Drivers of hotel employee’s voice behavior: A moderated mediation model

This study developed and tested a moderated mediation model for examining the relationships among person-organization fit (P-O fit), employee voice, employees’ perceived nature of the work and employees’ perceived functional quality of their services. Using 265 frontline employees from several 3 star hotels in Taiwan, the analytical results show that P-O fit is positively related to employee voice, and that employees’ perceived nature of the work mediates the positive relationship between these two variables. The analytical results also show that employees’ perceived functional quality of their services moderates the direct effect of P-O fit on employees’ perceived nature of the work, as well as the indirect effect of P-O fit on employee voice via employees’ perceived nature of the work. Theoretical and practical implications for the hospitality literature and hotel practitioners are discussed herein.     

Semiparametric Estimation for Non-Ruin Probabilities

We consider the classical risk model with unknown claim size distribution F and unknown Poisson arrival rate u . Given a sample of claims from F and a sample of interarrival times for these claims, we construct an estimator for the function Z ( u ), which gives the probability of non-ruin in that model for initial surplus u . We obtain strong consistency and asymptotic normality for that estimator for a large class of claim distributions F . Confidence bounds for Z ( u ) based on the bootstrap are also given and illustrated by some numerical examples.     

The role of functional conflict in international buyer-seller relationships: Implications for industrial exporters

In their attempt to compete successfully in foreign markets, exporting firms must comprehend the decision-making and attitude of their overseas customers. Yet, there is a noticeable lack of research dealing with the import behavior of the firm. Focusing on import distributor firms trading with export manufacturers of industrial products, this study investigates the role of functional conflict in importer-exporter relationships. Results indicate that functional conflict is related positively to exporter cultural sensitivity and asset specificity and negatively to exporter opportunism. More importantly, importers' future purchase intentions are associated negatively with opportunism and positively with asset specificity and functional conflict. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.     

Combining attitudinal statements with choice experiments to analyze preference heterogeneity for functional dairy products

In this article, we employ a discrete choice experiment to examine preferences for functional dairy product attributes and willingness-to-pay estimates for consumers in Germany. We estimate preference heterogeneity by linking stated preference choice data not only to socioeconomic characteristics but also to attitudinal statements in a latent class framework. The empirical results indicate the existence of class-specific preference heterogeneity based on the consumers’ attitude towards functional foods, emphasizing the importance of attitudinal data in explaining consumers’ choice behavior. Our estimates demonstrate that within a class, consumers’ preferences are in accordance with their responses to attitudinal statements, that is functional food skeptics prefer non-functional dairy products, while functional food advocates have a negative preference for non-functional dairy products. The findings also show that all consumers place high value on dairy products enriched with known functional ingredients such as omega-3 fatty acids.     

Utility of gambling II: risk,paradoxes, and data

We specialize our results on entropy-modified representations of event-based gambles to representations of probability-based gambles by assuming an implicit event structure underlying the probabilities, and adding assumptions linking the qualitative properties of the former and the latter. Under segregation and under duplex decomposition, we obtain numerical representations consisting of a linear weighted utility term plus a term corresponding to information-theoretical entropies. These representations accommodate the Allais paradox and most of the data due to Birnbaum and associates. A representation of mixed event-and probability-based gambles accommodates the Ellsberg paradox. We suggest possible extensions to handle the data not accommodated.      

Do supermarkets’ emails have any value for their customers? The effect of emails’ content and interestingness on customers’ attitude and engagement

Supermarkets use relational emails mainly to foster sales and support promotional campaigns, while brands and more exclusive retailers use more non-transactional contents in order to foster a positive attitude towards their brands, but also a better customer mood. Using the Stimulus-Organism-Response framework we study the role of relational email content and interestingness of emails emanating from supermarkets on consumer’s perceived value and on their attitude and engagement towards the supermarket, but also on their mood. Building a dedicated relational email perceived value scale and comparing three types of content, this article highlights the importance of emotional value even in a utilitarian context (supermarket). A few recommendations are offered to help supermarkets to provide value-added content to their customers in order to foster preference and loyalty in a highly competitive market where discounters are gaining shares.     

后配额时代中国纺织企业发展战略研究

在分析中国纺织企业发展现状的基础上,依据波特提出的三种竞争战略:总成本领先战略、标歧立异战略和目标集聚战略,提出中国纺织企业在后配额时代的发展途径:产业集群、自主品牌建设和开发功能性纤维产品。     

寻利还是寻租——补贴制度对企业投资的影响

文章首先根据现有研究对市场中存在的功能性、选择性两种类型的政府补贴进行区分,并运用固定效应、logit与tobit模型研究了我国A股上市公司2008-2016年政府补贴对企业投资决策的影响,发现选择性补贴具有明显的人际关系化交换特征;通过对企业是否具有寻租行为与政治联系的分样本检验,发现在人际关系化下,选择性补贴具有寻租性,会占用生产性资本,表现为投资不足,而功能性补贴具有寻利性,普遍易使生产投资过度;在产业层面,通过研究两类补贴的分布特征对行业结构的影响,发现选择性补贴会更大程度地降低市场竞争性,通过logit中介效应模型与交互项检验,发现前期选择性补贴由于提高了企业投资不足的概率,增加了市场份额下降的可能性,从而市场竞争性降低;然而,尽管投资不足会增加企业退市风险,但寻租下的选择性补贴会减少企业退出市场的可能性,因此,市场竞争机制易被人际关系化下的选择性补贴扰乱。     

基于功能组团和板块设计的农业旅游规划

农业旅游的功能涵盖了休闲、生态、景观、教育、保护等内容,但由于普遍缺乏整体规划,导致我国农业旅游目前存在许多问题,功能难以充分发挥,基于此,本文结合广东梅州的案例提出了基于功能组团和板块设计的农业旅游规划的构想,以期促进现代农业旅游业的可持续发展。     

影视翻译的目的及跨文化传播作用

影视翻译的社会功能之一就是促进文化交流,传播多元化的文化和价值观。影视翻译的目的则是要生动、自然、流畅地传达出源语的意义及其蕴含的文化内涵。译者需要有一定的语言运用能力、文化鉴赏能力和艺术审美能力,以及高度的社会责任感,要灵活运用各种翻译手段,积极促成影视作品的跨文化之旅。