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The Effects of Affect-Driven Factors and Work Meaningfulness on Hospitality Employee Retention: The Application of Affective Events Theory
No full textThis study examines the effects of affect-driven factors (i.e., social support and autonomy) and the emotional mechanism on employees’ intention to stay in the hospitality industry by applying the Affective Events Theory (i.e., AET). Using the convenience sampling method, the data (n=336) were collected from the participants in the five distinctive hospitality industries: 1) lodging or accommodation, 2) food beverage, or restaurants, 3), travel & tourism, 4) entertainment & recreation, and 5) meeting & events industry. A self-administered online survey questionnaire was disseminated to the participants containing questions about social support, autonomy, emotional mechanisms, and behavioral intention as well as demographic information. The key findings of the study showed that (a) affect-driven factors significantly influence positive work events which in turn, positively influence employees’ emotions; (b) positive emotions significantly affect work-related attitudes (i.e., psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment), which positively influence hospitality employees’ intention to stay; and (c) the emotional mechanism has a full mediating effect on the relationship between supervisor support and employee retention, and between autonomy and employee retention. On the other hand, this mechanism has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between family support and employee retention. The results of the study confirmed that positive events can trigger stronger emotions driving employees’ work-related outcomes positively, which supports AET. The findings suggest that hospitality supervisors need to develop more supportive leadership to manage their employees as it is most significantly related to their emotions and retention. Lastly, the moderating role of work meaningfulness was found in the relationship between positive emotions and employee psychological well-being. Overall, the study will help researchers and practitioners demonstrate to the industry that the work environment features are essential for employee retention and facilitate to develop the work environment, enrich the jobs, maintain more positive emotions in the hospitality industry for success.Embargo status: Restricted until 01/2030. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link
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History, Legend and Lore: The Role of Storytelling in Whiskey Distillery Tourism
No full textBeverage tourism is receiving increasingly more scholarly attention. While extensive literature has explored wine and beer tourism, whiskey distillery tourism receives limited scholarly attention despite its growth. Current research suggests a positive relationship between storytelling and perception of brand equity. However, extant distillery research does not explore storytelling's role in commodifying tourist-brand relationships. This study uses a multi-phase research design to explore the relationships between distillery tour storytelling and brand equity by adapting a narrative transportation scale. Results from this study indicate that operationalizing storytelling content that focuses on the unique products and histories of distilleries can be considered a best practice. Additionally, effective visitor transportation through curated storytelling can have a positive impact on distillery brand equity.Embargo status: Restricted to TTU community only. To view, login with your eRaider (top right). Others may request the author grant access exception by clicking on the PDF link to the left
Food Culture Experiences: The Effects of Authenticity, Engagement, and Memorability on Tourist Revisit Intention
No full textThis study was undertaken to understand how local food attribute such as authenticity and tourist engagement with local culture influence tourists' memorable food cultural experiences (MFCEs). Four hundred data were collected with a sample of American tourists who visited at least one local food venue in the last three years. Using the cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) as a data analytic approach, this study proposes a conceptual framework of MFCEs, comprised of several key components of local food authenticity, tourist engagement, memorable tourist experiences (MTE), and revisit and recommend intention. The study conducted Structural Equational Modeling (SEM) for statistical analysis. The results indicated that the local food authenticity, engagement with local culture, and positive memories of food provided by the local food venue increase tourists’ revisit intention of that culture. Therefore, a culture with a strong historical value in eating and drinking local food may enhance the destination's marketing application, promoting local cuisine and culture while strengthening the region's economic growth.Embargo status: Restricted until 06/2028. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link
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Snobby or Hobby? Defining craft beer aficionados and exploring their motivations
Get PDFThe study investigates the understudied population of top craft beer consumers. Through two phases, the research uses a Delphi Study to create a definition for a Craft Beer Aficionado and examines the newly defined demographics key motivating factors towards visiting a new craft brewery
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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