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Adapting to Disruption: How Traditional Licensed Accommodations Are Embracing Airbnb through Collaborative Competition
Get PDFThis paper examines how licensed accommodations respond to Airbnb disruption. It focuses on the emerging strategy of ‘collaborative competition,’ where licensed accommodations use Airbnb’s platform as a distribution channel, blending collaboration, with competition. The study highlights a significant shift in business strategy in response to Airbnb\u27s disruption, illustrating initial resistance and retaliation to strategic engagement. This study contributes to the broader understanding of the impact of Airbnb on licensed accommodations and highlights the importance of agility, innovation, and strategic collaboration in the face of disruption, offering valuable insights for both academics and practitioners in the field of hospitality management
Sin in Business: The Contributions of Perversion, Defilement, and Idolatry
Get PDFFar from being a parochial concern with the ritual observances of the faithful, sin is the fundamental problem of life for all people. It encompasses all of the violations of the peace that a person has or should have with God, themselves, others, and even the natural environment. These violations occur as people pervert parts of God’s good creation away from their created purposes and toward unworthy ones, disrupting the interdependent order of creation and defiling themselves and their objects in the process. It moreover is self-reinforcing, gaining a power over people that makes future sins more difficult to resist, sometimes even against the earnest desires and better judgment of the sinner. This self-reinforcement results from the defilement (or pollution, or corruption) that is the result of sin, and from the defiling practices of disciplined pursuits of instrumental goods that comprise idolatry. An understanding of sin in business ethics helps people of conscience in the workplace to recognize both perversions of God’s intended peace, and the entrapping power of defilement and idolatry, in common business practices; it also helps to highlight the good news that while human efforts cannot solve these problems, God’s sovereign grace can and does
Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem: Perspectives from Providers on the Frontline
Get PDFGlobal destabilization has resulted in nearly 110 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. Sanctuary cities like Chicago have become “migrant hubs,” seeing thousands of migrants enter the city to access shelter and resources. City officials have called for more support, as the number of migrants has outweighed the number of migrant service providers.
Migrant service organizations play an integral role in the resettlement journey of migrants. These organizations provide direct and indirect services to support their clients. However, as the migrant crisis continues to worsen, it threatens the social safety net established by governments and immigrant serving nonprofit agencies that work to meet the needs of these vulnerable individuals.
This study took a qualitative case study approach to understand Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem through the perspectives of migrant service providers who are at the frontline of two global public health crises—the COVID-19 pandemic and the migrant crisis. Guided by the Transformative Refugee Service Experience Framework (Boenigk et al., 2020) and using an ecological lens, this study utilized the RADAR technique (Watkins, 2017) and systemic thematic analysis (Naeem et al., 2023) to conceptualize Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem and identify what ecosystemic factors positively or negatively influence migrant service organizations’ ability to successfully serve their clients.
Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem is conceptualized as a system composed of three ecological levels: individual, organization, and macrosystem. Findings support the interrelatedness and interdependence among these levels, from macrosystemic factors such as governmental policy to service organizations to individuals who are both recipients and providers of migrant services. Stakeholders within the ecosystem interact to ensure migrant needs are met. Chicago’s Migrant Serving Ecosystem is hospitable when the system supports interdependency, resource cycling and adaptation. Stressors such as hostile services, lack of organizational capacity, public health crises and sociopolitical climate threaten the fragility of the ecosystem. Findings from this study inform recommendations to ameliorate the dire migrant crisis
Effects of Receiving Peer-Status Feedback on Chinese Adolescents
Get PDFPrevious research has demonstrated the negative impacts of social status insecurity on adolescents’ behavior and mental health. Hence, there is an urgency in exploring mechanisms that may alleviate adolescents’ concerns about their peer status. The present study is the first to 1) use an experimental design to examine the effect of providing feedback on adolescents’ peer status in an attempt to reduce or induce their social status insecurity and 2) investigate how these changes would influence adolescents’ immediate outcomes such as present mood, behavior intentions, and social status goals. Participants were 465 high school students (253 boys; Mage = 16.64, SDage = .99) from a low-income county in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. This study was a 2 (Gender: Boy vs. Girl) x 2 (Status type: Popularity vs. Likability) x 3 (Feedback type: Positive vs. Negative vs. No feedback) quasi-experimental between-subject design. Participants imagined that they received positive feedback (favorable to their expected status), negative feedback (unfavorable to their expected status), or no feedback on their peer status. Contrary to the hypotheses, the results showed that popularity status insecurity slightly increased regardless of the valence of the feedback that participants imagined receiving. This finding suggests that reducing adolescents’ feelings of insecurity about their peer status, especially their popularity status, is challenging. Moreover, feedback on peer status is more likely to influence adolescents’ present mood rather than their subsequent behavior and social status goals. Furthermore, this study revealed some novel relationships between social status insecurity and various individual characteristics. High resilience and self-worth and low social sensitivity are protective factors against adolescents experiencing social status insecurity. These findings illuminate some potential mechanisms behind the development and negative effects of social status insecurity and provide important research and practical implications
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Get PDFTelework in a Digitalizing Hotel Landscape
