Despite the ever-growing importance of intangible goods in today’s economy, little is known about the underlying structural characteristics of intangible goods. This article will address this issue by analyzing some of the dimensions in which one intangible good can differ from another. Several dimensions are identified and they are grouped into three categories: buyer dimensions, seller dimens...

This research examines notions of St Ives’ ‘creative community’, rather than ‘art colony’, to describe the links (and disjunctions) between diverse creative practitioners, communities, places, and spaces in which they operate. Using the Memory Bay oral history archive in St Ives (a collaboration between University College Falmouth, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives Archive, Leach Pottery and Porthmeor St...

Dual distribution systems in which firms use vertical integration and market governance simultaneously are widely used across diverse marketing contexts (e.g., restaurants, retailing, industrial selling). A prominent example of dual distribution includes business format franchising, in which firms (i.e., the franchisors) license the operation of some of their units to franchisees while owning a...

This paper presents a new emerging knowledge and professional field for the design research processes and design practice, which is Cultural Heritage Valorisation, focusing, as paradigmatic case study, on the valorisation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of territories and local communities. The Intangible Cultural Heritage documentation and transmission is socially relevant and, due to its ...

Interpersonal influence and word-of-mouth (WOM) are ranked the most important information source when a consumer is making a purchase decision. This influence may be especially important in the hospitality and tourism industry, whose intangible products are difficult to evaluate prior to their consumption. When WOM becomes digital, the largescale, anonymous, ephemeral nature of the Internet ind...

Methods Participants included 84 children and 60 adolescents (cases), and 94 children and 56 adolescents (controls). Direct and indirect cost data collected via the Food Allergy Socio-Economic Questionnaire (developed by EuroPrevall) from parents of children and adolescents with objectivelydiagnosed allergy to staple foods (cases) were compared to data from ageand sex-matched controls, and calc...

The relation between a firm’s stock return and its intangible investment ratio and asset tangibility is derived under the intangible-asset-augemnted (IAA) q-theory framework. Using firm level data and the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), we estimate the model and three main results emerge. First, the IAA q-theory captures the value premium and the relation between R&D intensity and stock re...

Reconfiguring knowledge management – combining intellectual capital, intangible assets and knowledge creation Tomi Hussi Article information: To cite this document: Tomi Hussi, (2004),"Reconfiguring knowledge management – combining intellectual capital, intangible assets and knowledge creation", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 8 Iss 2 pp. 36 52 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.d...

Using the case of a low cost airline company’s website we analyze some special research questions of information technology valuation. The distinctive characteristics of this research are the ex post valuation perspective; the parallel and comparative use of accounting and business valuation approaches; and the integrated application of discounted cash flow and real option valuation. As the exa...

While estimated losses from disasters are notoriously poor with many real costs hidden or uncounted, it is clear that the global toll from disasters is extremely high. Noji for instance, estimated global losses to be $23 billion per annum, (17) while CRED put the cost of natural catastrophes between 1991 and 2000 at US$78.7 billion per year (2000 base-levels). (3) However, these figures usually...