With the growth in the number of Hospitality and Tourism programs, admission committees have become increasingly attentive to the most efficient means of selecting studen[...]

Many bed-and-breakfast inns are operated by owners who live on the property. Working at home allows the boundary between work and personal life to become permeable. This [...]

Bed and Breakfasts (BandB) represent a unique sector in the tourism industry. This study expands on previous hospitality work and life balance studies by investigating th[...]

College students‘ health-risk behaviors on spring break were examined via pre-and post-surveys. Over one-half reported getting drunk on the previous vacation and stated i[...]

Top performing salespeople are attracted to organizations that provide opportunities to make full use of their abilities. Responses from 1450 sales directors from a leadi[...]

We apply organizational identity theory to examine factors that lead family firms to create a family firm image and investigate how a family firm image impacts firm perfo[...]

Examines the effect of the quality of a salesperson's relationship with a customer on the likelihood of retaining that customer's business. Assesses the effects of high/l[...]

Research into the ethical conduct of marketers is an increasingly popular topic. At the same time, a substantial amount of recent patronage theory has been devoted toward[...]

This paper examines the effect of perceived commitment in relation to a buyer's propensity to stay in a business-to-business relationship. The findings of this study supp[...]

The issue of trust is an important one in the marketing literature. To assess the nomological validity of trust-related measures, this research uses an item-level measure[...]

Mass charter tourism is the cornerstone of development plans in the Caribbean. Unparalleled tourism investment in the post-World War II era has boosted a tourist influx o[...]

This study focuses on the creation of a family identity as a central communication objective in business storytelling. We contribute to the field of business website mark[...]

Purpose This paper aims to review existing restaurant classifications within the literature in the restaurant management field. The authors discuss intra-industry ramific[...]

Lude and Prügl explored "family business bias," a cognitive tendency where the family nature of a firm can often reduce investors' perceived risk in investments. As a res[...]

Although communication in marketing has been researched extensively, communication in buyer–seller exchanges during the sales process has received limited attention. This[...]

Within a sales context, measurement scales are often used to support both academic research and managerial decision making. Improvement in measurement scales should lead [...]

Hostility and armed conflict can exist most easily in closed societies. Social science literature suggests that increasing contact among individuals from diverse groups c[...]

This paper explores how voice-activated smart home devices (SHDs) like Amazon Alexa and Google Home influence consumers' retail information seeking and ordering behaviors[...]

In five studies, the authors examine the impact of an independent (vs. interdependent) mindset on consumer adoption of new products. Study 1 demonstrates that consumers i[...]

Muscadine wine, fresh muscadine grapes, and other derivatives have enjoyed a heritage niche for decades in the Southeast. Muscadine growers in North Carolina in the Unite[...]

This paper examines the influence of social power on consumers' propensity to defer choice. Based on the notion that elevated power reduces regret anticipation—the fear o[...]

This conceptual paper integrates needs, goals, and value/image congruence theories to propose an inclusive concept of consumer psychological engagement with companies and[...]

The modern-day sharing economy delivers a multitude of benefits to users and providers worldwide. While there is much discussion about its benefits (e.g., convenience, ac[...]

In this dissertation, Essay 1 draws upon agency theory and corporate governance to classify control enhancing corporate governance provisions and to examine the use of th[...]

The hospitality industry offers services to consumers around the clock, every day of the year. Lodging managers, in particular, are required to work long hours in a highl[...]