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21 Feb 2025
Trust and control in guest-host relationships
A new doctoral thesis by Aurimas Pumputis explores how trust and control function between guests and hosts on peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb. The study focuses on how these rel...
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20 Feb 2025
New EU project in the search for sustainable tourism
Tourism’s impact on local communities and their ecosystems is a continuous challenge. This applies when we travel, but also when we eat, stay overnight and the activities we take p...
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13 Feb 2025
Waste as a Critique - New anthology with Hervé Corvellec
A new anthology explores how waste – in all its forms – can be an unexpected but powerful starting point for understanding and questioning contemporary society. Professor Hervé Cor...
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19 Dec 2024
Paying with cash hurts less for the younger generations
Cash in an envelope is a traditional, appreciated Christmas gift to grand children and young relatives. But does it still feel like paying with real money?
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18 Dec 2024
Guest doctoral student share his thoughts from the fall
In connection with our efforts towards internationalization, we have had the opportunity to welcome a guest doctoral student within the tourism field to share his research and lear...
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13 Dec 2024
Social support important for stressed managers
More managers are suffering from poor mental health linked to work-related stress. In a survey of Swedish managers, three researchers at Lund University have examined the question ...
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25 Nov 2024
The future of retail in focus at international research conference
Retail and logistics researchers gathered in Helsingborg in early November to present and discuss the latest research at the ninth edition of the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Confer...
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22 Nov 2024
Impact from the New Welfare Services-programme in Uganda
A half-year after the diploma programme New Welfare Services – Sustainable Service Design as a driver for regional development came to an end some of the participants share how it ...
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4 Nov 2024
Doctoral students from Service Studies on annual writing retreat by the sea
Every year, doctoral students at the Department of Service Studies go on a writing retreat to focus on their theses and strengthen the community. This year, the trip went to Smygeh...
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29 Oct 2024
The Department invites international guest researchers
The Department of Service Studies welcomes Marta Baltruszewicz and Diana Ivanova, two visiting researchers who will be part of our research environment for a couple of weeks. They ...