Given potential abuse, conflicts of interest, and other issues, why do companies routinely pay for their managers to entertain the managers of other firms and allow their own managers to be so entertained? An answer that such practices facilitate inter-firm cooperation is incomplete because it...

The evolution of special events into a free-standing industry is a debatable statement in the academic field literature. From this perspective, the article tries to offer legitimacy to special events industry concept through its framing and argumentative explanation in the economic theoretical...