Putting a price tag on cities: Insights into the competitive environment of places

Cities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 133-139

  Zenker, Sebastian ^a   Eggers, Felix ^b   Farsky, Mario ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Network analysis; Place branding; Place marketing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MARKETING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; URBAN ECONOMY;

BERLIN; GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 84871932606     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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