Using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), we examined the impact of age on entrepreneurial intention, with special focus on seniors. Using samples from France reflecting a broad age range, a negative relationship involving age and entrepreneurial intent was found. Consistent with TPB, attitude, social norms, and perceived behavioural control were all significantly associated with intent. Importantly however, the relative weight seniors gave these components differed from that of prime age participants. For seniors, the belief that they had the requisite competencies and resources needed to own a business was especially important. Seniors also expressed greater relative interest in social entrepreneurship. The implications of these findings for both researchers and public policy makers are considered.
Volition is a determinant psychological factor in entrepreneurship to better understand the behavior of entrepreneurs. This study analyzes the personal characteristics that determine the route of entrepreneurial actions by analyzing volitional skills of three categories of people: students, potential entrepreneurs, and active entrepreneurs. The results show that individuals mobilize volitional skills in a successive order, one after the other. In addition, this order is determined by the individual's progress on the process of creation that the model of volition in this study synthetizes determines such order.
This paper examines the impact of postadoption innovation implementation strategies on five distinct performance outcomes. Using a sample of 85 hotels in Europe, the study explores which implementation strategies are most strongly linked to specific innovation outcomes and competitive performance. The results reveal that employee enabling implementation strategies have a positive direct effect on employee performance and indirect effects on customer sentiment outcomes and the operational performance of the innovation. Administratively driven implementation strategies had a positive direct effect on customer comparative performance and an indirect effect on a firm’s comparative operational performance as hypothesized. Finally, owners were more likely to be idea generators and principle early supporters of successful innovations, highlighting the power of top-down approaches to championing change within the European context.
As learners’ access to knowledge has changed, so have their expectations of what and how they expect to learn in hospitality and tourism degree programs. This paper explores experiences of digital natives in a flipped classroom environment supported by open source technology (MOOCS, Moodle & Mahara) and Team Academy methodology. Blended learning is explored and practical experiences with experimental team activities are presented. Results show a potential the existence of a Blue Ocean, that can generate high levels of satisfaction, fast learning of tacit knowledge and the option for learners to develop tools, that can be utilised in academic and professional environments. The approach to teaching and learning here presented provides hospitality and tourism institutions with the opportunity to manage demand and supply within the dynamic world economy, by applying revenue management techniques, based on forecasted demand, willingness to pay as well as an activity based costing. The approach outlined provides cost and differentiation advantages, while widening access to university learning.
In this article I explore the impact of the introduction of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002 and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s implementation of the Act in 2006 on the options granting process. I show that after the in troduct ion of the SOX and its implementation the pract ice of backdating options was subst ituted with the practice of “spring loading” options around analysts’ price targets announcements.
Marc Stierand looks at the challenge of developing creative hospitality and restaurant provision. On the one hand it has to be rescued from the tyrrany of survey results and averages; on the other it has to escape the practical but useless bright ideas (known in Japan as chindogu) which occur to all enterprising managers.
The Swiss life sciences poster series hightlights Swiss research institutions achievements and global collaborations. It builds upon analysis of 2004-14 Web of science data.
