Considerable attention has been given to climate change and its impacts. Agriculture is of special concern as it is the primary source of food and is dependent on weather. There is a wide range of estimated climate change ...

Over the past 40 years, the marketing discipline has evolved significantly, which becomes evident in the current marketing discussion in relation to a service-logic. Marketing scholars are now referring to goods-logic ...

In 1983 Arlie Russell Hochschild published a book approaching the management of emotions in flight attendants and bill collectors. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling discussed the relationship between ...

This thesis proposes an analytic framework of tourism history and discusses its value for a tourist destination’s analysis. Employing a tourism history perspective, the thesis focuses on Koh Samui case study as a reference. ...

It is important to understand how niche markets evolve; how adaptive change is addressed through the adoption of niche marketing activities; and how firms strategically manage the niche marketing process. The research ...

There is considerable disagreement in the literature as to whether the unilateral and nonreciprocal preferences have succeeded in promoting developing countries’ exports. One strand of the literature suggests that multilateral ...

Container terminals have become important components in global logistics and transportation. The continuing growth of container transport is adding pressure to container terminals to improve efficiency. The problem of ...

This is anything but an average doctoral thesis. It takes both the author and his audience on a socially-constructed journey of self discovery. It explores the emotional world of evocative 'heartful‘ sociological introspection. ...

The objective of this research thesis is to resolve the confusion that exists in the marketing literature around brand extension theory, focusing on models that include original brand quality and four brand extension fit ...

This paper is the first to investigate the informational content of model-free forward implied volatility (MF FIV) in energy markets, as previous studies mainly concentrated on model-dependent volatility estimates and used ...