infonet-economy

Since organizational scholars argue that re source scarcity accentuates dualities’ oppositional and relational nature, we need to know more about whether and how resource - scarce firms can manage paradox . Based on a longitudinal study of 107 Central European turnaround initiatives, we find empirical evidence that even resource - scarce organizations can successfully...

When risk mitigation fails, a company is often faced with one or more crisis events. Crisis can take many forms. A type of crisis, a smoldering crisis, can continue gaining momentum over time, slowly eroding the future success of an organization. This paper uses archival case analysis to look at how two airlines — Southwest Airlines and US Airways — responded to the smoldering...

This paper examines the ratings of 12 influential wine critics on the Bordeaux en primeur market over the vintages 2003 – 2012. We hypothesize that wine experts differ significantly in their rating approach and in fl uence on prices. We fi nd that European critics are less transparent and in general more severe in their scoring than their American counterparts. Experts also appear to...

C o mo se difunden las innovaciones en gestión de recursos humanos (GRH) entre empresas es un tema de gran interés y actualidad; al que , sin embargo, la literatura académica ha prestado relativamente poca atención. El presente artículo utiliza metodología de redes sociales para analizar empíricamente el posible impacto positivo de la participación en...

This study examines the consequences of customer dissatisfaction in upscale hotel. In particular, it is to investigate whether attitude toward a hotel mediates the relationship between customer dissatisfaction and three negative behavioral intention, such as switching service provider, spreading negative word-of-mouth, and complaining.

Television (TV) drama/film production towns have been mushrooming in Korea to cater for the increasing popularity of film tourism. Most of these towns have been constructed by local governments to stimulate economic development, enhance the image and awareness of the region, and to fulfill the political desires of the local government officials. However, in the last 15 years, 34...

This paper examines the effect of family ownership on the amount of firm - specific information incorporated into stock prices . We posit that family firms have incentives to be more informative due to fears of reputational damage and scepticism of minority shareholders to invest in such companies. We investigate this relationship on a...

This study seeks to examine the causal relationships among changes in inbound tourism, economic growth and the real exchange rate in New Zealand from 1987 to 2013. We use the vector autoregressive model (VAR) to tes t the impact of tourism on the New Zealand economy. The variables of interest used in this study are: the index of real exchange rate between the NZ...

Our purpose is to examine why and how employers manage apprenticeships, from both a political and a contingent approach. Four pairs of companies were studied, each pair embodying one of four organizational configurations – machine, professional, adhocracy, entrepreneurial, along with one of four human resource management (HRM) model – codifying, agreement, individualising,...