This study uses the first translated version of an established and validated instrument to assess the impacts of an interpretive tour experience on Chinese visitors to a heritage tourism attraction in Australia. The study makes a significant methodological contribution by way of testing the reliability of this instrument in a Chinese cultural context. In addition to its methodological contribut...

information technology has been considered the greatest innovation of the new era because it has a lot of fruitful social economic and scientific impacts. e-marketing joins creative and technical aspects of the internet, including: design, development, advertising and sales. this research aims to design an e-marketing framework by using meta-synthesis method. in order to design and explain a co...

the aim of this study was to identify the recurring themesand to evaluate methodological components of 204 marketing theses(1384-1389) in four selected universities including: shahid beheshtiuniversity (sbu), tehran university (tu), allameh tabatabaiuniversity (atu) and tarbiat modares university (tmu). contentanalysis showed that the most favored subjects in marketing theses areconsumer behavi...

We study the impact of changes in the position of competing listings in organic search results on the performance of sponsored search advertisements. Using data for several keywords from an online retailer’s ad campaign, we measure the impact of organic competition on both click-through rate and conversion rate of sponsored search ads for these keywords. We find that changes in the position of ...

the use of the internet has increased in recent years remarkably. companies employ the world wide web (www) to gather, disseminate and interchange information with actual and potential customers, and then internet technology seems to be served and applied as a strategic tool and affects strategies and practices of a firm such as porter's competitive strategies. many research findings confi...

Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing and Director of the Institute for Social Marketing at the Open University Business School. Her research interests are in marketing practice, marketing strategy, and consumer behaviour, on which she has published extensively. She has written seven books and has published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, European Journal of Marketing, Indust...

for evaluation of iranian onion morphotypes potentials and application of them in breedingprogrames, seeds of 23 iranian onion morphotypeswere collected from east azarbaijan (redazarshahrmorphotypes), tehran (red rey morphotypes), razavi khorasan (red neyshaboormorphotypes) and zanjan (gholyghese morphotypes). these onion morphotypes were planted inrcbd design in four replications in seed and p...