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Browsing School of Hotel Administration Collection by Title
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Earnings Announcements and Attention Constraints: The Role of Market Design
(2012-01-10)We identify a new channel – market makers’ attention constraints – through which earnings announcements for one stock affect the liquidity of other stocks. When some stocks handled by a designated market maker have earnings ... -
Earnings Announcements and Investor Focus in the Hospitality Industry
(2015-02-01)This study examines how the release of multiple firms’ earnings announcements on the same day combines with human attention constraints to affect the trading of hospitality stocks. We document two opposing effects. We find ... -
Eco-efficiency of Service Co-production: Connecting Eco-certifications and Resource Efficiency in U.S. Hotels
(2014-02-01)This study investigates the relationship between eco-certifications (second or third party certified with an audit requirement) and resource efficiency in the U.S. hotel industry. Hotel properties become eco-certified by ... -
Economic and Capital Market Antecedents of Venture Capital Commitments (1960-2010)
(2013-01-01)Using vector autoregression technique, we examine the interrelation between venture capital flows, economic development, capital market fund-raising activities, and capital market valuation, based on annual data of the ... -
Economic Fundamentals, Capital Expenditures and Asset Dispositions
(2017-09-20)Research on the disposition effect in real assets to date ignores the active management component of these investments. Active management notably includes decisions about follow-up investment in the form of capital ... -
Economic Fundamentals, Capital Expenditures and Asset Dispositions
(2019-02-14)The real estate literature recognizes the real option to invest in capital expenditures (CAPEX) or sell a property but treats these options as independent. We show that these real options are interconnected. We provide ... -
Economic Linkages, Relative Scarcity, and Commodity Futures Returns
(2013-05-01)This paper shows that economic linkages among commodities create a source of long-term correlation between futures returns. We extend the theory of storage to a multi-commodity level and find that the convenience yield of ... -
Effect of Market Channel, Farm Scale, and Years in Production on Mid-Atlantic Vegetable Producers' Knowledge and Implementation of Good Agricultural Practices
(2015-04-30)Foodborne illnesses associated with fresh produce have dramatically increased within the last decade. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) were developed to address potential sources of pre-harvest microbial contamination, ... -
Effect of Milling Environment on the Breakage Rates in Dry and Wet Grinding
(1992-01-01)In ball milling the rates of breakage vary primarily with the size distribution of powder in the mill. Using an approximate solution to the batch-grinding equation, the acceleration and deceleration of breakage rates of ... -
Effect of Server Posture on Restaurant Tipping
(1993-01-01)The effect of server posture (standing vs. squatting) on the size of tip left by restaurant customers was examined in two naturalistic experiments. In these studies, squatting down next to the tables increased servers' ... -
Effective Design of Products/Services: An Approach Based on Integration of Marketing and Operations Management Decisions
(2001-03-01)This paper presents an integrated framework for designing profit-maximizing products/services, which can also be produced at reasonable operating difficulty levels. Operating difficulty is represented as a function of ... -
Effective Hedging of Mortgage Interest Rate Risk
(1982-01-01)Unfortunately, the hedging effectiveness of the GNMA futures market has been diminished by a lack of understanding of the selection of proper hedge ratios. This paper presents a derivation of the optimal hedge ratio for ... -
Effective Product and Process Development Using Quality Function Deployment
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] Even though a number of publications stress the usefulness of the house of quality, none of the well-cited articles shows an example of the complete QFD process. To successfully integrate the voice of the customer ... -
Effects of Pictures on the Organization and Recall of Social Information
(1985-01-01)The role of visual stimuli in the organization and recall of social information was investigated in a study that presented photographs of stimulus persons along with verbal trait descriptors. Paired with four trait descriptors ... -
Effects of Unionization on Graduate Student Employees: Faculty-Student Relations, Academic Freedom, and Pay
(2013-04-01)In cases involving unionization of graduate student research and teaching assistants at private U.S. universities, the National Labor Relations Board has, at times, denied collective bargaining rights on the presumption ... -
Efficacy and Outcome Expectations Related to Customer Complaints About Service Experiences
(2000-06-01)The social exchange between consumers and service providers in service- based operations (such as restaurants) provides an opportunity to examine complaint efficacy and outcome expectations. To further explain the cognitive ... -
Egoistic and Nonegoistic Motives in Social Dilemmas
(1986-01-01)Many of the world's problems (e.g., overpopulation, pollution, and the depletion of nonrenewable resources) may be characterized as social dilemmas. The solutions to social dilemmas, then, are very important. In this ... -
Electronic Commerce and World Wide Web Apprehensiveness: An Examination of Consumers' Perceptions of the World Wide Web
(2006-01-01)Through a telephone survey of 204 residents from a northeastern state, participants' perceptions of the World Wide Web usage were investigated. In a path model, the relationships between perceptions and attitudes toward ... -
Electronic Distribution Channels’ Effect on Hotel Revenue Management
(2002-06-01)Even with the variety of distribution channels available, rate and length of stay remain the key factors in revenue management. -
Elwood Murray's Interdisciplinary View: Expanding the Boundaries of the Speech Field
(1983-01-01)Elwood Murray believes in the interdisciplinary nature of speech and has been quick to incorporate findings from other disciplines to enhance his understanding of the communication process. This paper traces the development ...
