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Browsing School of Hotel Administration Collection by Title
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In Defense of Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes: Saving the Baby, Tossing Out the Bath Water, and Constructing a New Sink In the Process
(1999-01-01)[Excerpt] In its 1991 Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp.decision, the Supreme Court held that employers could require as a condition of employment that employees agree to arbitrate their Age Discrimination in Employment ... -
In Defense of Theory
(2006-02-01)[Excerpt] One of the trends I see in the popular press and even in some research circles is that the concept of “theory” seems to be under assault. The term “theory” has in some ways become a synonym for some to “impractical.” ... -
In Our Own Backyard: When a Less Inclusive Community Challenges Organizational Inclusion
(2015-01-01)Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to build insight into how the local community impacts an organization’s ability to develop an inclusive culture. The paper introduces the concept of inclusion disconnects as incongruent ... -
In Search of Strategic Operations Research/Management Science
(2002-03-01)We define strategic OR/MS as "OR/MS work that leads to a sustainable competitive advantage." We found evidence of strategic OR/MS in the literature of strategic information systems (SIS) and OR/MS. We examined 30 early ... -
In the Buying Mode: Smart Shopping Tips for Kitchen Gear Purchases
(2008-06-01)[Excerpt] Buying foodservice equipment is kind of like buying a car; it doesn't take a lot of experience or skill to make a good purchase as long as you know what you want and are savvy about how to find it. While a detailed ... -
Inaccuracy of the “Naïve Table Mix” Calculations
(2011-08-01)This article extends the analysis of table mixes for restaurants, on the principle that table mix helps drive revenue. The article presents the results of a simulation experiment of more than forty-six thousand restaurant ... -
Increasing Servers’ Tips: What Managers Can Do and Why They Should Do It
(2005-01-01)Tipping is generally regarded in the industry as more of a server concern than a managerial one. For this reason, it is the rare restaurant executive or manager who tries to actively influence the level of his or her ... -
Individual Differences in Self-Attributed Motives for Tipping: Antecedents, Consequences, and Implications
(2009-01-01)This study examines individual differences in self-attributed motives for tipping. The findings indicate that: (i) individual differences in various intrinsic motives load on one factor while individual differences in ... -
Individual Differences in the Pursuit of Self-Uniqueness Through Consumption
(1997-01-01)In this paper, we report an original study of the relationships between self- attributed need for uniqueness and several consumer dispositions. The results indicate that the self-attributed need for uniqueness is related ... -
Individual Investors and the Financial Crisis
(2014-01-01)This paper studies the trading behavior of individual Chinese investors before and during the recent financial crisis. We have three major findings: (i) individual investors did not withdraw their capital from the equity ... -
Individual vs. Aggregate Preferences: The Case of a Small Fish in a Big Pond
(2013-02-01)We study the relationship between the risk preferences of individuals and the risk preferences of the aggregate economy. To emphasize the vast differences that can occur between individual and market preferences brought ... -
Ingredients for success: Career development in the hospitality industry
(2004-08-01)Hospitality managers can expect to confront five challenges in the decades ahead. A study of luxury hotel general managers identifies the skills and personal characteristics respondents perceived as most important to their ... -
Initial Public Offerings in the Hospitality Industry: Underpricing and Overperformance
(1996-10-01)Underwriters may view the primary issue of most hotel and casino stocks as more risky than stocks of new companies generally. Still, newly issued stocks of hospitality companies have generally outperformed the market in ... -
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry
(2010-10-01)Which hotels benefit from locating next to competitors? In this study of 14,995 hotels we provide evidence of both a price benefit and a detriment for specific hotels that co‐locate next to other hotels. Relying on the ... -
Innovation Orientation Outcomes: The Good and the Bad
(2006-10-01)Most prior innovation research has focused on factors that affect innovations, primarily rate, speed and benefits. More recent research has examined innovation as a system-based, firm-wide orientation toward innovation. ... -
Innovations in Hospitality Human Resources: Cases from the U.S. Lodging Industry
(2007-01-01)[Excerpt] Today’s hospitality and tourism companies face complex, dramatically shifting challenges, most notably the need to compete for increasingly sophisticated customers in a global, fluid marketplace. To attract and ... -
Innovative Operations Management Applications in Not-for-Profit, Public and Government Services
(2006-01-01)[Excerpt] After Journal of Operations Management Editor-In-Chief Robert Handfield approved our request to develop a special issue on not-for-profit, government and public services, we wondered if there will be enough ... -
Innovative Practice in the Spanish Hotel Industry
(2012-02-01)A survey of corporate-level senior research and development managers in twenty-seven of Spain’s largest hotel chains found a general bias toward innovation, as the majority have formal R&D departments and offer rewards for ... -
Insider Trading as a Signal of Private Information
(1993-01-01)There is substantial evidence that insider trading is present around corporate announcements and that this insider trading is motivated by private information. Using real estate investment trusts that choose to reappraise ... -
Institutional Holding Periods
(2013-04-29)We find wide dispersion in trade holding periods for institutional money managers and pension funds. All of the funds execute round-trip trades lasting over a year; 96% of them also execute trades lasting less than one ...