Get PDFAs many work processes grow more digitalized, jobs traditionally thought only to be executed on-site can be done remotely, even in hospitality industry operations. Using a full-service hotel as a case study, this research sought to understand the structure and benefits of telework roles in the front office and hybrid roles in the housekeeping department. Findings show that employee perceptions of telework and hybrid work were generally viewed as positive with no negative guest impact, challenges were solely focused on communication and mitigating those, and human resource considerations revolve around telework as a retention tool and ensuring employees feel deserving of the role. Implications for industry are discussed based on the findings
Counting on the Family: Family Cohesion and its Relationship to PTG
Get PDFThe current study aimed to understand how an adolescent’s perceived family cohesion predicts post-traumatic Growth (PTG). Although relatively new to Psychology, there is extensive literature on PTG and its relationship with social support. However, there is not as much research exploring family cohesion as it relates to PTG. A cohesion focus provides insight into the importance of emotional connectedness in social support and its impact on adolescent PTG. Moreover, we investigated the relationship family cohesion has with PTG across Hispanic and non-Hispanic adolescents to see if there was any significant variance given cultural differences in the role of family. Our recruitment sample (N = 414) focused on adolescents attending Chicago public schools who completed surveys assessing ethnic background, stressful life experiences, family relationships, and PTG. Results indicated a significant relationship (both cross-sectionally and longitudinally) between family cohesion and PTG, however, there were no significant differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic adolescents. Additionally, results revealed a significant correlation between family cohesion and stressful life experiences. Similarly, these results were not significantly different between Hispanic and non-Hispanic adolescents. Importantly, though the expected differences between groups were not supported by our results, the study supported our hypothesis that emotional connectedness as it relates to social support may be an important catalyst for PTG in adolescents
Can We Help You with Your Bootstraps? How First-Generation Graduate Students Can Use Relationships to Transform Universities
Get PDFAs a result of the abundance of literature on first-generation undergraduate students, several support programs and resources have been developed to assist this population throughout their undergraduate career. However, graduate school can pose a whole new set of challenges for first-generation graduate students, which can result in poor outcomes (Martinez et al., 2009; Wilcox et al., 2021). It is therefore necessary to increase attention on first-generation graduate students. An explanatory-sequential mixed method research design, with an intersectional lens, was used to answer how first-generation graduate students rely on university relationships to be well and what institutional barriers exist to achieving well-being. First, a quantitative component sought to corroborate what is already known in the literature about first-generation graduate students, but with a specific sample, regarding their needs. Second, a qualitative component explored, in more detail, the institutional barriers that can be eliminated through an increase in community relationships as a way to move towards relational empowerment. A survey asking about sense of belonging, confidence in ability, number of supportive people, and resource need was distributed to graduate students (N = 485). Later, five focus groups were held with first-generation graduate students (N = 18) in which participants discussed mutual support, well-being, and institutional factors. It was found that first-generation graduate students had greater need for identity-based resources at the university compared with continuing-generation students. In addition, first-generation students who identified as being from other marginalized groups reported higher resource needs. Qualitatively, thematic analysis revealed key themes of absence (of the dissemination) of knowledge, neoliberalism, university supports, isolation, and mutual support. Together, these results indicate that first-generation graduate students use relationships, primarily in their programs, to get their needs met, but more work needs to be done to transmit knowledge from a university level down to the graduate students
Guest Retention for Casinos: An Analysis of Online versus In-Person Gambling
Get PDFOver time, technological advancements have led to a shift from physical gambling to online platforms. While physical casinos thrive, the escalating popularity of online gambling poses a challenge to customer retention. This study explores the impact of online gambling on casino resorts and devising strategies for market survival. Through qualitative interviews with casino managers and directors of sales and marketing in the United States, the study aims to elucidate the implications of online gambling platforms, reasons for choosing casinos, and operational adjustments for effective competition. This study can contribute valuable insights for casino managers by analyzing guest motivations for gambling, learning more about online gambling, and potential marketing strategies for in-person casinos. Moreover, casino managers can potentially use the study’s findings to implement effective strategies that increase guest retention and attract new visitors to their casinos
Frédéric Ozanam’s Lay Vision of Reform: The Transformation of His Church and His World
No full textAhead of his time, Frédéric Ozanam believed that the laity should play an essential role in what he termed the regeneration of the Church, which would lead to the regeneration of society. This would “occur only if Catholic laypersons understood that they had an obligation to transform themselves and then to use their talents to better their Church and their world.” Transformation was to touch all the religious, social, economic, and political aspects of life. In this spirit, he founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul: “the transformation of the individual members, and thereby the transformation of the society in which they lived, was the express intention of this network of charity and justice.” An advocate for what would be termed inclusion today, he thought the Church must champion the rights of the common people, especially workers, including the right to participate in politics. His economic and political views were complex. He did not support socialism. He believed in the separation of Church and state, but he also wanted “a democracy responsive to the Christian principles of the dignity of every person and the common good.” The article gives the social, political, and economic context of Ozanam’s thought