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...

We review two complementary mixture-based clustering approaches for modeling unobserved heterogeneity in an insurance portfolio: the generalized linear mixed cluster-weighted model (CWM) and mixture-based clustering for an ordered stereotype model (OSM). The latter is for modeling of ordinal...

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”...

Different types of two- and three-dimensional representations of a finite metric space are studied that focus on the accurate representation of the linear order among the distances rather than their actual values. Lower and upper bounds for representability probabilities are produced by...