The exploration of food tourism as a phenomenon and food tourists as consumers raises numerous ethical considerations. This chapter is about food tourism and ethics and focuses on the concepts of sustainability and slowness. It discusses the complexity of such topics using two case studies from Italy: one a plant-based café and the other the owner and manager of an agritourism business. These cases ...

The recent climate crisis has solemnized renewable energy for emission reduction and halting an environmental disaster globally. However, renewable energy technologies are severely dependent on the import of critical minerals and elements that can be severely impacted by energy policy uncertainties (ERPU). Germany highly relies on renewables for powering economic activities and is the largest ...

Although empathy is a crucial component of sustainability, the literature on relevant teaching practices within business education remains limited. Aiming to encourage critical thinking regarding stakeholders, we introduced a teaching practice structured around three activities—an innovation camp, a seminar, and a game-based workshop—in an introductory course about innovation. Data collection ...

The Finnfjord algae project has been labelled a carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) project as it holds significant promise in converting CO2 into biomass. Distinct from carbon capture and storage (CCS), which focuses solely on trapping and storing CO2 in underground geological formations, CCU goes a step further, presenting an economic incentive through the potential monetisation of products, ...

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In the robonomic economic system many tourism and hospitality companies will be completely automated, and some of them may not even have any human employees. It means that we must rethink the way tourism attractions are created, the way tourism experiences are designed, and the practices of tourism and hospitality companies. We need to consider how to cater for tourists in ways that prove viable ...

Artikkelen sammenlikner forvaltninga av to områder i Nordreisa og friluftsaktiviteter som foregår der. Det ene er Reisaelva med laksefiske, mens det andre er Kjellerskogen hvor det inntil nylig foregikk hundespanntrening samtidig som skogen i lang tid har blitt benyttet til sauebeite. Det har tidvis vært konflikter knyttet til begge områdene. For elva ble det opprettet et regime som styrer aktivitetene. ...

Purpose - This paper aims to show the impact of applied visual management (VM) on performance in logistics operations in the construction industry.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - A case study was conducted at a branch of an international company located in Poland on VM implementation in the transport and storage of this firm. Active research was used to include the outlook of top management ...

This article explores how top and middle managers in geographically fragmented professional service organizations made decisions about hybrid work arrangements, following COVID-19 (and the end of mandatory working from home). The article reports a single case study of a regional banking corporation in a period when leaders across the organization had to choose between consolidating change or ...

This thesis investigates the application of machine learning (ML) and traditional financial models in portfolio optimization, focusing on the OBX index. The research aims to determine whether ML algorithms can outperform traditional models in forecasting returns, estimating volatility, and optimizing portfolio weights. The study employs advanced ML techniques such as Random Forest, Support Vector ...