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Dr. Adi Weidenfeld
Center for Business in Society, Coventry University, UK

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Journal article
Published: 12 July 2021 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Whereas interregional networks of individual actors have recently received growing attention, networks in terms of collective regional groups of organisations interacting with their counterparts remain largely ignored. This is surprising given the Smart Specialisation agenda's ‘outward looking’ approach. This conceptual paper explores the rationales and dimensions underpinning interregional knowledge exchange, networks and systems including a definitional clarity, a typology of networks and the impacts of different types of proximity. The paper also introduces the concept of the interregional knowledge exchange system and sets a new agenda for studying their structure, formation and evolutionary path.

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Adi Weidenfeld; Teemu Makkonen; Nick Clifton. From interregional knowledge networks to systems. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021, 171, 120904 .

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Adi Weidenfeld, Teemu Makkonen, Nick Clifton. From interregional knowledge networks to systems. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2021; 171 ():120904.

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Adi Weidenfeld; Teemu Makkonen; Nick Clifton. 2021. "From interregional knowledge networks to systems." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 171, no. : 120904.

Journal article
Published: 19 November 2020 in Journal of Destination Marketing & Management
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This study aims to examine perceived authenticity of foreign tourists in comparison to online projected authenticity of an iconic visitor attraction, by adopting a Peircean semiotic approach. Peircean types of signs namely iconic, indexical and symbolic are used to identify perceived and projected authenticity and related cultural meanings of the White Tower of Thessaloniki, Greece. A twofold qualitative research method was adopted by comparing content analysis of on-site interviews of 19 foreign tourists with semiotic analysis of three official websites promoting the attraction. Study findings suggest that both tourists and official destination promoters recognize iconic and indexical authenticity, and that different historical approaches of the attraction influence its cultural meanings. Findings reveal that projected authenticity in relation to Peircean signs is iconic and indexical as promoted by the destination marketers. The comparison of perceived and projected authenticity can help practitioners design and/or improve existing marketing content for campaigns. The consideration of perceived authenticity as the ‘consumption’ of authenticity and projected authenticity as its ‘production’ opens up new horizons in tourism research.

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Pavlos Paraskevaidis; Adi Weidenfeld. Perceived and projected authenticity of visitor attractions as signs: A Peircean semiotic analysis. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 2020, 19, 100515 .

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Pavlos Paraskevaidis, Adi Weidenfeld. Perceived and projected authenticity of visitor attractions as signs: A Peircean semiotic analysis. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management. 2020; 19 ():100515.

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Pavlos Paraskevaidis; Adi Weidenfeld. 2020. "Perceived and projected authenticity of visitor attractions as signs: A Peircean semiotic analysis." Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 19, no. : 100515.

Journal article
Published: 22 July 2019 in Geographia Polonica
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The 1989 fall of the Iron Curtain marked the beginning of new economic, socio-cultural and political realities for the former socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe. Along with the economic restructuring from statecentralised to market economy, democratisation and liberalisation initiated a transformation of the socialist urban space, which was characterised by the changing role of its iconic landmarks. This conceptual paper examines these post-1989 changes, which range between the removal of these landmarks and their transition into market led iconic and flagship attractions. The paper identifies the changing role of tourism from a topbottom orchestrated to a market led activity, which explains the transformation of some of these landmarks. It introduces a new framework for studying this process by suggesting that iconisation, de-iconisation and re-iconisation processes are interrelated to other strategies and approaches to the transition of the socialist urban landscape into a western market economy. The paper identifies avenues for further research and provides some recommendations for improving the management of similar processes.

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Nikola Naumov; Adi Weidenfeld. From socialist icons to post-socialist attractions: oconicity of socialist heritage in central and eastern Europe. Geographia Polonica 2019, 92, 1 .

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Nikola Naumov, Adi Weidenfeld. From socialist icons to post-socialist attractions: oconicity of socialist heritage in central and eastern Europe. Geographia Polonica. 2019; 92 (4):1.

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Nikola Naumov; Adi Weidenfeld. 2019. "From socialist icons to post-socialist attractions: oconicity of socialist heritage in central and eastern Europe." Geographia Polonica 92, no. 4: 1.

Articles
Published: 21 August 2018 in Journal of Borderlands Studies
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Daily intercultural interactions in cross-border regions such as those between customers and managers can be a source of knowledge and ideas. However, such interactions can pose distinctive constraints and opportunities for learning and exchange of ideas. This study adopts a relatively fine–grained quantitative approach to study elements of cognitive and cultural proximity which have a major impact on these interactions. It is based on a survey of 91 managers of small service firms and 312 customers in the twin city of Tornio and Haparanda on the border between Finland and Sweden. Seven elements of proximity were identified and measured. Six elements of perceived cognitive and cultural proximity including values, conservative values towards new ideas, knowledge and use of technology, use of a foreign language, sufficiently focusing or providing specific details and ways of solving problems were found significant in terms of shaping perceptions of Swedish and Finnish managers and customers, which shape these interactions. The results enhance our understanding of how daily cross-border intercultural can be examined in the context of cross-border regional knowledge transfer.

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Adi Weidenfeld; Peter Björk; Allan M. Williams. Identifying Cultural and Cognitive Proximity Between Managers and Customers in Tornio and Haparanda Cross-Border Region. Journal of Borderlands Studies 2018, 36, 99 -118.

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Adi Weidenfeld, Peter Björk, Allan M. Williams. Identifying Cultural and Cognitive Proximity Between Managers and Customers in Tornio and Haparanda Cross-Border Region. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 2018; 36 (1):99-118.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Adi Weidenfeld; Peter Björk; Allan M. Williams. 2018. "Identifying Cultural and Cognitive Proximity Between Managers and Customers in Tornio and Haparanda Cross-Border Region." Journal of Borderlands Studies 36, no. 1: 99-118.

Concept paper
Published: 26 January 2018 in Sustainability
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The complex nature of tourism, its strong inter-sectoral relationships and regional dimension challenge innovation. The advent of smart specialisation, which focuses on regional diversification across sectors, offers considerable and hitherto largely unrealized potential for developing innovative tourism policies within this new agenda. This paper addresses the understudied concept of tourism diversification and its unrealized relevance to smart specialisation, which has emerged as a mainstream logic underpinning EU Cohesion Policy reforms and has diffused into other OECD countries. It provides a theoretical framework for studying product, market, sectoral and regional diversification as well as related variety in tourism. Some policy implications for realizing tourism diversification and for the potential role of tourism in smart specialisation strategies in particular are suggested.

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Adi Weidenfeld. Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation. Sustainability 2018, 10, 319 .

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Adi Weidenfeld. Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (2):319.

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Adi Weidenfeld. 2018. "Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation." Sustainability 10, no. 2: 319.