全球饭店经营者双喜临门

根据德勤公司《酒店行业评测调查》的最新数据,2007年全球饭店业业绩不俗。所有地区——亚太、中美及南美、欧洲及中东的饭店市场,不仅实现了每间可出售客房平均收益两位数的增长,也在平均房价上达到了两位数增长。2007年,中美和南美的饭店经营者实现了高达24%的每间可出租客房收益增长率,每间客房平均实现75美元收益,这主要是由19.7%的平均房价增长拉动。其中,圣保罗的会展旅游住宿市场需求旺盛,入住率和平均房价都大幅增长,     

What makes a good project manager?

There is a growing awareness within project‐based sectors of the relationship between performance and managers' competencies. This article reports on research that investigated the competency profile of ‘superior’ project managers working within the construction industry, one of the most complex and dynamic project‐based industrial sectors. The study combined an assessment of both their behavioural competencies and job‐task competencies. The results reveal that while their job‐task competencies are highly specific to the industry in which they work, the behavioural competencies of superior project managers are mostly generic in nature and apply to a range of other management positions. This research shows how it is practically possible to identify the competency profile of superior managers and utilise this framework for managing the performance of this key management group.     

The success of business failure prediction models: An international survey

This paper surveys and discusses numerous studies, both published and unpublished, that have attempted to construct and test business failure models outside the United States. Failure risk models are one of the few types of financial models that have been applied pervasively on an international level. A considerable flow of literature has gone relatively unnoticed due to the fact that the reference source is not well known or the source material is not available in English. It is the purpose of this paper to document these efforts and thereby increase the discourse and knowledge about such studies and others not surveyed here. This survey complements the other company related studies found in this Special Issue.     

The relationship between cattle and savings: A cattle‐owner perspective

Using data from the Dryharts area in the Taung district of Bophuthatswana, the advantages and disadvantages of keeping cattle are explored using a cattle‐owner perspective. It is argued that storing wealth in the form of cattle is a rational investment decision. This has certain implications for strategies aimed at conservation of grazing resources. While providing rural inhabitants with alternative forms of storing wealth and helping towards alleviating the pressure on grazing land. It is at best a partial solution. Policy measures addressing the land question and rural‐urban balance could have a bigger impact.     

Union recruitment and organising attempts in Britain in the 1980s

Using information contained in the 1984 workplace industrial relations survey this article examines the extent and pattern of union organising attempts among non-union establishments in the years 1979–84. The results suggest that such attempts have tended to follow relatively traditional lines, although there is some evidence of an increased responsiveness to changing features of the labour market.     

Migration to the agricultural frontier and wealth accumulation, 1860-1870

I use a new data set of households linked between the 1860 and 1870 censuses to study frontier migration. Households that moved to the frontier to farm were more likely than non-migrants to have been poor, landless, and illiterate, and to have had young children. Also, after controlling for observable differences, migrants had below average abilities to accumulate wealth. These findings suggest fewer opportunities for migrants to accumulate wealth in non-frontier areas and a reason for their migration. Nonetheless, migrants fared well, accumulating wealth at high rates. The gains in wealth of migrants, especially those with long tenure on the frontier, suggest the extraordinary benefits of migration.