The growing interest in destination competitiveness has focused attention on the definition
and description of a destination product, and how the tourist perceives this complex amalgam …

Theories of social cognition, information processing, and expertise provided the foundation
for a cross-cultural model of venture creation. Using data from seven countries, we found …

Although a key objective of relationship marketing is building strong bonds with customers,
there is little empirical research into the antecedents and consequents of relational bonds. …

Entrepreneurship researchers have yet to explore the full range variance that occurs in
entrepreneurial value creation because we have focused almost exclusively on financial …

This paper evaluates the impact of major natural resource discoveries since 1950 on GDP
per capita. Using panel fixed-effects estimation and resource discoveries in countries that …

Over the past decade the production of tight oil and shale gas significantly increased in the
United States. This paper examines how this energy boom has affected regional crime rates …

Inequality is important, both for its own sake and for its political, social, and economic
implications. However, measuring inequality is not straightforward, as it requires decisions to be …

Do oil booms reduce rural poverty and inequality? To study this we measure rural poverty
by counting people who live in darkness at night: combining high-resolution global satellite …

Feyrer, Mansur, and Sacerdote (2017) estimates the spatial dispersion of the effects of the
recent shale-energy boom by unconditionally regressing income and employment on energy …

Background Despite its variety of potential applications, the wide implementation of infrared
technology in cattle production faces technical, environmental and biological challenges …