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Exploring the factors that affect senior hotel managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the tourism and hospitality industry. Hotel managers feel uncertain facing this situation where the hospitality industry struggles to survive. Evidently, changes in crisis management and crisis planning practices are needed as the global pandemic continues to affect the industry. Most past studies put more emphasis on the crisis response and recovery rather than pre-crisis stage. Further, despite the negative impacts that crises,such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have on the industry, hotel managers have continued to show limited attention towards crisis planning. Therefore, this study aims to explore the pre-crisis stage through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), specifically, by gaining a deeper understanding about attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behaviour, in relation to the additional variables of perceived risk and past behaviour, in exploring the Senior Hotel Managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning. The TPB model was evolved through the addition of the two variables of perceived risk and past behaviour, in response to extant calls for researchers to further develop the TPB model.
This exploratory study involved a qualitative methodology which was founded on 21 semi-structured online interviews with Senior Hotel Managers of quarantine hotels in Western Australia. Online interviews were the only option available at the time this study was conducted which was during the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2021, where strict government guidelines, protocols and restrictions needed to be followed. A combination of non-probability convenience, purposive, and snowball sampling methods were used to recruit participants. The study gathered information from knowledgeable and experienced participants who had experienced the phenomenon that is being studied and helped to answer this study’s research questions. Senior Hotel Managers were chosen based on the following criteria: (1) Senior Hotel Managers who have worked or were presently working in quarantine hotels in Western Australia; (2) hotels that have been used or were presently being used as a quarantine facility; and (3) participants have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the data was unstructured and qualitative in nature, a computer-driven qualitative data analysis program which used machine learning to perform thematic analysis for the purposes of exploring the data, was used. Leximancer was the program which was used to identify common themes and key concepts that emerged from the data. Results showed that positive attitudes, reference groups, perceived difficulties, perceived risks, and past behaviour were considered as the factors which influenced Senior Hotel Managers’ intentions towards future crisis planning.In summary, results from this study identified five attitudes (crisis, closure, people, procedures, and timeline), four important reference groups (crisis committee, colleagues, government, and external individuals), four perceived difficulties (human resources, colleagues, time, and ambiguity), four perceived risks (human risk, management risk, and environmental risk), and three past behaviour (crisis experience, awareness, and future crisis) that played a role in the Senior Hotel Managers’ crisis planning intentions. These findings present vital theoretical and industry implications, and proffer important guidelines for future research and practices for improving future crisis planning in the hotel industry. These findings also provide lessons to other industries outside the hotel industry, and other countries beyond Australia, which can be immensely valuable during a crisis, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic
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
Crisis planning intentions among hotel managers: What have we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic?
No full textThis study investigates the motivational factors which influence future crisis planning intentions, by utilising the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as the underlying theoretical framework. This research focuses on understanding the attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control of hotel managers’ intentions regarding future crisis planning. To enhance the TPB model, the study incorporates two additional variables: perceived risk and past behaviour, thereby addressing previous calls to extend the TPB model. Employing a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews (n = 21) were conducted with hotel managers who worked at government-appointed quarantine hotels in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thematic analysis was conducted using Leximancer, an artificial intelligence (AI) data text mining software to explore the verbatim content via text mining, thematic analysis. This research provides critical insights into the determinants of crisis planning intentions among hotel managers, contributing to the theoretical and practical understanding of crisis preparedness in the hospitality industry
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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