Throughout the centuries, business lives have been changing and modifying. Each era in history brought new needs, demands and requirements. During the Agricultural era land and tools played important roles, while during the Industrial era machines and factories played a dominant role in shaping...

The airport business is more competitive with substantial increased returns and performance. If we think of the airport as an organisation initially designed to deliver value for key stakeholders and their customers, the privatisation of an airport generates a radical change in the overall...

In the airline sector many aircraft are subject to long-term lease agreements in the belief that operating, investing and financing benefits flow to the lessee. This study aims to provide a better understanding of lease-purchase decision-making from an airline perspective. Aircraft acquisition...

Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management...

The increasing pressure from different facets of society exerted on multinational companies (MNCs) to become more philanthropic and claim ownership of their impacts is now becoming a standard practice. Although research in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has arguably been recent (see...

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to advance discussion of the efficacy of the current Australian competency training framework for credentialing and preparing front-line employees for the hospitality and tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach ? Discussion focuses on the hospitality...

The listed property trust (LPT) sector has undergone considerable change in recent years, including increased levels of international property, increased levels of debt, incorporating property development activities via use of stapled securities, significant mergers and acquisitions, and...

To date, the existing literature is very limited in its provision of links between knowledge management or intellectual capital with innovation. Existing studies have derived their innovation processes from large companies? perspectives and have not considered the needs of small and medium...

In light of alarming rises in the prevalence of obesity worldwide, tackling the obesity ?epidemic? is now a national health priority in many countries. Increasingly, population measures that provide accurate estimates of body fatness are required to assist public health organisations in...

The important role of efficiency in the health care foodservice sector has been widely addressed in the literature. Different methods for assessing performance have been proposed. In general, most measures were calculated as simple ratios such as food and labour cost per meal or limited...