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Browsing School of Hotel Administration Collection by Title
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Déjà Vu? An Updated Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S. Hospitality Sector
(2015-01-01)Drawing on a random sample of 112,990 people working in the U.S. hospitality sector in 2010, this study found strong evidence that there remains a significant difference in the income of women and men working in the industry, ... -
Differentiation as a Basis for Explaining Customer Satisfaction across Industries
(1993-12-01)The paper uses the differentiation of offerings as a basis for explaining differences in aggregate, industry level customer satisfaction in the annual Swedish Customer Satisfaction Barometer. The results reveal that ... -
Digging Deeper: Art Museums in Las Vegas?
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] Las Vegas has been called the “city of reinvention” (Douglass and Raento 2003). Part of its more recent reinvention efforts has included the opening of five fine-art venues. However, one of the art museums––the ... -
Discrete Choice Analysis in Hospitality Management Research
(1997-02-01)This article focuses on discrete choice analysis (DCA), which offers an effective approach for incorporating customer preferences into operating decisions in hospitality businesses. First the theoretical background of DCA ... -
Discrete Choices, Trade‐offs, and Advantages: Modeling Social Venture Opportunities and Intentions
(2009-01-01)[Excerpt] Our study is motivated by the fundamental question of whether social entrepreneurs differ from 'traditional' entrepreneurs. More concretely, is the way that aspiring entrepreneurs view social entrepreneurial ... -
Diversification Benefits of REIT Preferred and Common Stock: New Evidence from a Utility Based Framework
(2014-09-10)We study the diversification benefits of REIT preferred and common stock using a utility based framework in which investors segment based on risk aversion. Taking the view of a long run investor, we conduct our analysis ... -
Dividend Policy in the Lodging Industry
(2000-03-01)This article analyzes the factors underlying the dividend policy of lodging firms. In addition, it tests whether the market perceives changes in dividends as information about the value of the firm. In a world that is ... -
Dividend Pricing Models and REITs
(2003-01-01)Dividend pricing/present value models relate current stock prices to expectations of future dividends. In this study we apply the West and Campbell–Shiller tests of the dividend pricing relation to an index of real estate ... -
Do Consumer Prefer Round Prices? Evidence from Pay-What-You-Want Decisions and Self-Pumped Gasoline Purchases
(2013-01-01)Consumers selected round prices and/or sales-totals at greater than chance levels across two different pay-what-you-want situations and one self-pumped gasoline purchase. The differences among these situations suggest that ... -
Do Individuals or Firms Matter More? The Case of Patent Generation
(2016-04-01)This paper studies the relative importance of individual inventors’ human capital and firms’ organizational capital in promoting a firm’s innovation output. We decompose the variation in innovation output into inventor- ... -
Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Changes in Cash Flows? New Evidence from Parallel Asset Markets
(2012-01-01)We take advantage of two parallel markets for a set of cash flows to show that better cash flow measurement improves the performance of a dividend discount model. Unlike previous literature, we use out-of-sample estimation. ... -
Does Banking Competition Affect Innovation?
(2015-01-01)We exploit the deregulation of interstate bank branching laws to test whether banking competition affects innovation. We find robust evidence that banking competition reduces state-level innovation by public corporations ... -
Does Environmental Certification Help the Economic Performance of Hotels? Evidence from the Spanish Hotel Industry
(2012-08-01)The capacity to generate value-added services in order to acquire and retain loyal clients is one of the challenges facing the hospitality sector. For this reason and because of economic realities and government policies, ... -
Does the Measure of Dispersion Matter in Multilevel Research? A Comparison of the Relative Performance of Dispersion Indexes
(2007-01-01)Within the context of climate strength, this simulation study examines the validity of various dispersion indexes for detecting meaningful relationships between variability in group member perceptions and outcome variables. ... -
Does Tipping Help to Attract and Retain Better Service Workers?
(2016-06-30)A survey of several hundred restaurant servers in the United States found that servers’ attitudes toward working for tips and average tip sizes were weakly related (at best) to their service-orientation, intended job-tenure, ... -
Don’t Wait Until You Get Whacked on the Knees: An Appreciation for Reflexive Management
(1995-01-01)[Excerpt] An interesting question was recently posed by a guest speaker to undergraduate students in a strategic management course: “If you saw trash on the floor of your student cafeteria and lounge, would you bend down ... -
Downsizing and Structural Holes: Their Impact on Layoff Survivors’ Perceptions of Organizational Chaos and Openness to Change
(1998-01-01)Organizational downsizing places many strains on surviving employees. Despite the implicit relationship between changes to communication networks and employee responses, few studies examine downsizing-induced network changes ... -
Downsizing Survivors’ Communication Networks and Reactions: A Longitudinal Examination of Information Flow and Turnover Intentions
(2007-04-01)The pre- and postdownsizing information flow and postdownsizing turnover intentions of downsizing survivors were examined in the corporate office of an international hotel company. Using a combination of network analysis ... -
Driving Demand for the Quarterdeck: A Case Study
(2007-08-01)The Quarterdeck Beachside Villas and Grill is a small property that faces an all too common set of challenges, most of them stemming from steep seasonality. Located on Nova Scotia's south shore, the Quarterdeck sells out ... -
Dynamics and Dilemmas of Women Leading Women
(2000-11-01)Through examination of transcripts of the first five leadership succession discussions that occurred in a work group designed to empower teachers we explored dynamics and dilemmas associated with women leading a women's ...
