Both personal and business travel have seasonal patterns that lead to variations in the demand for hotels, motels and other accomodation services. This article examines seasonal fluctuations experiences by Canada's traveller accomodation industry in 1996. It then focuses on monthly variations in...

An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were associated with unwashed faces. Prior to a planned trachoma intervention project, a pilot study was done on household decisions about water use and...

An epidemiological survey in rural Tanzania indicated that the rate of trachoma was elevated in children whose faces were unclean. To aid in designing a health education program to increase face washing, a descriptive village study was done to determine water use patterns, attitudes towards face...

to connect to critical stakeholders and, thereby, to integrate into foreign business ecosystems. Reverting to explorative, inductive methodology, the study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by approaching networking from a rare angle; networking as practice. The study examines (i) the...

This paper considers the role of lean product development (LPD) as part of a company's overall innovation strategy. Our discussion contends that the value-concept in LPD is too strongly tied to product features, and that this may lead to: (i) overemphasis on utilitarian value, (ii) preference...