Air route suspension: The role of stakeholder engagement and aviation and non-aviation factors

This study provides insight into how aviation and non-aviation factors affect the decision to suspend air routes. Using examples from Australian domestic routes, the paper analyses the business relationships and negotiation processes followed by airports, airlines, and destination management organizations (DMOs) to avoid air route suspensions. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with key aviation and tourism stakeholders directly impacted by suspended routes. The outcomes of this paper demonstrate that while most of the major reasons for air route suspension in Australia are mentioned in existing literature and are linked to demand, other factors have not previously been deeply investigated, including how stakeholders can be involved to avoid air route suspension. The paper also explores and identifies strengths and weaknesses in the relationship among airlines, DMOs and airports.     

Corporate social responsibility in cruising: Using materiality analysis to create shared value

Creating Shared Value hinges on the interdependence between a company's success and social welfare, and also the identification and expansion of connections between that company and society. Because critics say the concept is counterproductive, in that it focuses too narrowly on the company's economic value creation, we take a materiality analysis approach of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This approach provides evidence of what is important to stakeholders and promotes meaningful corporate disclosure, central to the Global Reporting Initiative. This study reports on a materiality analysis of the cruise industry, comparing stakeholder concerns/demands with both the relevant literature and existing CSR reports to determine to what extent the current industry definition of its social responsibility matches the expectations of its stakeholders, and subsequently, to theorise reasons for the patterns found. Results evidence that cruise companies tend to both over-report immaterial issues and under-report material issues, without responding to stakeholders' requests.     

The impact of relative residence times on the distribution of heavy drinkers in highly distinct environments

Alcohol consumption is a function of social dynamics, environmental contexts, individuals' preferences and family history. Empirical surveys have focused primarily on identification of risk factors for high-level drinking but have done little to clarify the underlying mechanisms at work. Also, there have been few attempts to apply nonlinear dynamics to the study of these mechanisms and processes at the population level. A simple framework where drinking is modeled as a socially contagious process in low- and high-risk connected environments is introduced. Individuals are classified as light, moderate (assumed mobile), and heavy drinkers. Moderate drinkers provide the link between both environments, that is, they are assumed to be the only individuals drinking in both settings. The focus here is on the effect of moderate drinkers, measured by the proportion of their time spent in “low-” versus “high-” risk drinking environments, on the distribution of drinkers.A simple model within our contact framework predicts that if the relative residence times of moderate drinkers are distributed randomly between low- and high-risk environments then the proportion of heavy drinkers is likely to be higher than expected. However, the full story even in a highly simplified setting is not so simple because “strong” local social mixing tends to increase high-risk drinking on its own. High levels of social interaction between light and moderate drinkers in low-risk environments can diminish the importance of the distribution of relative drinking times on the prevalence of heavy drinking.     

中日关系新视角：基于南海问题的分析

随着南海问题日趋复杂化和国际化,视南海地区为“海上生命线”的日本逐渐从不介入南海问题到积极插手南海事务.南海问题本是中国的内政问题,日本插手南海问题是粗暴干涉中国内政,对于中日两国的关系会带来一系列的不利影响.     

谈企业领导者的非权力性影响力

企业中,非权力性影响力体现了企业领导者本身的素质、人格、学识等修养水平,具有感召力和潜移默化的特点。良好的非权力性影响力能激发下属的工作能动性,有助于提高企业管理效能,对企业的发展与稳定起到重要的作用。     

英语听力水平提高的因素与对策分析

要运用英语进行自由沟通,听懂对方的意图是第一步。对非英语国家的学习者来说,英语听力水平的提高受多种因素的影响。该文力求通过对影响英语听力水平提高的因素进行客观、全面的分析,找到相应的解决方法,以帮助学习者达到成功运用英语的目的。     

西方绘画表现形式对电影艺术的影响

电影艺术是现代社会的产物,其艺术理论与表现手法都明显受到西方绘画的影响。绘画表现形式对于电影的影响是全方位的,影响电影艺术家创作的主要因素体现在电影画面的安排上,其中较为明显的是色彩、构图与造型三个方面。     

发展来华留学生教育对我国政治的积极影响

改革开放以来,来华留学生在数量上大幅增加,留学层次逐年提高,专业选择相对集中,获奖人数逐年增加,成就日益突出。发展来华留学生教育,有利于加强国际交流与合作,对我国政治、经济、文化建设将产生积极影响。     

The Effectiveness of a Buzz Marketing Approach Compared to Traditional Advertising: An Exploration

Marketers are now willing to go anyplace they can find a captive audience to espouse the virtues of their products. The success of the “buzz” marketing approach is linked to the consumer being lured into doing the advertising by spreading the message to others. This study compares students’ responses to a traditional advertising and a buzz approach. Using a factor analysis to identify variables, the results show that subjects perceive a buzz approach to be more influential than a traditional advertising. However, they do not perceive a buzz approach to be authentic. This finding is consistent with practitioners’ argument that, although a buzz approach may be effective in the short-term, once consumers recognize its selling intent, the program may have a “boomerang effect.”     

中国货币错配引致原因的实证分析: 1986～2005

货币错配是发展中国家普遍存在的一种经济金融现象,研究这一现象对我国汇率制度改革和金融深化过程中经济金融政策的制订具有重要的意义。文章首先简单介绍了国外对货币错配引致原因的最新研究成果,在此基础上对1986年至2005年间我国货币错配的引致原因进行了实证检验,实证结果表明,国家的经济规模、金融市场的发展水平和实际有效汇率的变动等因素对我国的货币错配程度有着显著的影响,最后结合我国货币错配现象的特点对以上因素的影响机制进行了分析。