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Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook, by David Silverman, Los Angeles, Sage, 2010, 456 pp., AU$65.00, ISBN 978-1-84860-033-1, ISBN 978-1-94960-034-8. Available in Australia and New Zeal...

Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook

Purpose – Facing the multiplication of entrepreneurship education programmes (EEP) and the increasing resources allocated, there is a need to develop a common framework to evaluate the design of those programmes. The purpose of this article is to propose such a framework, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Design/methodology/approach – TPB is a relevant tool to model the development of entrepreneurial intention through pedagogical processes. The independent variables are the characteristics of the EEP and the dependent variables are the antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour. To illustrate and test the relevance of the evaluation methodology, a pilot study is conducted. Findings – Data are consistent and reliable, considering the small scale of this experiment. The EEP assessed had a strong measurable impact on the entrepreneurial intention of the students, while it had a positive, but not very significant, impact on their perceived behavioural control. Research implications/limitations – This is a first step of an ambitious research programme aiming at producing theory-grounded knowledge. Reproduction of the experiment will allow researchers to test how specific characteristics of an EEP influence its impact and how the impact differs across several cohorts of students. Those comparisons will serve to improve a priori the design of EEP. Originality/value – The new methodology is built on a robust theoretical framework and based on validated measurement tools. Its originality is about a relative – longitudinal – measure of impact over time and a particular use of the theory of planned behaviour which is seen as an assessment framework.

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education Programmes: A New Methodology

The following bibliography is conceived as a selection of international literature on food as heritage and as a marker of identity within the huge amount of works recently produced on the topic of food. The bibliography has been produced within the “Food as heritage” project, performed at University of Bologna and coordinated by Ilaria Porciani, with a team composed by Massimo Montanari, Paolo Capuzzo, Raffaele Laudani and Marica Tolomelli. “Food as heritage” is part of a wider projec...

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Bibliography “Food as Heritage”

This article presents the first narrative analysis of the areas of research that have developed within the destination marketing field since its commencement in 1973. Given the broad extent of the field, and the absence of any previous reviews in four decades, a key challenge is in providing a focus for such a disparate body of knowledge. The review is structured around one principal question: ‘To what extent is the Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO) responsible for the competitiveness of the destination’? In pursuit of this underlying question, we address a number of themes including nomenclature and the DMO, the evolution of the destination marketing literature, competitiveness as the DMO reason d’etre, and DMO effectiveness including issues of branding and positioning, and future research themes in the field.

Destination marketing organizations and destination marketing : a narrative analysis of the literature

This paper estimates tourism demand in Malaysia based on the key economic factors like income, price, exchange rate, consumer price index, distance, population and economic crisis using a modified Gravity model. The movement, pattern and changes of international tourist arrivals are also examined. A cross-sectional pool time-series of tourist arrivals from Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Thailand, Taiwan and China through using modified Gravity Model was applied. Log-linear equation indicates that the tourism demand is highly correlated with Gross National Income (GNI) of the countries which showing the impact on the standard of living. On the other hand, tourism demand negatively correlated with Exchange Rate (ER) as tourist from higher purchasing power prefers to visit Malaysia. Consumer Price Index (CPI) or inflation rate reduce number of tourist to travel. The increasing number of tourist arrivals was influenced by population growth and distance may reduce tourism demand. Economic crisis negatively affected the tourism demand from the ASEAN countries but positively correlated with the western and other continents. This study clearly indicates that despite of regional economic crisis Malaysian government can still rely on tourism industry as a means of sustaining the economy through international tourists. During the last several decades' tourism has emerged as one of the major industries in the world economy. Tourism revenues have grown to the third largest industry after oil and automobiles. This sector constitutes nearly 10% of the world gross income, 8% of world exports and up to 35% of world trade in services. The number of tourists' journeys increased from 25 million in 1950 to 700 million in 2003, and is predicted to reach 1.6 billion in 2020 (WTTC, 2006). This implies that average annual growth rate of tourism sector at 3.5%, while the growth rate of heavy industry is 3% (WTTC, 2006). International tourism has becoming a major foreign exchange earner for many low-income countries and small islands, and it is a principal export for 83% of developing countries (WTO, 2002). Many countries attempt to develop tourism sector and increase the number of incoming visitors because of several reasons: international tourists bring foreign currency to the host country; tourism sector is much more merciful toward environment than many industries producing goods; and growth in tourism industry accelerates other related industries (retail, entertainment and

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Tourism Demand in Malaysia: A cross-sectional pool time-series analysis

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Local Community Attitude and Support towards Tourism Development in Tioman Island, Malaysia

Responsible Tourism Practices and Quality of Life: Perspective of Langkawi Island communities☆

Community-based Homestay Service Quality, Visitor Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intention

This study aims to examine the relationships between tourism destination competitiveness (TDC) determinants and tourism performance. This study specifically assessed the soundness of the TDC attributes and evaluated their ability in explaining tourism performance.,The Dwyer and Kim’s (2003) destination competitiveness integrated model (IM) was used. Secondary data of 115 nations available from the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and other international reports were also used. The hypothesised relationships were tested via partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).,This study confirms that the core resources, complementary condition, globalisation and tourism price significantly explain tourism performance. Results have shown differences in the competitiveness level and actual performance among nations, highlighting specific limitations of the current TDC model and TTCI report reliability.,Future study could segment the sample base on destinations characteristic and then analyse it based on smaller sub-samples of similar destinations. Moreover, drivers of destination performance in developed and less develop destinations are quite diverse.,The incorrect competitiveness ranking evaluation will affect inward investment decisions. This study framework enables policymakers to arrive at more informed decisions than merely relying on the original competitiveness rankings.,The widespread acknowledgment of the importance of competitiveness for a tourism destination's success suggests that there is a crucial need for sound benchmarking of countries’ competitive capabilities. The proposed competitiveness determinants aid the policymakers in identifying the best competitiveness and tourism performance predictors, as well as how to identify crucial factors affecting the rankings.

Mohd Hafiz Hanafiah

Papers

Tourism Demand in Malaysia: A cross-sectional pool time-series analysis

Local Community Attitude and Support towards Tourism Development in Tioman Island, Malaysia

Responsible Tourism Practices and Quality of Life: Perspective of Langkawi Island communities☆

Community-based Homestay Service Quality, Visitor Satisfaction, and Behavioral Intention

Tourism destination competitiveness and tourism performance: A secondary data approach