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destination's goal progress information in advertising messages non-linearly influences tourists' motivation to visit the …Promoting a destination challenges tourism managers when potential visitors have mixed images. Extending Koo and … destination. A sample of 114 potential tourists was assigned randomly to scenarios employing a 2 (goal progress frame: to-date vs …
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Over the years since airline deregulation five of the remaining U.S. legacy carriers lost money on mergers that cost them a total of $29.6 billion. The combined market cap of these carriers at the end of 2007 was $15.5 billion. In other words, their return on merger investments was -48%. Why?...
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Improving business performance, profits, as well as economic growth in the globalisation age becomes vital for enterprises which efficiently and effectively foster and meet the reasonable expectancies of their stakeholders - consumers, employees, suppliers, investors, community and environment -...
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Persuasion is a fundamental part of social activity, yet it is rarely studied by economists. We compare the traditional economic model, in which persuasion is communication of objectively valuable information, with a behavioral model, in which persuasion is an effort to fit the message into the...
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In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of the firm's proactive management of consumer-to-consumer …
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This paper provides empirical evidence that industry-specific non-financial metrics, whose disclosure is mandated by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for the ten largest U.S. airlines, have explanatory power for top executive pay-for-performance relations beyond that provided by...
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In this paper, we evaluate growth stocks by modeling a company's customer equity. We start with the observation that the number of customers in successful start-ups increases very quickly (exponentially) in the first few years. Then the customer base converges towards an industry average. On the...
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In this study we examine the possible reasons for firing of ad agencies and relate them to the stock price consequences of such firings using event-study methodology. After analyzing a variety of performance measures for profitability, sales, and market share of the client firms prior to the...
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We demonstrate that people discount delayed task outcomes due to perceived changes over time in supplies of slack. Slack is the perceived surplus of a given resource available to complete a focal task. For temporally near events, investing a resource for one purpose may cause one to fail to...
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