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Reflecting on hospitality management education through a practice lens

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on hospitality management education from a “practice epistemology” and discuss how a connecting of savoir (theoretical knowledge or “knowing”), savoir-faire (knowing how to do tasks, i.e. task-related skills) and savoir-être (knowing how to be, i.e. behavior) can develop into practical knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 01/10/2015

Wine funds: : an alternative turning sour?

This article examines the performance, selectivity, and market-timing abilities of wine fund managers over the 2000–2013 period. The authors hypothesize that wine fund managers should be able to profit from market inefficiencies on the wine market and generate abnormal returns for investors. Their results show that fund managers’ overall selectivity and market-timing abilities appear...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 01/10/2015

Using binding communication to promote conservation among hotel guests

This research applies the binding communication model to the sustainable communication strategies implemented in most hotels. The binding communication model links a persuasive messag e with the implementation of a low-cost commitment to strengthen the link between the attitudes and behavior o f those receiving the message. We compared the effectiveness of a classical communication...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 01/10/2015

Only time will tell: : the changing relationships between LMX, job performance and justice

Although it has been argued that leader–member exchange (LMX) is a phenomenon that develops over time, the existing LMX literature is largely cross-sectional in nature. Yet, there is a great need for unraveling how LMX develops over time. To address this issue in the LMX literature, we examine the relationships of LMX with 2 variables known for changing over time: job performance and...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 01/10/2015

Determining guests’ willingness to pay for hotel room attributes with a discrete choice model

Hotel managers need to understand the marginal utility customers associate with a specific attribute ofa hotel in order to effectively set up rate fences and to price their rooms accordingly. This study adopteda stated choice experiment and discrete choice modeling method to obtain hotel guests’ willingness topay (WTP) for a specific set of room attributes within a single hotel...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 01/10/2015

Raus aus der engen Schublade beim Kunden!

In der falschen Schublade versorgt zu sein, ist meistens das Problem des Anbieters und weniger des Kunden. Der Kunde bezieht nur wenige Leistungen, auch wenn er grundsätzlich weitere Produkte und Services von diesem Lieferanten bestellen könnte. Dieser Beitrag orientiert sich am B2B-Marketing und -Vertrieb und thematisiert ein unterschätztes Problem.

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Deutsch / 01/10/2015

Constructivist paradigms: implications for strategy-as-practice research

The practice turn in strategy research (Johnson, Melin and Whittington 2003; Johnson et al. 2007; Golsorkhi et al. 2010; Vaara and Whittington 2012) implies an explicit reconsideration of paradigmatic premises (Tsoukas and Knudsen 2002; Feldman and Orlikowski 2011; Vaara and Whittington 2012). The strategy-as-practice research programme challenges concepts of strategy that have long...

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English / 01/10/2015

Organizational aspects of business model innovation: : the case of the european postal industry

Adopting alternative business models is one way for mature businesses to generate new growth. Several studies have addressed some of the organizational barriers that incumbents face when developing such new business models, but our understanding of the organizational (re)design aspects inherent to business model innovation is still very incomplete. In this study, we investigate the...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 25/09/2015

Investor motivation in crowdfunding: : helping self or helping others

This paper contributes to explain why individuals provide monetary support to entrepreneurs in globally remote areas , via crowdfunding . There is an established literature on prosocial behavior, which explains the individual’s need for helping and other voluntary...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 25/09/2015

Drittnutzung öffentlicher Dachflächen für Photovoltaikanlagen : Handlungsempfehlungen für Gemeinden

Angeregt durch die staatlichen Fördermassnahmen für erneuerbare Energien wird aktuell eine Vielzahl von Dachflächen mit Photovoltaikanlagen bebaut. Die Bereitstellung von Dachflächen an private Unternehmen kann aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen oder aus Interesse an der Förderung erneuerbarer Energien im Sinne der Erfüllung einer öffentlichen Aufgabe auch für Gemeinwesen attraktiv sein....

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Deutsch / 25/09/2015

Exzellenz und/oder Chancengleichheit der Geschlechter : Nationale Programmatiken und diskursive Praktiken an Universitäten (Deutschland und Schweiz)"

(Un-)Gleichheiten im Hochschulkontext: Kritische Perspektiven aus der Gender- und Intersektionalitätsforschung

Deutsch / 25/09/2015

Mes idées, le marché et moi: : une analyse de l’impact du feedback du marché sur l’évaluation commerciale et l’identification cognitive des individus avec leurs idées

Cette étude a pour objet les mécanismes psychologiques basés sur l'identité, afin de comprendre comment ils influencent les entrepreneur s en devenir dans la phase de transition entre la créativité et l’entrepreneuriat . Plus précisément, le présent article constitue une étude quantitative de la manière dont les perceptions individuelles des idées d’...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 24/09/2015

Fostering radical innovation with bootlegging

In order to improve their innovation outputs, companies ar e trying to harness their employees’ creativity in more systematic ways. Bootlegging is known to be a way employees exert their creativity secretly in the organizations they work for by pursuing innovation projects on their own and without managerial control . This research studies bootlegging projects at BMW, the German...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 24/09/2015

Cardiovascular system

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.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 24/09/2015

Cell biology

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.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 24/09/2015

Immunology

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.

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 24/09/2015

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