Considering the significant increase of studies in the hospitality and tourism field that use content analysis as a research method, this chapter aims to describe the research process when the methodology of qualitative content analysis is utilized. Particular attention is placed on the...

Chapter Summary Metaphor is an important concept for clean language interviewers. This chapter describes what metaphor is and overviews the experimental research showing the potential for metaphor to influence interviewees. It expands on the brief introduction to metaphor in Chapter 1 and...

Das Handbuch mit seinen circa 60 Beiträgen bietet eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme der wichtigsten Theorien, Methoden und Forschungsstile der Qualitativen Forschung. Die Autoren aus Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA stellen das breite Spektrum traditioneller Ansätze und neuerer...

Could contemporary urban Japan provide a living example of the 18th Century Italian notion of public happiness? The question is by no means far-fetched. Daily life in Japan is rich in examples of "public happiness," as shown here through a number of anecdotes and examples. Yet Japan's...

The evaluation of collaborative learning is often difficult and time-consuming. As a consequence, teachers’ assessment of collaboration is mostly summative and focused on cognitive outcomes. Based on data that was gathered from a project-based, unscripted course, collaboration was evaluated...

This paper studies how a student's ordinal achievement rank affects performance and specialization choices in university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with a higher rank in their section achieve higher grades,...

This methods case is a qualitative research study whose purpose is to explore social movements' strategies to pressure government for housing rights. It highlights the particular importance of explaining case selection in qualitative studies. In qualitative studies, especially, it is crucial to...

Demographic changes across the world, increasing competition, globalization and environmental problems will no doubt influence the tourism director and lead to greater changes in the foreseeable future of the tourism sector more than ever. Future scientists envisage that the tourism will be...

This paper seeks to show how our understanding of the effects of EPR systems on management accounting are influenced through “nudging” by researchers in their preamble before interviews begin. In particular, we examine how their preamble influences participants and affects their responses to...

Entertainment media industry has been successful in creating favorable image of a destination in consumers‟ minds. Film induced Tourism is defined as “Tourists‟ visits to a destination or attraction as a result of destination‟s being featured on television, video or the cinema screen”...