Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST: HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND THE TOURISM CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 2. CHANGE,WHAT CHANGE? HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING IN A CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 3. MANAGING THE PROCESS -- CHAPTER 4. PERFORMING OR IGNORING:MANAGEMENT...

This qualitative study focuses on the relationship between culture and entrepreneurship in the Torres Strait Islands. Similar to other countries with a low per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), aggregate evidence suggests that entrepreneurial activity is commonplace among the indigenous...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to permit further understanding of entrepreneurial personality characteristics of need for achievement, locus of control, innovation, risk-taking and competitive aggression by comparing the self-employed with waged and salaried workers and the general...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the entrepreneurial intentions of MBA students in Australia. Linan and Chen’s Entrepreneurial Intentions Questionnaire (EIQ) was used for this purpose which, in part, is based on Azjen’s theory of planned behaviour. Design/methodology/approach...