Purpose: This paper aims to identify scale purification criteria for both uni- and multidimensional reflective scales and apply these criteria to an evaluation of the methodological status quo of the hospitality literature. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a literature review, the authors...

Purpose: Despite the well-established branding literature, how a brand is connected to individual, market and societal/ideological levels are largely unknown. Grounded in the belief in a just world (BJW) theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of brand positioning status...

Purpose: This paper aims to serve as an important guide for more rigorous quantitative research in tourism and hospitality. Design/methodology/approach: This paper relies on comments from several methodological experts in the field, as well as the authors’ main observation of the literature....

Purpose: This paper aims to foster a new discussion on endogeneity in hospitality and tourism research. Design/methodology/approach: This paper elaborates on some of the common sources of endogeneity and the methods available to address them. Findings: The authors present a variety of methods...

Purpose: This paper aims to focus on addressing endogeneity using instrument-free methods. The authors discuss some extensions to well-known techniques. Design/methodology/approach: This paper discusses some attractive methods to address endogeneity without the need for instruments. The methods...

Purpose: This paper aims to present several Bayesian specification tests for both in- and out-of-sample situations. Design/methodology/approach: The authors focus on the Bayesian equivalents of the frequentist approach for testing heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation and functional form...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to overcome the problems surrounding the operational performance of health care foodservice systems and provide a comprehensive comparison and analysis of the performance of all the different types of foodservice systems. The paper seeks to show that...