The tourism industry in its product/service and promotion has neglected certain groups of tourists, but so too have tourism scholars and researchers. This paper focuses on tourism transportation and obesity. A study of ...

The recent opening up of the Chinese economy has seen a rapid growth in the advertising industry, which has also lead to the exposure of advertising for socially sensitive, or controversial, products, such as condoms or ...

The role of key individuals in tourism has not been given due credit in the tourism literature. This paper uses the example of H.G. Smith and his role in the development of Manly, Australia's first tourist resort to ...

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment may trust a software ...

This paper researches - Elevated Service Offerings - (ESO), or enhanced service offerings which can only be eventuated as a result of partnering, and which could not be delivered on individual organisational merit, within ...

This study examines contingency relationships between organisational characteristics and four alternative operational reasons to budget, across two budget forms (fixed budget and rolling forecasts). Furthering the work of ...

The ageing of the Australian population is attracting increasing levels of public and political concern. Given that residential aged care is largely publicly funded, an area of particular concern is the activity of for-profit ...

There has been an increased interest ill understanding the effectiveness of the Japanese employment relations (ER) practices during the last two decades. The myths or Japan's management techniques have been the subject ...

This paper reports the findings from a study which integrated the literature on organizational change, new public management (NPM), and job satisfaction. Data was collected from administrative staff regarding the impact ...

There has been little empirical evidence regarding the involvement of public sector human resource (HR) departments in operational and strategic activities. To address this gap in the literature, this present study ...