Essays about: "descriptive norm"

Showing result 21 - 24 of 24 essays containing the words descriptive norm.

1. 21. Work creates community : the role of tourism activities in sustainable management of common pool resources in a northern european periphery community in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Kristin Rut Kristjansdottir; [2012]
   Keywords : common pool resources; sustainability science; tourism; communities; northern periphery; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this research is to analyze how tourist hosts in Gunnarsbyn, a rural community in northern Sweden, practice tourism and cooperate for sustainable use of common pool resources. The case study is descriptive of the infrastructural and demographic vulnerability involved in the livelihoods of many who work in the tourism industry in peripheral areas of Northern Europe. READ MORE

3. 22. Understanding Tourist Motivation and Behavioral Intention to Visit a New Chinese Beach Destination- A case study of potential Swedish tourists’ intention to travel to Nordic Village of Hainan Island, China

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Che Xiaona; Yang Weiwei; [2011-08-11]
   Keywords : Theory of planned behavior; Past travel experience; Push and pull motivations; Swedish tourists; Hainan Island of China;

   Abstract : In our thesis, we examined the motivation and travel intention potential Swedish tourists to a new beach destination in China. Two models were developed in this study: one named TBE that was based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and past travel experience to explore whether a modified model could predict tourists’ intention of visitation to a new beach destination; another alternative model named PPA was proposed to test whether tourists’ motivation applied in push and pull framework could be taken used as influencing factors toward attitude construction of the TPB model. READ MORE

4. 23. Factors that influence the intention of Swedish people to adopt online movie services.

   University essay from Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling

   Author : Jasper van Helmond; Usanee Gudeerat; [2011]
   Keywords : online movie service; behavioral intention; service adoption;

   Abstract : Title:                     Factors of online movie services that influence the intention of Swedish people to adopt it. Background:      Currently there are very few providers of online movie services.  There are no established or well known companies that provide such a service in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 24. Translation Norms, Strategies and Solutions in Lagerlöf's The Further Adventures of Nils (1911) : A Comparative Analysis of Proper Nouns and Lexical Items for Natural Phenomena

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Elin Bäckström; [2009]
   Keywords : translation; Lagerlöf; English; Swedish; initial norm; domestication; foreignization; översättning; nils; holgersson; engelska; selma; lagerlöf; swanston; howard; swanston howard; pedersen; toury; newmark; shiyab;

   Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to examine translation norms, strategies and solutions in chapter XIII Westbottom and Lapland in The Further Adventures of Nils (Lagerlöf, 1911). In the foreword to the English translation of the novel, the translator writes that some of the purely geographical matter has been eliminated in the translation, and that cuts have been made where the descriptive matter is only of local interest. READ MORE