The Boundary Work of Commercial Friendship
(2009) Nature~Culture, The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden- Abstract
- With the aim to reconsider lifestyle values in relation to economic rationality in small tourism and hospitality businesses, we focus on the “commercial home” as a site where boundaries between personal and commercial values are constantly performed in practice. Through an interactionist analysis of the narrative of a B&B and gallery owner, we illustrate the emergence of intimacy as a commercial value in the hospitality industry. We analyse the formation of values as a dynamic social process where a traditional market ethos is both rejected and reformulated. We argue that by focusing on the co-creation of value in interactions between producers and consumers, new possibilities to analyse service economy dynamics become visible.
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- author
- Hultman, Johan LU and Andersson Cederholm, Erika LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- value creation, lifestyle entrepreneurship, hospitality
- host publication
- Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
- editor
- Nyblom, Andreas
- issue
- 40
- pages
- 25 pages
- publisher
- Linköping University Electronic Press
- conference name
- Nature~Culture, The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden
- conference dates
- 2009-06-11
- ISSN
- 1650-3686
- 1650-3740
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- b2a67079-6339-41e9-a6e1-c40dcdf15763 (old id 1486019)
- alternative location
- http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/040/
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 12:31:24
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