Towards a comprehensive view of tourism governance: Relationships between the corporate governance of tourism service firms and territorial governance

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 3-19

  Pechlaner, Harald ^a,b   Volgger, Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Destination governance; Destination management organisation; DMO; GABEK; Institutional congruence; Qualitative research; Small and medium enterprises; SMEs; Territorial governance; Tourism governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870695487     PISSN: 14793059     EISSN: 14793067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGSB.2013.050484     Document Type: Article

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