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Facilitators and inhibitors of organic food buying behavior
(Elsevier, 2021-03)Consumption patterns across the globe indicate consumers’ rising interest in purchasing organic food due to increasing personal-health consciousness. However, research on organic food shows a low translation of this interest ... -
Factors affecting internationalization decision making in family businesses: An integrated literature review
(Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2014-04)International expansion represents an important strategic decision that family firms must make to expand and diversify. Different factors, both internal and external, influence the decision to internationalize. The purpose ... -
The five-factor model of personality and organizational citizenship behavior in United Arab Emirates
(SAM Society for Advancement of Management, 2007-01)Personality traits refer to enduring patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that are not likely to change over time and explain people’s behavior across different situations (Costa and McCrae, 1989; Funder, 2001). The ... -
The Four Phase Method For Modelling Complex Systems
(Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference ed. S. Andraddttir, K. J. Healy, D. H. Withers, and B. L. Nelson, 1997)This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the ... -
A framework for a green and lean supply chain: A construction project application
(2012-07)Despite the increased amount of attention to developing lean and green supply chains, there is a lack of comprehensive frameworks and a shortage of information on how to integrate environmental initiatives and lean techniques ... -
A Framework for Optimizing the Supply Chain Performance of a Steel Producer
(ResearchGate, 2013)Supply Chain Management (SCM) is focused on developing, optimizing, and operating efficient supply chains. Efficient supply chains are characterized by cost effective decisions, lean flow and structure, high degree of ... -
From inns to hotels: The evolution of public houses in Colonial Victoria
(Emerald, 2013-03)Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to examine travellers' experiences with public houses in Colonial Victoria, to determine how the hospitality industry in the colony was transformed from primitive hospitality provision ... -
Gastronomy: a phenomenon of cultural expressionism and an aesthetic for living
(Elsevier, 2001-03)The culture of a society is manifest in a variety of ways, in its art, language and literature, music, and in all forms of religious and secular ritual. Cultural expression, however, whilst being a powerful factor in the ... -
Green and sustainable practices in the construction industry: a confirmatory factor analysis approach
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-05)The purpose of this paper is to differentiate between sustainable and green construction and significantly contribute to empirical investigations related to the impact of green construction factors on sustainable performance ... -
Green Supply Chain Management and Corporate Performance: Developing a Roadmap for Future Research Using a Mixed Method Approach
(Elsevier, 2019-05)Global warming and the depletion of natural resources have motivated calls for significant changes in the way organizations produce and deliver products and services. In many countries mandatory measures, such as carbon ... -
Guest-based hotel equity: scale development and validation
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-10)This paper aims to measure customer-based brand equity in the context of hotels, and to develop and empirically validate a new scale, named guest-based hotel equity (GBHE), by incorporating the customer perceived value of ... -
Homogeneity Localization Using Particle Filters With Application to Noise Estimation
(IEEE Xplore, 2011-07)This paper proposes a method for localizing homogeneity and estimating additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) variance in images. The proposed method uses spatially and sparsely scattered initial seeds and utilizes particle ... -
Hospitality: a liberal introduction
(Elsevier, 2002-06)Hospitality management higher education's historic origins have resulted in a strong vocational ethos permeating curricula. Knowledge about hospitality has been drawn from the industry and the world of work rather than ... -
How governance paradigms and other drivers affect public managers acceptance of innovation practices
(Academy of Management, 2020)With this research, we integrate the determinants driving the decisions of public managers towards opting for an innovation practice to achieve public goals. After our exploratory analysis dealing with those determinants ... -
How governance paradigms and other drivers affect public managers’ use of innovation practices. A PLS-SEM analysis and model
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-01)Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology for Innovations in the Public Sector (UTAUT-IPS) model, this study examined the influences on using a specific innovation practice on public managers. We based ... -
ICT as a Catalyst for Innovation Diffusion
(HAICTA, 2015)The availability of water is a global issue which is predicted to become more pronounced in the future. As a large and relatively dry continent Australia is presented with a series of challenges within the agriculture ... -
Identifying structural changes and regime switching in growing and declining inbound tourism markets in Australia
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2015-08)This paper examines the dynamic changes in the number of tourists arriving in Australia from 53 markets using monthly data (1991m1–2014m4). A modified capital asset pricing model incorporating Markov switching and Bai–Perron ... -
Identifying the perceived barriers to participation in tertiary education among hospitality employees
(Emerald, 2001-01)Reports on an investigation which identified a number of barriers which deter some hospitality industry employees from taking advantage of formal study opportunities. These barriers, which are categorised as informational, ... -
The impact of advertising attitudes on the intensity of TV ads avoiding behavior
(Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2010-10)This study seeks mainly to identify the impact of advertising attitudes on the intensity of TV advertisements avoiding behavior. It contributes to the very limited literature in the field of TV ads avoiding behaviour ... -
Impact of Capacity Constraints on the Dynamic Response of Two Level Supply Chain
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014)This paper investigates the impact of capacity constraints on the stability boundaries of two tier supply chain. System dynamic simulation using iThink Software has been applied to explore the impact of different levels ...