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The purpose of this paper is to present a model, which assesses the wide range of data offered in non-financial reports, and enables benchmarking of these data between different…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a model, which assesses the wide range of data offered in non-financial reports, and enables benchmarking of these data between different organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
This work uses aspects of fuzzy logic and qualitative comparative analysis to build fuzzy sets, which form the basis of the benchmarking tool.
Findings
The model presented permits the identification of both negative and positive aspects of an organization’s CSR actions, and shows where improvements can be made by highlighting the standards reached by others.
Originality/value
The model offers a benchmarking tool that allows analysis of non-financial reporting, something missing from the field of CSR until now. Additionally, it offers a new approach where data sets are constructed to measure environmental/social impact in function of each unit of economic value generated. This approach aligns social/environmental and economic performance, thereby emphasizing the interconnectivity of a company’s financial, social and environmental bottom lines.
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Lori L. Leachman, Bill Francis and Ivan Marcott
This paper tests for longrun relationships among the national equity markets of the G'7 countries using the Engle‐Granger two‐step procedure. Results indicate that cointegration…
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This paper tests for longrun relationships among the national equity markets of the G'7 countries using the Engle‐Granger two‐step procedure. Results indicate that cointegration is the norm among these seven equity markets in the post‐Bretton Woods period. Further, market adjustments to system equilibria are accelerating as one moves toward the present implying that markets are becoming more integrated.
Ivan Ka Wai Lai and Jose Weng Chou Wong
Given the increasing number of travel restrictions, the COVID-19 outbreak has dealt a crippling blow to the hotel industry, and the crisis management practices supporting the…
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Purpose
Given the increasing number of travel restrictions, the COVID-19 outbreak has dealt a crippling blow to the hotel industry, and the crisis management practices supporting the industry needs are changing as the pandemic continues. This study aims to compare how the hotel industry has responded to this crisis at the initial stage and the pandemic stage.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from hotel managers in Macau in two occasions, namely, early February and early April 2020. Importance-usage-performance analysis was conducted to classify six categories of practices (pricing, marketing, maintenance, human resources, government assistance and epidemic prevention) into four executable crisis management strategies (priority, maintain, low priority and possible overkill) for each stage. Follow-up in-person interviews were conducted to validate the results of the study.
Findings
In the initial stage, priority strategies should be applied in all epidemic prevention, pricing and maintenance practices and in two governmental assistance and human resources practices. In the pandemic stage, all epidemic prevention practices remain at the priority quadrant, but two pricing practices are downgraded. Hotels tended to force labour into unpaid vacations (furlough) and postpone office and system maintenance. Governmental assistance should be at a low priority.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the knowledge of contingency planning for crisis management across crisis periods. It also demonstrates the processes of importance-usage-performance analysis for researchers to undertake further studies in tourism crisis management. Timely recommendations for governments and hotel industry stakeholders are provided to cope with this crisis.
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Clive Bingley, Clive Martin and Helen Moss
I MUST SAY, I was astonished to read in the editorial in the November issue of Assistant librarian the bald declaration that AL ‘is broke’. I mean, whatever will the printers…
THE first number of a new volume of THE LIBRARY WORLD offers an occasion for brief retrospect and reflection. For seventeen years the magazine has appeared regularly, untrammelled…
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THE first number of a new volume of THE LIBRARY WORLD offers an occasion for brief retrospect and reflection. For seventeen years the magazine has appeared regularly, untrammelled by official connexion and presenting a catholic view of libraries and the library profession. It began its career at a time when discussions of methods such as open‐access, classified cataloguing, and even library bulletins, created an excitement which they rarely create now; and in these and all subsequent discussions THE LIBRARY WORLD has endeavoured to keep level with, or even in advance of, the best opinion of the day. The leading men in the profession—both living and dead—have contributed to these pages; and altogether the magazine has stood consistently for progress, for advanced methods, and for the importance and dignity of the librarian's office.