User-Generated Content (UGC) on social media platforms and product search engines is changing the way consumers shop for goods online. However, current product search engines fail to effectively leverage information created across diverse social media platforms. Moreover, current ranking algorithms in these product search engines tend to induce consumers to focus on one single product character...

Multinational …rms face two questions in deciding whether or not to outsource a stage of production. First, where should production be located? Second, who should own or control the productive assets? In this paper, we test two theories of these outsourcing decisions and we focus on the predictions for the ownership/control decision. We adapt the Antras and Helpman (2004) property rights and Gr...

Fancy a Stay at the "Hotel California"? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentive...

Spatial query which focus only on the geometrics properties of an object like points, rectangle etc. Now a day‟s many new applications which involve the queries that completely aim to return an object which satisfy equally on spatial predicate and their associated text. Spatial query takes the given location and a keyword as the input and finds the object that matches the both spatial predicate...

In order to be successful in the market it is not sufficient to attract new customers managers must concentrate on retaining existing customers implementing effective policies of customer satisfaction and loyalty. In hotel industry customer satisfaction is largely hooked upon quality of service. A management approach focused on customer satisfaction can improve customer loyalty, thus increasing...

Tourism service providers are more and more under pressure to offer products of greater complexity and diversity to meet the ever-changing demands of travelers; the individualistic consumption patterns and lifestyles makes it increasingly difficult for tourist service providers to anticipate consumer behavior and configure their services accordingly, i.e. the tourist industry must focus more on...

This qualitative study is an exploratory attempt to investigate hotel general managers’ (GMs) perceived work–family balance/interface issues from a strategic perspective. Based on 49 in-person, in-depth, in-office, interviews with full-service hotel GMs, the authors identify current strategic issue perceptions (SIPs) of hotel GMs and explore potential relationships between these SIPs and work–f...