Ambient affiliates in virtual cross-organizational tourism alliances: A case study of collaborative new product development

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Highlights：

• The paper investigates ambient communities in the tourism sector.

• It relies on ethnographic analysis of information-based products for tourists.

• Analysis makes use of interviews combined with online ‘tells’.

• Togetherness stems from ambient affiliates’ recurrent co-engagement in practice.

摘要

•The paper investigates ambient communities in the tourism sector.•It relies on ethnographic analysis of information-based products for tourists.•Analysis makes use of interviews combined with online ‘tells’.•Togetherness stems from ambient affiliates’ recurrent co-engagement in practice.

论文关键词：Ambient communities,Practice environments,Distributed collective practice toolkits,Tourism alliances

论文评审过程：Available online 17 April 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.03.012