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Challenges for the global hospitality industry: an HR perspective

Bharwani, Sonia; Butt, Neetu - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 4 (2012) 2, pp. 150-162

Purpose – This research aims at evaluating and discussing developments and key challenges for the hospitality industry in an emerging global context and the impact of these changes on human resource development and management. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses qualitative primary...

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Sustainable tourism and global warming: panacea, excuse, or just an accidental connection?

Korstanje, Maximiliano E.; George, Babu - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 4 (2012) 4, pp. 383-394

Purpose – The debate linking tourism with global warming is very polemical: neither camp engaged in the debate sees the other side. Sustainable tourism is seen by some as a panacea to mitigate the negative impact of tourism on global warming, and by many others as a ploy planted by...

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An analysis of post-pandemic scenarios and prospects for the shipping industry: perspective from Guadeloupe

Ferriera, Mylène Rémi - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 14 (2022) 2, pp. 147-155

Purpose The maritime port in Guadeloupe, a French island in the Lesser Antilles, is set to be transformed into a major logistics hub catering to the Greater Caribbean and the Lesser Antilles. The increase in shipping generated by expansion of the Panama Canal and the development of the cruise...

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An assessment of international liquidity and higher oil prices

Al‐Roubaie, Amer - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 3, pp. 161-180

Energy represents an important component of production costs and therefore, an increase in energy prices directly impacts economic productivity, unemployment, inflation, and balance of payments equilibrium – often engendering currency devaluations. Until recently, the growth in demand for...

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Globalization: a theoretical reflection

Ndhlovu, Tidings P. - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 2/3, pp. 95-112

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and situate globalization within the context of different … explore, synthesize and interpret globalization. Evidence is marshalled in order to enable comparative assessments on the …. Originality/value – This paper develops a critique that locates globalization within the process of accumulation and teases out …

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Learning from praxis

Murthy, Vikram - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 1, pp. 33-47

Purpose – This paper uses a number of current examples from a variety of industries both regional and global, to explore the relationship between business longevity, environment, and adaptiveness to argue that only adaptive responses contingent on a proper classification of external...

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Modeling firm resources –enterprise risk management relationships

Abd Razak, Noraznira; Ab Rahman, Zuriah; Borhan, Halimahton - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 12 (2016) 1, pp. 35-49

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus, explore, and provide an in-depth analysis of the relationship between company resources and the process of enterprise risk management (ERM) in order to strengthen corporate structures against emerging uncertainties. Design/methodology/approach...

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The determinants of ASEAN-5 real effective exchange rate vis-á-vis the UK pound

AbuDalu, Abdalrahman; Musa Ahmed, Elsadig - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 2, pp. 98-118

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical analysis of long-run and short-run forcing variables of purchasing power parity (PPP) for ASEAN-5 currencies vis-à-vis the UK pound, i.e. their real effective exchange rate (REER). Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a...

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Toy commercials across Europe

de Iulio, Simona; Jarrin, Zouha - In: Young Consumers 5 (2004) 4, pp. 39-45

Compares toy commercials in France, Germany and Italy in relation to globalisation, which is claimed to produce a uniform consumer culture. Investigates the roles performed by different territories (international, national, regional and local) in advertising directed at children of these...

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Quality standards development in a hypercompetitive scenario

Conti, Tito - In: The TQM Magazine 11 (1999) 6, pp. 402-408

Standards play an increasingly important role in the development of the “global village”, both from the economic and the quality of life perspective. However, development of standards should always be in tune with the needs of a free economy, whose main engine is differentiation....

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