Bringing the past to life: Co-creating tourism experiences in historic house tourist attractions

This ethnographic study concentrates on the co-creation of experiential value between the tourist and tour guide in a single historic tourism site; Huntingdon Castle, Ireland. Built upon the principles of service dominant logic, the research explores how storytelling acts as an engagement platform and value enhancing strategic resource. In doing so, it impels the value co-creation journey and shapes the tourist's experience. Observation is coupled with qualitative interviews to capture the dual perspective of both guides and tourists. Findings exhibit the co-creation process through the performance of stories; how and when people derive pleasure (value); the influencing aspects of the environment or place; and guide/tourist perspectives on how they feel and think during the experience. The research contributes by taking a practical operational view of how co-creation occurs. It goes beyond the guide's perspective and exhibits the importance of co-creation of lived experience in the story enhanced tourism experience framework.     

Interventionist research in accounting: reflections on the good,the bad and the ugly

Our paper advances understanding of interventionist research (IVR) as a qualitative accounting research approach. It reflects on the potential value, challenges and key issues, as manifested by the good, the bad and the ugly. The reflection contributes towards clarifying the IVR landscape, thereby forging a future path for IVR as a legitimate qualitative methodology, to enthuse qualitative researchers to produce accounting research relevant to theory, practice and society. The primary contribution is synthesising the interventionist theory and practice literature encompassing a view of the good, the bad and the ugly in interventionist accounting research.     

Operational risk and its impact on North American and British banks

This study examines the financial impact of operational risk and its loss announcements on the value of publicly traded banks in United States, UK and Canada. There are three main findings: (1) on average, the market reacts more negatively to a loss’s initial announcement than its settlement news; (2) operational loss events cause strong reputational damage to the announcing banks and (3) the market is particularly sensitive to the announcement of losses caused by internal fraud, of a large magnitude, resulted in the order of restitution, and that are the rulings of a regulatory investigation.     

二甲双胍的抗衰老效果与饮食密切相关

本文从二甲双胍已知的降血糖功效引入,解读分析多篇文章,了解二甲双胍的作用机理以及饮食因素对药效的调节作用,得到了营养物质影响二甲双胍药效的结论,摄取糖类对二甲双胍的吸收有间接影响,并进一步分析抗衰老药物问世的可能性.     

Art festival attendance: Who attends and why with implications on developing future festival attractiveness

Art festivals are an increasing part of a destination's event portfolio, asserted by destination marketing and management agencies to hopefully promote community engagement including attracting tourism, trade, and talent to the destination. With art festivals a common annual event feature at destinations, the competition for festival participation has increased, creating a greater need to isolate those festival attributes that are specifically appealing to targeted visitor segments. Examining participant profile and motives to attend the publically funded annually recurring Macau Arts Festival (MAF), the findings of this case study showed mostly community involvement with participants being mainly well educated, middle-aged, and female. While an aim of the festival, international participation in the festival was limited. A factor analysis on motives to attend the festival revealed that while there was common agreement with previous literature on reasons to attend, Macau's cultural background provided increased opportunity for the MAF to differentiate the event. Marketing implications also suggested investigating a communication strategy that could differ between attracting local and international audiences. With a significant cost to public finances, greater scrutiny on the appeal of the festival to specific local and international audiences was recommended to better present the cost to benefit argument for hosting.     

Evolution of network relations,enterprise learning,and cluster innovation networks: the case of the Yuyao plastics industry cluster

Industrial clusters have become a crucial carrier of economic globalisation. However, constrained by the nation’s industrial development model, clusters in China have long been relegated to a low-end position. This study, based on the perspective of focal enterprises, analysed the relationships among network relations, enterprise learning, and the evolution of cluster innovation networks and explored the three formation stages of a cluster innovation network by examining the example of the Yuyao plastics industry cluster. The results showed (1) that focal enterprises exert spin-off effects on enterprise learning and are critical for innovation networking and (2) that weak network ties facilitate exploratory learning, whereas strong ties influence exploitative learning. In addition, tie strength showed a coevolutionary feature. Furthermore, the results showed that (3) this evolutionary process demonstrated a phase-changing characteristic, with government policy exhibiting substantial effects on focal enterprises, organisational learning mechanisms, and cluster innovation networks.     

Making economics more useful: how technological eclecticism could help

ABSTRACT

Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing on concise, universal propositions verified through decisive tests. This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes. I further suggest that, as in engineering and medicine, developing economic recipes requires eclectic combinations of suggestive tests and judgement. Additionally, I offer a detailed example of how a simulation model can help evaluate new policy combinations that affect the screening of loan applications.     

期望失验视角的实习满意度比较研究——基于酒店、高校、学生的访谈

面对酒店行业用工短缺与酒店管理专业毕业生行业退出的困境,文章探讨酒店实习对毕业生择业意愿的影响。以期望失验理论为基础,通过对酒店经理、实习指导老师和实习生的深度访谈,对比三者的实习期望、实习感知与实习满意度及其差异。结果表明,酒店经理实习期望高,实习感知质量也高;实习指导老师实习期望低,实习感知质量也低;而实习生实习期望与实习感知的巨大落差是实习不满意的根源。论文提出酒店对实习期望重新定位,高校加强对实习的组织管理,实习生端正自己的实习态度等建议。     

带阻尼器拉索结构的索力识别研究

为解决带多个阻尼器索结构的索力识别问题,依据动力学相关理论,建立带3个减振器的拉索-减振器动力学模型,推导其频率方程,构造相应的无量纲参数并进行参数分析.结果表明:随着减振器支撑刚度的增加,无量纲振动频率逐渐增大,但这种增大趋势随支撑刚度的继续增加而趋于平缓;随着减振器安装距离的增加,无量纲振动频率逐渐增大,且这种趋势接近线性变化.最后利用有限元分析软件ANSYS并分别采用LINK单元与BEAM单元对其结论进行验证.     

Investors' evaluations of price-increase preannouncements

Several firms preannounce their price increases with the expectation that such announcements will be evaluated favorably by investors. However, little is known about the actual effect they have on shareholder value. Accordingly, the authors present the first systematic empirical examination of investors' evaluations of 274 price-increase preannouncements (PIPs). Results show that whereas the average increase in abnormal returns following a PIP is 0.51%, almost 41% of the PIPs result in negative abnormal returns. To explore this heterogeneity, the authors propose a conceptual framework that focuses on three key pieces of information that investors can use when evaluating a PIP: information on the nature (time to implementation and magnitude) of the preannounced price increase, the stated attribution for the preannounced price increase (demand and/or cost based), and information on prior PIP occurrences by the firm and its competitors. Results indicate that PIPs with greater time to implementation, higher own precedence and greater competitive precedence result in lower abnormal returns, while PIPs with higher magnitude and PIPs with an explicit demand attribution result in greater abnormal returns.