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Using relational leadership theory to magnify actors' dynamic participation: the implementation of corporate social responsibility practices in the hospitality sector
Full text linkPurpose: In this paper, we propose the application of relational leadership theory for magnifying the dynamics involving the individual who participates in the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility practices in the hospitality sector. Dominant theories in this field, fail to show what drivers affect such dynamics. The key preoccupation of those frameworks is the extent to which CSR can attract, motivate, and retain employees.
Design/methodology/approach: We use both qualitative and quantitative methods. Through a quantitative survey involving circa 1,300 hotels, and qualitative semi-structured interviews we seek to unpick what actors identify as sustainable practice driving motives, which in turn influence the implementation of corporate social responsibility initiatives. In this perspective, actors drift away from being mere receivers, or executors of sustainable practices, acquiring a more active role. We collect our qualitative data through semi-structured interviews in hotels in Italy, the UK and Pakistan, and run the quantitative survey across the same three countries.
Findings: Our quantitative data showed a significant positive correlation between economic incentive, and teamwork on corporate social responsibility practices. This aligned with the qualitative data that showed two main drivers - responsibility and convenience – displaying characteristics of collectivity and collaboration, which tie to the principles of relational leadership theory.
Research implications: We posit the relevance of relatedness at multiple levels to spot how corporate social responsibility initiatives can produce varying ‘hospitality work’ outcomes.
Originality: By focusing on actors and identifying the driving motives of sustainable initiatives, our paper suggests that leaderful practice stands at the core of corporate social responsibility implementation
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MGM Marmi: challenging tradition with entrepreneurial leadership and business communication
No full textThis case explores the concept of entrepreneurial leadership. It aims to foster students’ reflection on leadership roles and traits and on the barriers, challenges, and opportunities new leaders and entrepreneurs face when they take over the management of an established, family-owned business. The case focuses on MGM Marmi, a family-owned company established in 1960 in Italy, before and after the company was formally taken over by the founder’s successor. Particular attention is paid to the figure of Laura Olivari, the wife of Umberto Guarda, the founder’s son, and the impact she exerted on the company.
The difficulty level of this case is appropriate for first year undergraduate students who are toward the end of an organizational behaviour module or for second-year undergraduates at the beginning of a leadership module. Aspects of business communication, diversity, and culture (à la Hofstede) are encompassed in the case context; therefore, students’ prior knowledge of such issues may facilitate discussion. The case is designed to be taught in a one-hour seminar and is expected to require one hour of individual preparation for students. Although it aims to foster a critical evaluation of the actor’s profile against the major leadership theories suggested, it also hopes to stimulate students to reflect upon the consequences that roles and traits may exert on a company’s choices. The company website indicated in the text and bibliography enrich the case-study experience by showing the products of the company as well as its presence in the national and international press.
This case was prepared for classroom discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative, ethical, or legal decision by management. Information was gathered from public as well as corporate sources
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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The nexus of human resource management, corporate social responsibility and sustainable performance in upscale hotels: a mixed-method study
Full text linkConsidering the significance of the human resource management (HRM) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) relationship, the aim of this research is twofold: first is to measure the cultural differences between HRM, CSR and sustainable performance relationship (study 1) and second is to identify the how HRM instigates CSR and sustainable performance (study 2) in the hospitality industry of UK and Pakistan. A mixed-method approach was used to collect the qualitative and quantitative data from upscale hotels. In Study 1, a multi-respondent and time-lagged strategy was employed to collect the data from 162 Pakistani and 290 UK upscale hotels. In Study 2, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand the HRM-CSR-performance nexus. The results of Study 1 highlight the significant cultural differences in the relationships of HRM-CSR-performance, while Study 2 explains that ethical culture, shared objectives, transparency, training and development, and economic incentives are the factors that push the employees to take part in CSR-related activities and attaining higher sustainable performance. This study addresses the debate on the difference between cross-cultural studies related to implementing Western theories in shaping, developing and implementing business strategies, including CSR, HRM and sustainable performance in an Asian context
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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