Doing More with Less: Women's Leisure During Their Partners’ Military Deployment

Women whose partners have been deployed on military missions during wartime typically experience increased stress as they adjust to maintaining work, family, and household roles. The purpose of this study was to explore leisure in the lives of women during their partners’ deployment. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 10 employed mothers whose partners had been deployed for at least a six-month period. Findings indicated that the loss of daily support from partners and concern for partners’ safety contributed to women shifting their focus from individual to family leisure as a means of coping and caring for their children.     

Perspectives on Leisure of LDS Women Who Are Stay-at-Home Mothers

The purpose of this study was to explore the meanings of leisure for women who belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lived in Utah, and were stay-at-home mothers. Particular attention was given to the religious, cultural, and role-determined forces that shaped their lives and leisure. A phenomenological approach was used. Thirteen women were identified through a criteria-based snowball sampling technique. Emerging theory indicated that cultural beliefs and values can contribute to feelings of entitlement to leisure because of the support for leisure and life roles given by one's faith, family, and community.     

Forms of body usage in tourists’ experiences of flamenco

This study explores the role of the human body in tourism and focuses on cultural tourists’ experiences of flamenco dance and music in Seville, Spain. It is suggested that the tourists who fully engage in flamenco activities use their bodies towards different ends. First, through disciplined practice, tourists seek to remedy a lack of self-esteem. Second, bodies are used in order to fulfill the need for self-expression and self-exploration. Third, tourists use flamenco as a means to differentiate themselves from other social groups, and bodies are used to contest established social structures. These findings point to the centrality of the body in understanding tourists’ practices and the construction of embodied identities.     

Applying mixed methods to identify what drives quick service restaurant's customer satisfaction at the unit-level

The current study addresses issues related to developing a set of critical quality attributes. The primary research objective was to address drawbacks of importance–performance method and develop a novel approach that identifies satisfaction drivers for unit-level quick service restaurant (QSR). The new approach is based on synthesis of qualitative, PRCA, and importance grid methods. Basic (taste, temperature, and accuracy), performance (friendliness) and excitement (cleanliness, speed, and ease of understanding) factors were identified for a QSR context. The current findings help to resolve the problem of performance optimization and identify an optimal set of QSR attributes to allocate resources. Taste, temperature, and accuracy must be ensured as top priority. Then, friendliness should also be ensured and only after that the resources should be allocated to cleanliness, speed, and ease of understanding. Generalizability of the findings is bounded by the fact that only one QSR chain was examined. Additionally, only a limited number of QSR attributes was examined.     

Psychological contract fulfillment in the hotel workplace: Empowering leadership,knowledge exchange,and service performance

This study developed and tested a group-level model involving empowering leadership, psychological contract fulfillment, knowledge exchange, and service performance. In 28 Taiwan's tourism hotels, data stem from 56 hotel departments and comprise 258 employees was used to test the research hypotheses through structural equation model. We found that, as anticipated, empowering leadership was positively related to psychological contract fulfillment and knowledge exchange; psychological contract fulfillment was positively related to knowledge exchange and service performance; and knowledge exchange was positively related to service performance. This study highlighted that psychological contract fulfillment partially mediated the relationship between empowering leadership and knowledge exchange; knowledge exchange fully mediated the relationship between psychological contract fulfillment and service performance. Theoretical and practice implications, limitations, and suggestions for future were presented.     

专利信息挖掘：企业竞争情报服务的新模式

专利作为重要的文献资源蕴藏着大量的信息。从专利信息在实施创新驱动战略的重要地位、在竞争情报中的作用以及提升竞争情报服务收益的新路径三个方面,探讨了省级综合科技信息机构如何通过专利信息挖掘、定向传输、同企业固有技术基础实现显性对接,实现企业群体自身拥有持续创新能力。     

欧美“再工业化”与中国制造业竞争力

自2008年经济危机爆发以来,全球各经济体均受到了不同程度的冲击,欧美国家“再工业化”战略的实施,加之劳动力生产成本的相对上升、能源原材料价格的不断上涨、对产品标准日趋严格的市场准入等国际国内形势,恶化了中国制造业的国际竞争环境。文章通过对中国贸易竞争力指数的测度,分析再工业化及其他因素对其产生的可能影响,提出相应的对策建议：深度参与国际分工、加强自主创新能力建设、积极参加国际规则的制定,并利用生产者服务业的创新形成与制造业的融合,最终促进制造业竞争力的提升。     

建国前毛泽东的群众工作经验探寻

毛泽东的群众工作经验来自于其丰富的工作实践。从建国前20多年的群众工作经验来看,“人民大众”的界定是做好群众工作的基础;维护群众利益是做好群众工作的核心;调查研究是做好群众工作的基本方法;保持党的纯洁性是做好群众工作的根本保证。     

审计师变更、审计师任期与审计收费关系研究——基于2001~2003年的实证分析

审计收费是审计服务供需双方就审计服务供求所达成的价格,一些国家审计市场表现出审计收费降低的趋势。要求上市公司披露财务审计费用,为充分揭示我国审计师变更、审计师任期与审计收费的关系提供了数据资料。本文从研究我国审计市场现状入手,提出了审计师变更、审计师任期与审计收费关系的假设。通过对我国2001年、2002年与2003年数据的检验,结果发现审计师变更并没有带来明显的审计收费下降,同样审计师任期的延长也没有带来审计收费的下降,与我国目前一些关于审计收费研究的结论不一致,说明我国并不存在明显的审计收费的恶性竞争。