These remarks were prepared for the Multistate Tax Commission's State and Local Business Tax Symposium at American University. The panel addressed the pressure on state and local officials to adopt tax incentives to prevent businesses from leaving their jurisdiction or to attract new business....

1. Introduction / Michelle McLeod and Roger Vaughan -- 2. Tourism-planning network knowledge dynamics / Dianne Dredge -- 3. Social network dynamics and innovation in small tourism companies / Flemming Sørensen and Lars Fuglsang -- 4. Tourism networks, knowledge dynamics and co-creation / Gareth...

New modes of project delivery : complex projects -- Understanding the challenges of managing complex projects -- Exploring complex projects -- Clarke chapman: the port facilities project -- Alstom : the Pendolino project -- Northumbria water : the regional sludge treatment centre project -- The...

"The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses,...