In an empirical study of both sides of the sponsorship dyad, a number of key antecedents to sponsors’ renewal intentions were examined. The study involved all sponsors and clubs of a leading Australian sport property. Sponsors’ market orientation was found to be a positive factor: it influenced non-economic satisfaction which, in turn, determined sponsors’ renewal intentions. On the other hand,...

In his writing, analyses, and commentaries, Walter Isard contributed significantly to economic geography, inspiring a generation of economic geographers with seminal texts on industrial location and spatial economics and methods of regional analysis – a line of argumentation that explicitly incorporated abstract economic reasoning into an otherwise largely descriptive and inventory-based subdis...

This study examines one of the unintended consequences of ICT investments in developing economies. Although ICT has helped developing countries create links with the global marketplace, which in turn has stimulated economic growth during the good times, it has also synchronized these economies such that the global economic crisis has also affect them. This paper specifically studies the questio...

The relation between market diversity and market efficiency has been studied. Economic heterogeneity is a fundamental driving force and an essential property in the economic systems. People who have different perspectives, technologies, or endowments may benefit from their trading behavior which constitutes economic activities. In this paper, economic simulation based on the growing field of ar...

The post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union introduced, at least initially, political and economic reforms simultaneously. This paper explores the consequences of simultaneous implementation of economic and political liberalisation for economic growth. It is found that democracy indeed had a negative marginal effect on growth during early phases of transition (199...

In this article, I reflect upon and attempt to understand the changing theoretical nature of post–World War II Anglo-American economic geography. In particular, I contrast the kind of theorizing that first occurred in the discipline during the 1950s with the very different kind now carried out under what has been called the “cultural turn” or the “new economic geography.” I argue that, during t...

Experimental turn by turn beam position measurements were performed in order to investigate the non-linear beam dynamics in Super-ACO. The aim of these experiments is to get a better understanding of the aperture limiting effects of non-linearities and to check the model used in tracking studies. The amplitudedependent tune shift measurements allow to highlight a strong octupolar-like component...

Location based applications have gained much attention in recent years mainly with the advent of mobile devices such as smart-phones, PC-tablets, and netbooks. These devices facilitate the position data collection and allows some applications to make use of this data. For instance, mobile search is taking advantage of the local information to improve the user experience. Among the most common l...