
No full textThis research examines the strategy concept [Hax, A., Majluf, N. (1991). The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall International] in tourism before exploring how different schools of strategy [Mintzberg, H. (1994b). The rise and fall of strategic planning. New York: Prentice-Hall] are applied in events tourism. It then investigates the stakeholder orientations of strategy makers in this domain. While reference to tourism planning is longstanding, ‘tourism strategy’ is often submerged in discussions of destination management and marketing. For this study, a two step, qualitative methodology involving convergent interviews [Dick, B. (1990). Convergent interviewing (3rd ed.). Chapel Hill, Queensland: Interchange] and multiple case research [Yin, R.K. (1993). Applications of case study research. (revised ed., Vol. 5) Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications; Yin, R.K. (1994). Case study research: Design and methods. (2nd ed., Vol. 5) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications] across six Australian states/territories was adopted. Findings show that events tourism strategies of public sector events agencies (within or outside tourism bodies) are mostly reactive or proactive relative to emerging episodes/events. Among three strategy-making frameworks that reflect different stakeholder orientations, a corporate, market-led framework with limited stakeholder engagement was more prevalent than the community, destination-led or synergistic frameworks for strategy making
Network-based strategy making for events tourism
No full textPurpose – Seeks to understand the inter-organisational networks that influence events tourism strategy making by public-sector event development agencies in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodology of convergent interviews, followed by multiple case research across six Australian states and territories, was employed. The inter-organisational relationships and networks of events agencies that impact on their strategy processes for events tourism were the “cases ” in focus. Findings – Strategies of a reactive-proactive nature mostly guide events tourism development by Australia’s corporatised event development agencies. These agencies maintain “soft”, loosely formed networks that consist of relatively stable clusters of intra-governmental and corporate membership with a peripheral, ad hoc membership of other stakeholders. Research limitations/implications – Although the paper studies perceptions of strategy making at a single point in time, it provides valuable insights into the public sector environment, institutional settings and key relationships that impact on events tourism strategies. Practical implications – Event development agencies should consider how the unique requirements of event bidding, event development and expansion might facilitate different types of stakeholder engagement and network formation. Integration of regional, metropolitan and state strategies for events tourism may also widen the network of influence on strategies. Originality/value – The paper informs public sector operatives establishing or managing event development agencies, where tourist generation is a primary marketing goal. It contributes new knowledge in a tourism field that is under-researched
Inter-Organisational Relationships for Events Tourism Strategy Making: Using Convergent Interviews to Refine the Research Issues
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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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