Human capital in the Dubai hotel industry: A study of four- and five-star hotels and the HR challenges they face

Dubai brands itself as an international leisure and business center and home to the luxury hotel market. While hotel growth has been, and continues to be rapid, little is known about hotel employees, their demographics or how they feel about working in this industry. This article reports the findings of what is the first review of Dubai hotel human capital, noting there are significant difference in workforce demographics to other countries, for example, it is male dominated, highly educated, and employees note positive levels of organizational social capital. It also highlights potential challenges going forward.     

Loyalty toward online food delivery service: the role of e-service quality and food quality

This study assesses the direct influence of food quality and e-service quality on customer loyalty toward online food delivery (OFD) service and its indirect influence through the mediation of customer satisfaction and perceived value. This study uses a survey of 405 OFD service customers from Bandung, Indonesia. By applying variance-based partial least squares to evaluate the proposed model, this study confirms the direct effect of food quality on online loyalty, but not e-service quality. Further, this study discloses the partial mediation role of customer satisfaction and perceived value on the relationship between both food quality and e-service quality on online loyalty toward OFD services.     

Bibliometric analysis of absorptive capacity

This study contributes to our understanding of absorptive capacity (AC) by reviewing AC articles systematically using two types of blibliometric co-citation analysis – bibliometric co-citation and bibliometric cartography – for the last 25 years. In total, we analyzed 336 articles (using HistCite) and 2088 articles (using VOSviewer), respectively, finding five research streams in AC: (1) intra-organizational learning; (2) inter-organizational learning; (3) knowledge transfer; (4) dynamic capability; and (5) micro-foundations. This integrative literature review of AC adds to the categorization of the literature, links the international business research to AC, and provides promising future research directions. Our study gives detailed information about the development of each research stream by measuring the number of publications in each stream over 25 years using bibliometric cartography analysis. Based on the literature, we propose 26 future research questions for these five research streams.     

浅析女装设计中的“儿童化”倾向

随着时代快速的发展,人们对于服装的要求已不简单是功能性与技术性,更加关注服装带给人的情感需要。"儿童化"的女装设计运用逆向思维将童趣理念载入服装中,形成一种稚趣、幽默、俏皮、轻松的设计风格,将成年女装实现了"减龄化",迎合了人们对服装的情感需要,在这个宣扬年轻的社会中为成年女性着装多提供了一种选择。本文分析了女装"儿童化"设计的造型特征、色彩与图案、材料、配饰几方面的表现手法,探讨了儿童语言在成年女装中的运用。     

Factors Influencing Consumer Purchasing Decision Toward Malang Meatballs At East Java,Indonesia

The study examined factors influencing consumers' purchasing behaviour in relation to Malang meatballs as a representative ethnic food in East Java, Indonesia. Multistage area sampling was used to randomly select 400 households from the Malang area (200 urban and 200 rural) as consumer respondents. Respondents were interviewed using a structured questionnaire by the researcher and enumerators. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyse consumers' purchasing behaviour toward Malang meatballs. This study can contribute to a better understanding of consumers' preferences toward Malang meatballs, an animal protein-based food, that has a unique taste. Consumers preferred Malang meatballs compared to street foods (i.e., “soto,” “tahu campur,” and fried noodles). Younger consumers concerned about freshness and a “halal food” may select Malang meatballs. The availability of Malang meatballs can increase consumers' purchasing action toward this product. Also, surrounding cold air temperature influenced consumers in selecting this food.     

虚拟化测控站体系结构设计与关键技术

随着测控任务日渐密集，任务类型的多样性、复杂性不断增长，传统测控站封闭的体系结构在应对未来测控需求方面存在较多的技术短板。在对比分析国内外同类技术发展的基础上，提出了以综合基带虚拟化和软件定义网络技术为基础、以资源池为核心的新一代测控站体系结构，分析了测控站功能域与实现方法，设计了基于OpenFlow协议的测控站网络。设计了多星测控实验，验证了虚拟化测控站的优势。实验结果表明，当前商用设备的虚拟化率不低于1.25。     

Factors affecting profitability of multi-finance company in Indonesia

The aim of this study is to examine the profitabilily of multi-finance companies. This study uses macroeconomic determinants and fundamental variables as factors that affected profitability. The samples of the study was multifinance company in Indonesia over period 2005-2007. The study uses an unbalanced panel data as a methodology. The result suggests that, the ownership of financial assets doesn＇t significantly affect multi-finance performances. This result indicates that multi-finance face difficult situation to generate profit from the credit given. And the result also suggests that all macroeconomic determinants affect multi-finance profitability, with more concern on inflation that have negative significant.     

Leisure Involvement,Job Satisfaction,and Service Performance among Frontline Restaurant Employees

The importance of employee leisure involvement to employee service performance has been suggested but not tested in the literature. This study closes this research gap by inspecting the direct consequence of leisure involvement on service performance and leisure involvement’s indirect effect on service performance via job satisfaction for frontline service employees. This study uses a sample of 313 restaurant employees collected from Bandung, Indonesia. The proposed model is tested using variance-based SEM-PLS. The results show the importance of leisure involvement as a determinant of frontline service performance. Moreover, this study reveals that the effect of leisure involvement on service performance is partially mediated by job satisfaction. The conceptual and practical significance of these results are reviewed.     

东北地区耕地利用效率时空差异及其影响因素分析

[目的]对东北地区36个市(州)2005~2014年耕地利用效率进行测度,分析其时空差异,并找出耕地利用效率的影响因素。[方法]利用数据包络分析(DEA)方法计算得出各年各地区效率值,并利用Tobit回归模型其影响因素。[结果]2005~2014年东北地区耕地利用效率相对较高,规模效率值较为稳定,纯技术效率值波动上升,纯技术效率始终是影响综合效率的主要原因;黑龙江省的综合效率水平高于吉林省与辽宁省;在分解效率方面,黑龙江省的纯技术效率水平高于吉林省与辽宁省,吉林省的规模效率高于黑龙江省与辽宁省;受区域农业发展水平影响,不同地区农业投入的资源水平存在差异,综合效率、纯技术效率和规模效率均呈现出由黑龙江省向吉林省、辽宁省扩张的空间格局;从影响因素来看,受灾面积占农作物播种面积比重、单位耕地面积农用机械总动力、单位耕地面积施肥量、农村劳动力人均播种面积共同作用于东北地区耕地利用效率。[结论]东北地区耕地利用效率时空差异明显,多种因素共同影响地区耕地利用效率。     

既要绿水青山，也要金山银山：企业环保负担的弱化机制与实证检验

环境规制既能促使工业企业增加环保投入,也会加重其财务负担.制定合理的产业政策,弱化环保投入造成的财务负担,是科学处理环境保护与企业发展关系的关键.本文从源头端政府创新激励与末端产业化环保治理两个维度,讨论企业环保负担的弱化机制及国有企业的异质性,并手动收集A股制造业上市企业样本数据进行实证检验.结果表明,源头端技术创新激励及利用专业企业进行末端产业化环保治理两种机制能够缓解环保投入给企业财务造成的压力,但机制的有效性存在一定条件约束.国有企业的政策工具属性,会弱化源头端创新机制的激励效果.政府为发挥国企的环保示范作用,可能造成国企的末端环保投入过大,降低末端产业化治理的效率.随着更严厉的环保法规出台,地方政府可能给予企业过度的环保激励,进而降低产业化治理的收益.