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Networks and Tourism: The Effect of Structures and the Issues of Collaboration

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Regionen und Netzwerke

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In the million years long history of man, language has been probably the most important technological innovation. It has given substance to a basic genetic instinct of sociality, and this unique ability to communicate led Aristotle to state (Politics, I.2, 1253a2-3): „Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity“, which today we often summarize by saying that man is a social animal.

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  1. Lehrstuhl Tourismus und Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

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  3. Fakultät für Wirtschaft 2 – Fachbereich allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Hochschule Heilbronn, Heilbronn

    Werner Widuckel

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Baggio, R. (2011). Networks and Tourism: The Effect of Structures and the Issues of Collaboration. In: Bachinger, M., Pechlaner, H., Widuckel, W. (eds) Regionen und Netzwerke. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6846-3_3

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