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The Boundary Work of Commercial Friendship

Hultman, Johan LU and Andersson Cederholm, Erika LU orcid (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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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
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http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/040/
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  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.}},
  author       = {{Hultman, Johan and Andersson Cederholm, Erika}},
  booktitle    = {{Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings}},
  editor       = {{Nyblom, Andreas}},
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  keywords     = {{value creation; lifestyle entrepreneurship; hospitality}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{40}},
  publisher    = {{Linköping University Electronic Press}},
  title        = {{The Boundary Work of Commercial Friendship}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/2957755/1486030.pdf}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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