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Forecasting China's monthly inbound travel demand
Kulendran, Nada; Shan, Jordan - 2002
China is currently expecting a growth in inbound travel demand as the result of China's “open door policy,” participation in World Trade Organization (WTO), success in hosting the Olympics in Beijing in the year 2008 and political stability. This paper focused on two issues: (1) forecasting...
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Modeling seasonality in tourism forecasting
Kulendran, Nada; Wong, Kevin K. F - 2005
Within the multiplicative seasonal ARIMA modeling context, there are two forecasting models, RIMA14 and ARIMA1. ARIMA14 is used for modeling stochastic nonstationary seasonality and requires first and fourth differences to achieve stationarity. ARIMA1 considers the series only in first...
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The antecedents of organizational commitment: the case of Australian casual academics
Joiner, Therese A; Bakalis, Steve - 2006
Purpose – Despite the increasing attention of organizational commitment in the management literature, most studies …
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Shoppers' satisfaction levels are not the only key to store loyalty
Miranda, Mario J; Konya, Laszlo; Havrila, Inka - 2005
In this research study, grocery shoppers were interviewed to identify the factors that influence satisfaction with their primary store and the factors that encourage them to continue patronising this store despite being presented with an inducement to shop at another store. The study estimated...
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Tale of two Koreas
Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007
The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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Foster’s Lager: From Local Beer to Global Icon
White, Leanne - 2009
Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse Foster’s Lager advertising since the early 1980s. In particular, it aims to focus on the Foster’s Lager “I Believe” integrated marketing communications (IMC) campaign launched in 2000 and the use of “commercial nationalism”....
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Enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business: where are the boundaries?
Breen, John P - 2004
The terms enterprise, entrepreneurship and small business are frequently used in the context of education and small business formation. Particular countries have preference for the use of the terms in specific circumstances, for example, entrepreneurship is more common in the USA and Canada,...
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The Role of the external accountant in small firms
Breen, John P; Sciulli, Nick; Calvert, Cheryl - 2004
This paper details a second stage of a study into the use of small business computerised accounting systems (CAS), together with the role and impact of the accountant across businesses that use and do not use computerised systems. The most popular accounting software product is MYOB and the CAS...
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A cross-sectional analysis of value-drivers in the knowledge economy
Oh, K. B; Bose, Sanjoy; Billington, Nicholas - 2003
assets. The perceived value-drivers are identified from two sources, firstly for the e-commerce sector the value drivers are …, equity envestment, public policy and strategic management are discussed and explained. …
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An investigation of the impact of internal labour markets in the hotel industry
Jago, Leo Kenneth; Deery, Margaret - 2004
Maintaining a stable and competitive workforce is a key element of the role of management, and there has emerged a … management tool. Past studies by labour market researchers have confirmed the value of the components of an ILM, yet none has …-supervisory hotel employees. The findings suggest that the use of a holistic ILM strategy could provide a new means for management to …
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