Food-related personality traits and the moderating role of novelty-seeking in food satisfaction and travel outcomes

Previous research on tourist food consumption acknowledges that food-related personality traits, including neophilic and neophobic tendencies, can impede or encourage tourists to try novel food at a destination. However, the travel motivation literature advocates that tourists tend to be in a general condition of seeking novel experiences, including sampling a destination's novel food. How food-related personality traits interact with novelty pursuits to influence tourists' food consumption and subsequent satisfaction and travel outcomes remains unknown. The study proposes a framework of tourist food experience that leads from food-related personality traits, novel food consumption, and satisfaction to travel outcomes. While the results support the baseline model, the moderating effect of novelty seeking demonstrates that novelty seeking does not moderate the relationship between personality traits and consumption of novel food. It does, however, moderate satisfaction with food.     

Making innovation happen through building social capital and scanning environment

Both new service development and existing service improvement are critical tools for hotels to gain competitive advantages, but pursuing new services while simultaneously improving existing services is difficult for hotel managers. The success of highly proactive hotel managers has been credited to their ability to change the environment effectively, and such managers may be able to lead hotels to resolve the trade-off dilemma and deliver better services. To elucidate the contributions of proactive managers in making innovation happen, this study explored two key activities that hotels may undertake when prompted by the proactive managers, namely, environmental scanning and social capital building. The process involved in developing new services and improving current services was examined using empirical data collected from the general managers of 226 hotels in Taiwan. The results confirm that environmental scanning and social capital fully mediate the relationship between proactive personality of managers and capacity for service innovation as well as service improvement of hotels, indicating that hotel managers with a proactive personality are helpful at implementing innovation.     

消解城乡二元结构的政治意蕴

城乡二元结构的长期存在造成了许多社会、经济和政治问题,随着时代的发展,城乡二元结构造成的深层次矛盾日益凸显。进入新世纪,我国总体上进入以工促农、以城带乡的发展阶段,城乡经济社会发展一体化的新格局正在逐渐形成。城乡二元结构的日益消解对于中国的现代化进程、对于中国政治发展以及对于和谐社会的构建必将具有关键性的政治意义。     

德国双元制职业教育模式探析与对比

本文主要研究德国双元制职业教育模式,从培养目标与学习形式、专业设置、教学改革和就业情况等方面分析了该教育模式的特点。并通过政、校、企合作办学、课程改革、综合素质培养以及师资队伍等四个方面对比了中德两国在职业教育上的差异。     

旅游产业发展与居民消费结构——基于1994～2009年经验数据

旅游产业的发展和居民消费结构有重要的关联,研究居民消费结构的变化对旅游产业的发展具有十分重要的意义。通过对1994～2009年旅游消费和居民消费结构有关数据的分析,发现我国旅游消费的增长速度在不断放缓,导致旅游产业的发展可能面临瓶颈。城乡二元结构对旅游消费有重要影响,城镇居民旅游消费降低与住房、医疗和教育等支出有关,农村居民旅游消费可能会发展为新的增长点。     

成渝经济区发展的基础、潜力与方向

成渝经济区作为我国区域总体战略的重要指向区域,是我国重要的人口、城镇、产业集聚区,是引领西部地区加快发展、提升内陆开放水平、增强国家综合实力的重要支撑,在我国经济社会发展中具有重要的战略地位。基于全国战略视角,从自然禀赋、产业基础、城镇分布、交通体系、人力资源等五个方面,系统阐述了成渝经济区的发展基础;分析了成渝经济区农业、工业、服务业和经济区内部空间的发展潜力,提出了成渝经济区未来的发展方向,目的是为成渝经济区更好的贯彻国家区域总体战略、实现区域经济又好又快发展提供科学支撑。     

双重二元结构下化解西部农村融资难的对策——基于演化博弈理论的研究

长期的赶超战略使我国形成了城乡和东西叠加的双重二元结构。本文通过对双二元结构下的政府政策与西部农村金融机构的支农行为进行演化博弈分析,得出如下结论:政府的激励、约束政策以及西部农村金融机构支农的净损失是影响机构支农和政府缩小双重二元结构差距目标实现的决定因素;在实现政府目标的初期,约束政策较激励政策更有效;随着政府目标实现程度的提高,激励政策将发挥更大效用;目前政府实行的单向激励政策作用不大;现阶段政府应该在强化约束政策的同时进一步加大激励政策力度,使西部农村金融机构在积极支农的同时实现可持续发展。     

企业边界与产业组织的动态演化——基于企业边界二元分析范式的综合解释

对企业边界的主流研究存在着运用交易费用理论和企业能力理论的两大范式,但均有其局限性,即停留在短期的静态分析和局限于企业层面。本文在这两大范式的基础上,把短期、静态分析推进到长期、动态分析,并着力从产业层面揭示企业边界的动态演进机制,试图实现企业边界二元范式的新综合。二元范式的综合解释说明,交易费用与企业能力,企业边界与产业边界之间是一种共同演化关系。     

双星时差频差无源定位系统定位算法工程指标分析

通过计算时差、频差测量精度,以及卫星运动引起的时差、频差变化率,提出双星时差频 差无源定位系统的信号最佳采样时间为10～100 ms。进一步推导了工程可实现的定位精 度,仿真结果表明双星系统工程可实现的定位精度约为1～3 km。研究和结论对双 星定位系统定位精度指标的论证与分解具有借鉴意义。     

Trying to complain: the impact of self‐referencing on complaining intentions

This paper introduces the Theory of Trying to complaining behaviour, and argues that complaining intentions can be explained by the model. Moreover, we model propensity to self‐reference (SR) as a moderating variable, and suggest that the effects of the causes to complaining intentions depend on the SR‐level held by consumers. A sample of undergraduate business students participated in the study, where the goal was to get a better understanding of complaining intentions. Our study provides new and additional insights in the drivers of complaining by also taking dispositional personality differences into consideration. The results demonstrate that boundary conditions for main‐effect models like the theory of trying can be fruitfully addressed through the notion of individual differences. The research documented that customers' propensity to complain systematically differed as a function of their level of self‐referencing. This is both good and bad news to managers. The good news is that a proportion of the customers rely less on their previous experiences in the complaining domain when they form intentions to complain. The bad news is that some others do. The obstacle is that managers cannot tell by the look if they are talking to an individual with high or low propensity to self‐reference. As the customer base contains both types case could be taken in designing marketing communication campaigns that target the groups differently.