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Business and Management
Australia
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
83
Citations
24207
World Ranking
139
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2019 - Australian Laureate Fellow

Overview

Sara Dolnicar is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research intersects multiple disciplines including social sciences, business management and accounting, and environmental science, as reflected in their extensive publication record.

The major fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Environmental Science

Key subfields emphasized in their research are:

  • Marketing
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Applied Psychology
  • Automotive Engineering

Central topics addressed in their research include:

  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability

Sara Dolnicar has contributed to academic literature through various papers, with recent publications including:

  • "A review of experiments in tourism and hospitality" (2020) published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • "COVID19 and Airbnb - Disrupting the Disruptor" (2020) published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • "Habit drives sustainable tourist behaviour" (2021) published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • "Progress in field experimentation for environmentally sustainable tourism - A knowledge map and research agenda" (2022) published in Tourism Management
  • "When sustainability backfires: A review on the unintended negative side-effects of product and service sustainability on consumer behavior" (2022) published in Psychology and Marketing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sara Dolnicar include:

  • Bettina Grün
  • Sarah MacInnes
  • Danyelle Greene
  • Melanie Randle
  • Anna Kristina Zinn

Highly frequented publication venues are:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights
  • Tourism Review
  • Tourism Management

In addition to journal articles, Sara Dolnicar has authored books published by University of Trento, including "Letter from Anna Irimias" (2022).

Their work has been recognized with awards such as the Australian Laureate Fellow in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the Prerequisite of Successful CSR Implementation: Are Consumers Aware of CSR Initiatives?

    Alan Pomering;Sara Dolnicar

  • The attitude-behaviour gap in sustainable tourism

    Emil Juvan;Sara Dolnicar

  • The contribution of vacations to quality of life

    Sara Dolnicar;Venkata Yanamandram;Katie Cliff

  • A review of data-driven market segmentation in tourism

    Sara Dolnicar

  • Environment-friendly Tourists: What Do We Really Know About Them?

    Sara Dolnicar;Geoffrey I. Crouch;Patrick Long

  • Beyond “Commonsense Segmentation”: A Systematics of Segmentation Approaches in Tourism

    Sara Dolničar

  • An examination of indexes for determining the number of clusters in binary data sets

    Evgenia Dimitriadou;Sara Dolnicar;Andreas Weingessel

  • A review of experiments in tourism and hospitality.

    Giampaolo Viglia;Sara Dolnicar

  • Desalinated versus recycled water: Public perceptions and profiles of the accepters

    Sara Dolnicar;Andrea I. Schäfer

  • Market segmentation in tourism.

    Sara Dolnicar

  • Heterogeneity in risk and safety perceptions of international tourists

    Cláudia Seabra;Sara Dolnicar;José Luís Abrantes;Elisabeth Kastenholz

  • Understanding barriers to leisure travel - tourist fears as a marketing basis

    Sara Dolnicar

  • Which Hotel attributes Matter? A review of previous and a framework for future research

    Sara Dolnicar;T. Otter

  • Environmentally Friendly Behavior: Can Heterogeneity Among Individuals and Contexts/ Environments Be Harvested for Improved Sustainable Management?

    Sara Dolnicar;Bettina Grün

  • Selective marketing for environmentally sustainable tourism

    Sara Dolnicar;Friedrich Leisch;Friedrich Leisch

  • Marketing in non‐profit organizations: an international perspective

    Sara Dolnicar;Katie Lazarevski

  • When public opposition defeats alternative water projects -The case of Toowoomba Australia

    Anna Hurlimann;Sara Dolnicar

  • What affects public acceptance of recycled and desalinated water

    Sara Dolnicar;Anna Hurlimann;Bettina Grün;Bettina Grün

  • Challenging “Factor–Cluster Segmentation”

    Sara Dolnicar;Bettina Grün

  • COVID19 and Airbnb - Disrupting the Disruptor

    Sara Dolnicar;Samira Zare

  • Measuring environmentally sustainable tourist behaviour.

    Emil Juvan;Emil Juvan;Sara Dolnicar

  • Quality of life and travel motivations: integrating the two concepts in the Grevillea Model

    Sara Dolnicar;Katie Lazarevski;Venkata Yanamandram

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich Leisch
Friedrich Leisch BOKU University
John R. Rossiter
John R. Rossiter University of Wollongong
Geoffrey I. Crouch
Geoffrey I. Crouch La Trobe University
Timothy M. Devinney
Timothy M. Devinney University of Manchester
Jordan J. Louviere
Jordan J. Louviere University of South Australia
Harmen Oppewal
Harmen Oppewal Monash University
Joseph Ciarrochi
Joseph Ciarrochi Australian Catholic University
Ulrike Gretzel
Ulrike Gretzel University of Southern California
Andrea I. Schäfer
Andrea I. Schäfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Jay Polonsky
Michael Jay Polonsky Deakin University

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