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An IPA analysis of green hoteliers' perceptions: a case study of English hotels
Environmental practices impact on operations and customer behavior, and may contribute to employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment and resource efficiency in hotels. This research updates the current green practices implemented in hotels in England, and examined employees’ perceptions of the importance and performance of green practices. Findings from an online...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/10/2017
Studying reflecting on becoming: some philosophical reference points
We developed a systemic process framework for reflecting on becoming that we currently employ to study graduate students’ reflecting on becoming. We describe the process of reflecting on becoming as a systemic process of continuous self-making and discuss some philosophical reference points by building on process philosophy. We conclude that, in order to achieve understanding in a...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
Sustainability: exploring gaps in higher education
This developmental paper aims to demonstrate how higher education (HE) plays an important role in developing their student’s awareness of sustainability challenges and their economic, social, and environmental responsibilities. At present, HE institutions vary in the extent of sustainability courses, programs, and degrees. Further, HE institutions present sustainability topics in...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
Building on the past to create the future: family-advantage and naming strategies in NP introduction.
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
L'entreprise innovante: un objet mal identifié
Cet ouvrage est le deuxième de la série « L'innovation entre le risque et la réussite ». Son objectif est d’esquisser le profil d’une entreprise innovante capable de maintenir et déployer sa compétitivité. L’entreprise innovante, un objet mal identifié analyse les principales caractéristiques d’un tel type de firme d’après la littérature scientifique sur le sujet et des exemples...
Institution partenaire
Français / 26/10/2017
Firm turnarounds in knowledge-intensive industries
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
Optimizing investment decisions using DCF, decision tree analysis, and real options analysis: the case of hotel expansions
Large scale infrastructure expansions in hotels are exposed to uncertainty. Since the costs involved in these expansion projects are high and often irreversible, hotels would benefit from analyses that incorporate uncertainty along with traditional valuation techniques like the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Decision tree analysis (DTA) and real options analysis (ROA) have been...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
Minimizing the cost of capital in hotel investments
In this book chapter, we introduce the readers to typical sources of hotel financing using a hypothetical case-study. First, we provide a commentary on various types of funding sources. We provide rationale for why a particular surplus unit specifies certain constraints to an (investment) manager. A discussion is offered on various factors that may lead to a certain mix of financing...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
From campfire to classroom: an application of talking circles and storytelling in hospitality management education
Native American Indians have used Talking Circles and storytelling as the foundation of oral tradition for thousands of years. In this research note, I describe how Talking Circles were used to encourage safe communication to produce a community based on sharing and empathy. Storytelling helps people solve problems, explain concepts, and marry past experience with future decisions....
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
The (mis)use of social media to communicate CSR in hospitality: increasing stakeholders’ (dis)engagement through social media
Purpose This paper aims to discuss how the hospitality industry is communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) to its stakeholders, the premise being CSR communication through social media platforms will increase stakeholder engagement. Design/methodology/approach This paper is developed based on Schwartz and Carroll’s three-domain approach to CSR motivation, stakeholder...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/10/2017
Corporate reputation rankings 2016: and the winner is?
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
Corporate reputation rankings 2016: : and the winner is?
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
Consumer valuation of Airbnb listings: a hedonic pricing approach
Purpose This paper aims to identify a wide array of utility-based attributes of Airbnb listings and measures the effects of these attributes on consumers’ valuation of Airbnb listings. Design/methodology/approach A hedonic price model was developed to test the effects of a group of utility-based attributes on the price of Airbnb listings, including the characteristics of Airbnb...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
Consumer valuation of Airbnb listings: : a hedonic pricing approach
Purpose This paper aims to identify a wide array of utility-based attributes of Airbnb listings and measures the effects of these attributes on consumers’ valuation of Airbnb listings. Design/methodology/approach A hedonic price model was developed to test the effects of a group of utility-based attributes on the price of Airbnb listings, including the characteristics of Airbnb...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
Teaching HRM in contemporary hospitality management: a case study drawing on HR analytics and big data analysis
In this article, we discuss how hospitality students can leverage new technology and new HRM metrics from a combination of a traditional format case study and innovative data spreadsheets. We offer a teaching case study that combines the strategic dimensions of HRM with practice-driven data analysis anchored in HR analytics and HR big data mining. We argue that this combination helps...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
Addressing knowledge management and providing open innovation for SME's and larger companies in the scope of the Innokick academic program
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
STARMAC: an environment for the stimulation and the development of entrepreneurial projects in academic institutions
In this article, we present STarmac, a program developed by the Swiss Applied Science University of Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD), part of the University of Applied Science and Arts in Western Switzerland (HES-SO) to support young founders in the development innovative business ideas by providing them with the tools for management of market and technology risk. We present the STarmac program...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/10/2017
La politisation ordinaire: analyse de l’impact du contexte public sur le travail public et les activités managériales dans trois cantons Suisses
Institution partenaire
Français / 25/10/2017
VISCERAL: : evaluation-as-a-service for medical imaging
Systematic evaluation has had a strong impact on many data analysis domains, for example, TREC and CLEF in information retrieval, ImageCLEF in image retrieval, and many challenges in conferences such as MICCAI for medical imaging and ICPR for pattern recognition. With Kaggle, a platform for machine learning challenges has also had a significant success in crowdsourcing solutions....
Institution partenaire
English / 23/10/2017
Starkes Online-Plus bei Schweizer Hotel-Buchungen
Institution partenaire
English / 23/10/2017
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