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Item HRM practices and innovative work behavior within the hotel industry in Pakistan: Harmonious passion as a mediator(Taylor and Francis Group LLC, 2021-01-01) Jan G; Zainal SRM; Lee MCCInnovative work behavior (IWB) forms an essential basis for obtaining competitive advantage and long-term success for organizations. Empirical research on this behavior has received limited attention in hospitality context. This study tests a conceptual model that examines how IWB can be transpired through the different aspects of HRM practices (i.e., service training, servicing empowerment, participation in decision making) via harmonious passion. Two hundred and twenty full-time employees who worked in the four- and five-star hotels in Pakistan participated in the study. The findings reported significant mediating effect of harmonious passion between the three aspects of HRM practices and IWB.Item A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred(1/01/2023) Fletcher T; Sturm D; Malcolm DAttending and consuming events are integral to many peoples’ leisure lives. However, as the literature attests, events represent significant sites of contestation over who does and does not belong. This paper explores such contestation in the notoriously elitist and traditionally exclusionary sport of cricket, and specifically The Hundred; the most recent attempt to democratise the sport by appealing to a more demographically diverse spectator base. It uniquely blends extensive semi-structured interviews with stakeholders (n = 33), and a synthesised theoretical framework of mediatisation, media events and digital leisure studies, to argue that the apparent success of The Hundred in attracting and including new audiences has been enabled by incorporating elements of media spectacle. We therefore, use The Hundred to further delineate the processes described in the extant literature, and extend analysis of the ‘digital turn’, by drawing attention to the tensions between the speed and trajectory of these developments and the constraints imposed by cricket’s history. We illustrate how digital and analogue leisure remain highly interdependent, and argue that the ongoing contestation of game forms championed by different cricket stakeholders makes it improbable that The Hundred can achieve its twin goals of being economically viable, while increasing the popularity and, ultimately survival, of other cricket formats.Item Grand Ideas or Delusions of Grandeur? Placing big thinkers and essential theories in property economics research(30/03/2022) Squires GPurpose: This article is looking to reflect on the various important touchstones of “grand theory” and “big thinkers” that can be framed when engaging empirical evidence in property economics research. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is reflexive in nature, using experiential reflection to consider theory in property economics. The importance of “methodology” is emphasised rather than “method”. Findings: Using reflexive mode, the paper does not have “findings” as such: if the views expressed are accepted, then a research agenda to better understand property economics research is implied. Research limitations/implications: The nature of reflection is that it follows from the writer's experiential processes and interpretations. The reader may come from a different stance. Broadly accepting the propositions, there is a call for property economics research to be formulated in reason and logic, particularly as humans do not reason from facts alone. Such reasoned thinking could for example be in the property economic concepts of space and place, contracts and justice, capital and financialisation. Practical implications: To engage with such theory would provide some depth of philosophical roots for property as a discipline. Elevating property as a “real-world” discipline rather than simply an applied mathematics discipline. Social implications: The paper enables an understanding of how property economics research can benefit from more ontology and more inductive reasoning. Originality/value: The paper reflects the views and experience of the author based on over 15 years of research in property economics.Item Travel mode choice for domestic intercity travel: A case study in Suzhou, China(17/09/2022) Deng Q; Henderson ILAbstract (English) This study examines how residents in Suzhou, China choose between different travel modes for domestic intercity travel. Suzhou provides an interesting case study because of its developed high-speed rail (HSR) network and proximity to three major airports. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were administered to 158 participants to obtain information about their most recent intercity trip and important factors for choosing travel modes. The interviews were thematically analysed, and participants were coded as being in or out of themes to allow for chi-squared tests of independence (to examine associations between themes and demographic variables) and binary logistic regressions (to predict travel mode choice based upon themes). The findings show that accessibility, convenience, and price increase the likelihood of a participant having chosen HSR. However, the more important contribution is methodological, highlighting the importance of studying actual behaviours (rather than attitudes and preferences) and avoiding the issues of self-generated validity and construct creation. Abstrak (Bahasa Indonesia) Studi ini mengkaji bagaimana penduduk di Suzhou, China memilih antara mode perjalanan yang berbeda untuk perjalanan domestik antar kota. Suzhou memberikan studi kasus yang menarik karena jaringan kereta berkecepatan tinggi (HSR) yang dikembangkan dan kedekatannya dengan tiga bandara utama. Wawancara kualitatif semi terstruktur dilakukan kepada 158 peserta untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang perjalanan antar kota terbaru mereka dan faktor-faktor penting untuk memilih mode perjalanan. Wawancara dianalisis secara tematis, dan peserta diberi kode sebagai masuk atau keluar dari tema untuk memungkinkan tes independensi chi-kuadrat (untuk menguji hubungan antara tema dan variabel demografis) dan regresi logistik biner (untuk memprediksi pilihan mode perjalanan berdasarkan tema). Temuan menunjukkan bahwa aksesibilitas, kenyamanan, dan harga meningkatkan kemungkinan peserta memilih HSR. Namun, kontribusi yang lebih penting adalah metodologis, menyoroti pentingnya mempelajari perilaku aktual (daripada sikap dan preferensi) dan menghindari masalah validitas yang dihasilkan sendiri dan penciptaan konstruk.Item Editorial: Housing affordability – can we put the housing wealth genie back in the bottle?