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Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling: testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data
This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability with survey data and a randomized labeling treatment. Based on a sample of more than 300 individuals, it assesses the effect on acceptability of specific policy designs and individuals’ perceptions of carbon taxes advantages and disadvantages. We find that the lack of perception of primary and ancillary benefits is one of…
Institution partenaire
English / 20/04/2016
Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling: : testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data
This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability with survey data and a randomized labeling treatment. Based on a sample of more than 300 individuals, it assesses the effect on acceptability of specific policy designs and individuals’ perceptions of carbon taxes advantages and disadvantages. We find that the lack of perception of primary and ancillary benefits is one of…
Institution partenaire
English / 20/04/2016
Effectiveness, earmarking and labeling ::testing the acceptability of carbon taxes with survey data
This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability with survey data and a randomized labeling treatment. Based on a sample of more than 300 individuals, it assesses the effect on acceptability of specific policy designs and individuals’ perceptions of carbon taxes advantages and disadvantages. We find that the lack of perception of primary and ancillary benefits is one of…
Institution partenaire
English / 20/04/2016
Understanding the impact of online reviews on hotel performance: : an empirical analysis
Understanding consumers' needs and wants has been a major source of success for hotel organizations. Notwithstanding, investigating the valence of online reviews and modeling hotel attributes and performance is still a rather novel approach. Using partial least squares path modeling, Swiss country-level data for online reviews from 68 online platforms, together with data from…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/04/2016
The impact of corporate social responsibility communication on corporate reputation
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly more important for firms in today' s global marketplace. Thus effective communication of a company's CSR initiatives is vital toward enhancing a company's reputation and in tum, its sales revenues. With this consideration, the corporate reputations of firms in the Aerospace and Defense (A & D) industry…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/04/2016
Spiritual tourism in goa
Spiritual Tourism is the largest tourist sector in India: more than 70% of the domestic tourist movement is for the religious purposes and 20% of the revenue in tourism industry is generated by religious tourism (Dewan et al, 2008). Religious tourism is one of the oldest forms of travelling and for centuries people have travelled in order to seek peace. Past research in spiritual…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/04/2016
Maximizing online bookings through a multi-channel-strategy: : effects of interdependencies and networks
Purpose – Hotel managers are being challenged by the increasing multitude of distribution and sales channels. Online travel agencies (OTAs) in particular generate a great deal of uncertainty: Which are the best ones? Which ones offer the best conditions? How many channels are optimal for my hotel? How can I evaluate costs versus benefits? These and other questions concerning the…
Institution partenaire
English / 12/04/2016
Hotels’ dependency on online intermediaries and their chosen distribution channel portfolios: : three country insights
New intermediaries are entering the market, challenging the hospitality industry to find an appropriatedistribution channel portfolio. This research investigates how many channels hotels in Austria, Germanyand Switzerland choose and what role the various channels play. Findings based on 1014 questionnairesreveal an average mix of 8.06 offline and online channel categories.…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/04/2016
An examination of factors influencing attitude towards tourism in Goa
To strategically utilize resources to minimize the negative impacts of tourism and increasing the social support for tourism development, the present study examined the residents of six talukas of North Goa by using the model developed by Perdue et al. (1990); later extended by Mc Gehee, et al. (2002); and also based on social exchange theory; tried to determine whether personal…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/04/2016
The business model innovation in practice and its implications for entrepreneurship research
While business model innovations are critical to a company’s long-term survival, they are still poorly understood compared with other kinds of innovations. In this paper, we systematically investigate prior research and reframe business model innovation. We report on a discourse analysis of interviews with CEOs of small and medium enterprises from the tech industry, with the aim of…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/04/2016
Identifying with the firm: : effects on creative outcomes in open innovation
Research has shown that individuals' level of identification with an organization tends to result in positive outcomes such as higher motivation and effort. However, the influence of organizational identification on another vital element of organizational life, creativity, has hitherto largely been ignored. We study identification and creativity in the context of open innovation…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/04/2016
Linking internationalization age and speed in Swiss SMEs
Academic research is currently paying more attention to the time and speed aspects of the internationalization process. In line with this development, this study investigates the role of internationalization age and its impact on internationalization speed. It investigates as the main research problem the very impact that early versus late internationalization has on foreign sales’…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/04/2016
Entrepreneurial behavior and SME internationalization: : conceptualizing the dynamics of international entrepreneurship
This paper contributes to existing research by integrating the notions of opportunity recognition and international entrepreneurial orientation into the body of the new venture theory of internationalization. It helps to explain and understand which factors compel SMEs to take the fast track to internationalization or a stage-wise approach. A conceptual framework is developed that…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/04/2016
Business model innovation in incumbent firms: : a practitioners’ perspective and implications for entrepreneurship research
While business model innovations are critical to a company’s long-term survival, they are still poorly understood compared with other kinds of innovations. In this paper, we systematically investigate prior research and reframe business model innovation. We report on a discourse analysis of interviews with CEOs of small and medium enterprises from the tech industry, with the aim of…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/04/2016
Optimizing satisfaction in a multi-courses allocation problem
The resource allocation problem is a traditional kind of NPhard problem. One of its application domains is the allocation of educational resources. In most universities and business schools today, students select the courses they would like to attend by ranking the proposed courses. However, to ensure the quality of a course, the number of seats is limited, so not all students can…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/04/2016
How to manage IS team coordination in real time: : a process approach to coordination
The current research in progress manuscript proposes a shift to a new approach to team coordination in IS projects. Previous studies have regarded team coordination through variance analyses. They identified explicit and implicit coordination mechanisms that are significantly related to team coordination, depending on some contingencies (e.g. team and task…
Institution partenaire
English / 02/04/2016
A unified framework for risk-based investing
Risk-based portfolio strategies, such as minimum variance, maximum diversification, equal weight and risk parity, to name the most famous, have become increasingly popular in the investment industry. This paper aims to help investors better understand the commonalities and differences between these strategies.We offer a general unifying analytical framework, allowing the discussion…
Institution partenaire
English / 02/04/2016
Interviewing practices among recruiters in the hospitality industry: : how valid are they?
Selecting the right people for the right place the right way is vital to companies in the context of a fiercer war for talent nowadays. Many studies have shown that structured interviews have better predictive validity than unstructured interviews. Despite these repeated findings, most of the recruiters still prefer to use unstructured interviews notably because they allow more…
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2016
Proactive helping behavior in hospitality: : a new measure and a test of A preliminary model
Based on the proactivity literature I suggest a new construct: proactive helping behavior. Proactive helping behavior is initiated by the helper, anticipates future needs or problems of the recipient, is intended to have a discernible impact on the recipient in the longer term, and is carried out in a persistent fashion. I developed a new measure for proactive helping behavior and…
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2016
A macro econometric model for forecasting the hotel-room night demand: : the case of Switzerland
This article proposes a macroeconomic-oriented method to forecast hotel room demand in Switzerland for the period stretching from the third quarter of 1974 to the fourth quarter of 2013. The method increases accuracy by weighting characteristics of the inbound tourists’ economies for their relative contribution. It adopts the VECM technique, which produces reliable forecasts in both…
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2016
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