JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing School of Hotel Administration by Title
Now showing items 1155-1174 of 2024
-
Name That Tune: Selecting the Right Music for Your Operation
(2011-11-01)“Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.” – William Congreve (1697) As this opening line from a 17th-centrury play suggests, we’ve known that music can affect the listener for quite some time. In fact, no other element ... -
Name-Your-Own Price Auction Mechanisms – Modeling and Future Implications
(2011-01-01)A popular method for selling excess inventory over the Internet is via a Name-Your-Own Price auction, where the bidder bids on an item and the seller immediately decides on whether or not to accept the bid. The analytical ... -
National Character and Tipping Customs: The Needs for Achievement, Affiliation and Power as Predictors of the Prevalence of Tipping
(2000-01-01)Tipping is a widespread custom in which service patrons give sums of money above and beyond the contracted prices of those services to the workers who have served them. This study found that, tipping is more prevalent in ... -
National Differences in Subjective Well-Being: The Interactive Effects of Extraversion and Neuroticism
(2006-01-01)Extraversion and neuroticism interact to affect subjective well-being (SWB) at the individual level of analysis, so that introverted neurotics tend to be particularly miserable. The goal of this study is to determine if ... -
National Personality and Tipping Customs
(2000-01-01)This study examined the relationship between the number of tipped professions and national levels of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism in a sample of 21 countries. After two significant outliers were deleted, a ... -
National Values and Tipping Customs: A replication and extension of Lynn, Zinkhan and Harris (1993)
(2004-01-01)This study examined the relationships between national values, as measured by Hofstede (1983) and Schwartz (1994), and the customary size of restaurant tips in a sample of 54 nations. The results of this study indicate ... -
Natural Occupancy Rates and Development Gaps: A Look at the U.S. Lodging Industry
(1999-04-01)[Excerpt] The recent surge in lodging development has many observers asking whether the volume of rooms in the new construction pipeline is proper, given short- and long-run demand projections. According to recent projections, ... -
Natural Occupancy Shifts in Hotel Markets
(2018-01-01)The natural occupancy rate underpins room price adjustment models for hotel market evaluations; however, models that assume that this rate is time invariant and everywhere constant may introduce error when forecasting ... -
Natural Office Vacancy Rates: Some Additional Estimates
(1992-01-01)[Excerpt] In our recent paper (Shilling et al. [2]), we examined the rent adjustment process for 17 U.S. office markets and provided the first estimates of the natural vacancy rates. In his comment, Voith [3] argues that ... -
Nature, Health, and Wellbeing: Insights from 2019 CIHF Roundtable
(2019-08-01)[Excerpt] Taking a walk in the woods or even viewing nature through a window can improve our health and wellbeing in countless ways. It can reduce stress in our daily lives, help us recover from surgery, lower our blood ... -
Navigating the Self in Diverse Work Contexts
(2013-01-01)Navigating the self is critical for working in a diverse world, in which different identities interact in social space. This chapter presents five theoretical perspectives on how individuals navigate the self in diverse ... -
Neemrana Hotels: Building a Heritage Hospitality Brand
(2020-10-06)Neemrana Hotels, a heritage hospitality brand in India with a portfolio of 18 unique historical properties, was celebrating its 28th anniversary. Aman Nath (Exhibit 1), its founder and co-chairman had reasons to be proud, ... -
Negative Moderating Effect of General Self-Efficacy on the Relationship between Need for Cognition and Cognitive Effort
(2011-01-01)This study demonstrates the negative moderating effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between need for cognition, which refers to stable individual differences in people's tendencies to engage in and enjoy ... -
Network Exploitation Capability: Mapping the Electronic Maturity of Hospitality Enterprises
(2011-10-01)Although many hospitality firms are making effective use of their information technology resources, the value and effect of those operations could be magnified by a strategic and integrated approach to IT, called Network ... -
Network Exploitation Capability: Model Validation
(2013-04-01)This report provides the validation of a model for Network Exploitation Capability (NEC), which is a newly proposed measure of a lodging firm’s level of sophistication in its application of networked information technology ... -
Neuroticism and the Prevalence of Tipping: A Cross-Country Study
(1994-01-01)Tipping is a widespread custom in which service patrons voluntarily give money, above and beyond the price of the service, to the workers who have served them. This study found that the greater a nation’s level of neuroticism ... -
New Beats Old Nearly Every Day: The Countervailing Effects of Renovations and Obsolescence on Hotel Prices
(2008-07-02)As is the case with other commercial real estate types, hotels begin to depreciate from the time they open, in a process largely driven by functional obsolescence. Unlike other asset types, however, hotel values hit an ... -
New Delhi's Luxury Hotels
(1989-08-01)Eight hotels in New Delhi offer five-star deluxe service at a three-star price, thanks to a relatively favorable operating environment. Here is an analysis of the operations at the top of the New Delhi market. -
New Directions For Cross-Cultural Studies: Linking Organizational and Societal Cultures
(1986-01-01)[Excerpt] What does culture mean in cross-cultural studies? Much of the comparative management literature has adopted vague and atheoretical approaches to conceptualizing and measuring culture. It is no wonder that the ... -
New Directions in the Management of Employee Absenteeism: Attention to Policy and Culture
(1988-01-01)[Excerpt] Over one million American workers who are otherwise employed will not attend work on any given day: they will be absent. Given the expense and disruption associated with such widespread employee absenteeism, it ...