(Emerald Publishing Limited, 23/01/2020) Squires G; White DItem How do personality traits affect construction dispute negotiation? Study of Big Five Personality Model(1/03/2011) Yiu TW; Lee HKThis paper provides some leads as to how personality traits affect negotiating behaviors and negotiation outcomes in a construction dispute negotiation. To achieve this, a questionnaire survey was conducted. The Big Five Personality Model was used to measure the personality traits of construction negotiators. Factors of negotiating behaviors and negotiation outcomes were developed. By interrelating these three elements, moderated multiple regression (MMR) was used to examine how personality traits affect the relationships between negotiating behaviors and negotiation outcomes. The results suggest that 16 MMR models are of significant moderating effects on these relationships. Among them, the top five MMR models with relatively strong moderating effects are identified. These models reveal that the personality traits of extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness can significantly moderate the relationships of negotiating behaviors and negotiation outcomes. In addition, their moderating effects are plotted to examine their natures. Effective zones of extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness are identified to show precisely how these personality traits can effectively facilitate positive negotiation outcomes. These results provide construction organizations with indicators to which type of personality traits can help improve negotiation outcomes and optimize the overall performance of construction dispute negotiations. © 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.Item Catastrophic transitions of construction contracting behavior(24/11/2008) Cheung SO; Yiu TW; Leung AYT; Chiu OKThe ways to manage a construction project very much depend on the attitude of the people involved. Collectively this is identified as construction contracting behavior (CCB). The CCB of the construction industry is adversarial as pinpointed in many industry-wide reviews. A more cooperative project delivery approach has therefore been advocated. In fact, drive for efficiency provides the incentive for cooperation. Nevertheless, members of a project team, in representing their respective organizations, are often in conflict. The dichotomous pair of cooperation and aggression forces therefore coexist. It is not uncommon to note that CCB turns aggressive as the construction activities of a project intensify. This change is often sudden and thus matches well with the phenomenon of hysteresis described by the catastrophe theory (CT). It is hypothesized that the dynamics of CCB can be modeled by CT. The three-variable CT models include CCB (as dependent variable), cooperation forces (as normal factor) and aggression forces (as splitting factor). With data collected from a survey fitted by the Cuspfit program, it was found that trust intensity is an effective normal factor. Contract incompleteness and competitive inertia are splitting factors that trigger aggression. © 2008 ASCE.Item Moderating effect of equity sensitivity on behavior-outcome relationships in construction dispute negotiation(1/05/2011) Yiu TW; Law YMThis study builds on Adam's equity theory by examining the moderating effects of equity sensitivity (i.e., a person's perception of what is equitable or inequitable) on behavior-outcome relationships among negotiators in construction dispute negotiation. First, an equity sensitivity construct is developed. This construct reveals that most construction negotiators are entitleds, also known as takers, at the negotiation table. Moderated multiple regression (MMR) is used to test the moderating effects of equity sensitivity. The MMR models affirm that the nature of behavior-outcome relationships varies, depending on the perception of equity. An entitled construction negotiator is found to be a versatile moderator who fosters satisfactory negotiation outcomes. The models show that negotiators are able to predict inequitable responses and to take measures to forestall or deal with different inequitable situations. This study indicates the merit of further study of equity theory in the context of construction dispute negotiation. Future challenges in this area include the examination of the equity restoration responses of negotiators to create an equitable environment. © 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.Item Finance-oriented directors and crisis management: Blissful ignorance in the hospitality industry?(Elsevier, 24/05/2017) Macpherson WG; Iaquinto AL; Jannicelle VThe primary purpose of this study was to examine the demographic characteristics of Boards of Directors in the hospitality industry, and how those characteristics can impact a firm's performance during a major crisis. More specifically, using the upper echelons perspective, this study examined the impact of finance-oriented directors, and directors who were outsiders, on a company's stock price during the great recession. Results using companies from the hospitality industry indicate that companies that had the highest percentage of finance-orientated directors tended to fall further and recover less quickly. Yet, in the aftermath of the crisis, companies that performed worse during the crisis tended to increase the percentage of finance-oriented directors. The authors of the study assert that extending the application of the blissful ignorance effect is a logical explanation for the behavior found in the results.Item Contingent use of negotiators' tactics in construction dispute negotiation(1/06/2009) Cheung SO; Chow PT; Yiu TWIn the course of negotiation, negotiators' tactics should be responsive to the situational factors. This is commonly described as the contingent use of negotiators' tactics. This study examines this concept in construction dispute negotiation and has three stages of work. Stage 1 develops taxonomies of the three construction dispute negotiation dimensions: dispute sources, negotiators' tactics, and negotiation outcomes by exploratory factor analysis. A structural equation modeling is also used to confirm the taxonomies. Stage 2 examines the contingent use of negotiators' tactics on outcomes respective to the dispute sources through the use of moderated multiple regression (MMR). Stage 3 discusses the findings. The dispute source, "Delay" is found to be a universal moderator in the MMR analysis of the tactic-outcome relationships. That means when the dispute source is delay, a wide range of negotiators' tactics can be used, respective to outcome intended. It is also found that the most versatile tactics are those that seek progress. This group of tactics is effective in almost every group of dispute source and, in general, positive results can be expected. However, aggressive and assertive tactics should be used restrictively, as they will only be useful against a compromising negotiation counterpart. © 2009 ASCE.
