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Mike Peters is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research spans across social sciences and business, management and accounting, with a particular focus on several interdisciplinary subfields. These include sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, management of technology and innovation, and marketing.

Their main topics of study cover diverse aspects of tourism research, sport and mega-event impacts, family business performance and succession, recreation, leisure, and wilderness management, entrepreneurship studies and influences, digital marketing and social media, and customer service quality and loyalty.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Antecedents, consequences, and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprise digitalization" (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • "Associations between gut microbiota, faecal short-chain fatty acids, and blood pressure across ethnic groups: the HELIUS study" (2020, European Heart Journal)
  • "Tourism organizations' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: an investigation of the lockdown period" (2021, Current Issues in Tourism)
  • "Soft adventure motivation: an exploratory study of hiking tourism" (2020, Tourism Review)
  • "Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: how family firm embeddedness triggers ecosystem development" (2021, Review of Managerial Science)

Mike Peters' collaborative work involves frequent co-authorship with several researchers, most notably:

  • Robert Eller
  • Bernhard Fabian Bichler
  • Martin Schnitzer
  • Andreas Kallmuenzer
  • Carlijn Voorend

Their work has been disseminated in a variety of publication venues, with multiple contributions to journals including:

  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
  • Current Issues in Tourism
  • Tourism Review
  • Journal of Destination Marketing & Management

Best Publications

  • EULAR evidence-based recommendations for cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis

    M J Peters;D P M Symmons;D McCarey;B A Dijkmans

  • EULAR recommendations for cardiovascular disease risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory joint disorders: 2015/2016 update

    R. Agca;S. C. Heslinga;S. Rollefstad;M. Heslinga

  • Antecedents, consequences, and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprise digitalization

    Robert Eller;Philip Alford;Andreas Kallmünzer;Mike Peters

  • The importance of lifestyle entrepreneurship: A conceptual study of the tourism industry

    Michael Peters;Joerg Frehse;Dimitrios Buhalis

  • Towards the Measurement of Innovation—A Pilot Study in the Small and Medium Sized Hotel Industry

    Birgit Pikkemaat;Mike Peters

  • It is all about the emotional state: managing tourists' experiences.

    Alexandra Brunner-Sperdin;Mike Peters;Andreas Strobl

  • Enhancing SMTEs' Business Performance through the Internet and E-Learning Platforms

    Catherine Collins;Dimitrios Buhalis;Mike Peters

  • Family hotel businesses: strategic planning and the need for education and training

    Mike Peters;Dimitrios Buhalis

  • Understanding the relationship between push and pull motivations in rural tourism

    Juho Pesonen;Raija Komppula;Christopher Kronenberg;Mike Peters

  • LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics *

    I. Rao;M. Peters;A. Castro;R. Schultze-Kraft

  • Innovation in Tourism

    Mike Peters;Birgit Pikkemaat

  • The Staging of Experiences in Wine Tourism

    Birgit Pikkemaat;Mike Peters;Philipp Boksberger;Manuela Secco

  • What influences guests' emotions? The case of high-quality hotels

    Alexandra Brunner-Sperdin;Mike Peters

  • Entrepreneurial reputation in destination networks

    Andreas Strobl;Mike Peters

  • Entrepreneurship in tourism firms : a mixed-methods analysis of performance driver configurations.

    Andreas Kallmuenzer;Sascha Kraus;Mike Peters;Julia Steiner

  • Innovation research in tourism: Research streams and actions for the future

    Birgit Pikkemaat;Mike Peters;Bernhard Fabian Bichler

  • Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the case of the hospitality industry

    Mike Peters;Andreas Kallmuenzer

  • Needs, drivers and barriers of innovation: The case of an alpine community-model destination

    Birgit Pikkemaat;Mike Peters;Chung-Shing Chan

  • Tourism organizations' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: an investigation of the lockdown period

    Kir Kuščer;Sarah Eichelberger;Mike Peters

  • Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

    Andreas Kallmuenzer;Mike Peters

  • Entrepreneurial skills in leadership and human resource management evaluated by apprentices in small tourism businesses

    Mike Peters

  • Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism

    Mike Peters;Birgit Pikkemaat

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Buhalis
Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University
Idupulapati M. Rao
Idupulapati M. Rao Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Jacobo Arango
Jacobo Arango Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Noel Scott
Noel Scott University of the Sunshine Coast
Sascha Kraus
Sascha Kraus University of Siegen
Joe Tohme
Joe Tohme Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Guntur V. Subbarao
Guntur V. Subbarao Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Kurt Matzler
Kurt Matzler University of Innsbruck
Georg Cadisch
Georg Cadisch University of Hohenheim

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