JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing School of Hotel Administration Collection by Title
Now showing items 655-674 of 1235
-
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
New Issues and Opportunities in Service Design Research
(2002-04-01)In an era of intense high-speed competition, offering to the marketplace a sustainable and profitable value proposition that effectively leverages a firm’s financial, human, and operational resources is critical to both ... -
New Media: Connecting with Guests throughout the Travel Experience
(2011-01-01)[Excerpt] As the use of social media expands, you must stay abreast of the increasing array of communications media options for how and when to reach your guests. We refer to new media as those that extend the boundaries ... -
No-Arbitrage Conditions for Storable Commodities and the Models of Futures Term Structures
(2009-10-23)One distinguishable feature of storable commodities is that they relate to two markets: cash market and storage market. This paper proves that, if no arbitrage exists in the storage-cash dual markets, the commodity convenience ... -
Not Merely a Matter of Drawing Arrows: The Empirical Consequences of Measurement Model Specification and Recommendations for Practice
(2017-08-01)Understanding measurement model specification is especially important for hospitality research due to its cross-disciplinary nature and the prevalence of measures used in the field which are often central to the formative ... -
Not Too Big… Not Too Small… Just Right: A Goldilocks Approach to Kitchen Design
(2007-09-01)[Excerpt] A strong concept, a great team, and consistent, quality execution are all important to make your restaurant a success. But without the right facility, it's much harder for your good ideas and management skill to ...
