{"title":"Exploring the impact of gross gaming revenue on unemployment and labor force participation rates in Macao","authors":"Yecheng Cao, A. George Assaf","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104396","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how gross gaming revenue (GGR) affects unemployment and labor force participation rates in Macao. We apply the error correction model (ECM) to monthly data from January 2003 to December 2023. Our results indicate that increases in GGR are associated with decreases in both unemployment and labor force participation rates in the short-term. This phenomenon suggests that people are leaving the labor force temporarily when GGR increases. Despite the seemingly positive unemployment rate decline, the lower labor force participation rate may be considered a sign of a weak job market, implying that the Government of Macao needs to diversify revenue channels rather than rely solely on the gaming sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 104396"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourist spiritual experience: A scale development and empirical study","authors":"Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur , Ying-Syuan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A growing body of research has shown that tourists can have spiritual experiences through travel, but at present, no valid and reliable instrument is available for assessing this phenomenon. To address this gap, this research was conducted and comprised two studies. In Study 1, an instrument was developed for measuring the concept of tourist spiritual experience. A scale with 25 items measuring six factors was established. The six factors were inner peace, sense of social connection, self-awareness, self-transcendence, awareness of the environment, and meaningful travel. In Study 2, researchers utilized the scale to investigate the relationship between the sources of tourist spiritual experience (tourism authenticity, interpersonal interaction, transcendental connection, and activity immersion) and the consequences (memorable experience and well-being). This study expands the theoretical knowledge on spirituality in tourism. The findings of this study serve as a reference for activity planning and itinerary design by tourism operators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101394"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vania Vigolo , Alessandro Galimberti , Nicola Cobelli , Bruno Nazim Baroni
{"title":"Toward clean cooking: Predicting consumers' intentions to purchase improved cookstoves in Sub-Saharan countries","authors":"Vania Vigolo , Alessandro Galimberti , Nicola Cobelli , Bruno Nazim Baroni","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improved cookstoves (ICSs) often represent consumers' first step toward transitioning to clean cooking technologies, especially in countries with limited access to clean cookstoves and fuels. Research on the drivers of ICS adoption in African countries is still scarce and often relies on secondary data due to difficulties in collecting primary data from consumers. Conversely, this study examines the drivers of consumers' intentions to purchase ICSs by collecting primary data from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), two of the world's poorest nations, according to World Bank statistics. Specifically, it integrates the theory of planned behavior and the technology acceptance model, using partial least squares structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis to predict purchase intentions and explore country-specific differences. Our findings show that perceived behavioral control increases purchase intention in both countries. However, significant differences emerge in the effects of attitude and subjective norms on purchase intentions. Specifically, attitude increases purchase intentions only among DRC consumers, while social norms drive purchase intentions only among Burundi consumers. This study highlights the importance of strengthening consumers' confidence in using cleaner cooking solutions to enhance their purchase intentions and thus align with the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. In addition, the different roles of attitude and subjective norms in the two countries show that the drivers of consumer behavior regarding ICSs are not uniform. This result emphasizes the need for context-specific interventions and primary research that amplifies the voices of often-overlooked consumers at the base of the pyramid.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 124288"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Small but not least changes: The art of creating disruptive innovations” [Journal of Informetrics, Volume 19 , Issue 3, (August 2025), 101703]","authors":"Youwei He, Jeong-Dong Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.joi.2025.101708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.joi.2025.101708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48662,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Informetrics","volume":"19 3","pages":"Article 101708"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144686811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kim-Lim Tan, Weng Marc Lim, Sook-Rei Tan, Lance DuBos
{"title":"Turning Hindrances Into Challenges: Transformational Leadership Enhances Employees' Competitive Productivity in an Artificial Intelligence-Driven Hospitality Industry","authors":"Kim-Lim Tan, Weng Marc Lim, Sook-Rei Tan, Lance DuBos","doi":"10.1002/jtr.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extant understanding on the role of leadership in shaping employee perceptions of embedding artificial intelligence- (AI-) enabled technologies in workplace environments as either challenges (opportunities) or hindrances (threats) is notably limited. To address this issue, a two-wave, time-lagged survey was conducted and usable data from 224 hospitality employees were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), which, in turn, highlighted the importance of transformational leadership in fulfilling the three fundamental psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in a workplace environment enabled by AI technologies. Significantly, meeting the needs for autonomy and relatedness fosters a perception of AI-enabled technologies as challenges to overcome and facilitates the positive appraisal of hindrances. Autonomy, in particular, emerged as a key determinant of this positive perspective. Noteworthily, employees who view AI-enabled technologies as challenges demonstrated a favorable correlation with their competitive productivity. These insights, in turn, contribute to the theoretical generalizability and extension of self-determination theory by integrating the challenge-hindrance appraisal framework and transformational leadership into the evolving discourse of the future of work shaped by AI-enabled technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51375,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Tourism Research","volume":"27 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jtr.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does AI-powered virtual influencer's anthropomorphism impact trust and brand love? The moderating role of opinion leadership","authors":"Anisur Rehman , Sushant Kumar , Muhammad Asif Salam , Naveen Virmani","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual influencers (VIs) are a new class of influencers that are recently becoming popular on social media. Brands are also using these VIs for several activities. Yet, limited studies have investigated how these VIs drive trust and brand love among followers. Accordingly, this study aims to understand how anthropomorphism and attitude homophily of VIs drive trust towards VI and brand love. This study utilises a conceptual model developed from the theoretical foundation of Computers are Social Actors (CASA) theory with the intermediate variables of emotional attachment and hedonic experience. Data is collected from 321 respondents from Saudi Arabia through a questionnaire approach. The findings show that anthropomorphism drives emotional attachment and hedonic experience, which subsequently determines trust in VI and brand love. The moderating effects of opinion leadership are also confirmed. Social media managers are suggested to use more human-like characteristics in VIs to make them more appealing and relevant to users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 124198"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplier response to Apple’s friendshoring","authors":"Ziliang Deng , Youhan Wang , Haojun Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Friendshoring represents a strategic response by multinational companies that are shifting their overseas supply chains to politically aligned nations in light of escalating geopolitical tensions. This transition compels suppliers to embrace the friendshoring strategies of their clients, which may result in a compromise on efficiency. Our in-depth case study of Goertek, a Chinese electroacoustic supplier for Apple Inc., illustrates its significant relocation of production lines from China to Vietnam in response to Apple’s friendshoring pressures. This research underscores the critical role of balancing supply chain efficiency and security, deepening our understanding of what drives international production decisions. Furthermore, we highlight how Goertek adeptly diversifies its customer portfolio while navigating the complex dynamics of capture and escape in the buyer–supplier relationship of global value chains, demonstrating a proactive approach to thrive in an increasingly interconnected and uncertain world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"200 ","pages":"Article 115614"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An enhanced tabu search algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling with a flexible project structure","authors":"Chunlai Yu, Xiaoming Wang, Qingxin Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.orp.2025.100349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.orp.2025.100349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we consider the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with a flexible project structure and continuous activity durations. A mathematical model based on the resource-flow formulation is developed to tackle this problem. Due to the NP-hard nature of the problem, this mathematical model can only be used to find the optimal solution to small-scale problems. To address this issue, an enhanced tabu search algorithm is proposed, which utilizes an outer loop for activity selection and an inner loop for activity sequencing. The algorithm introduces several innovative features, including the integration of filtering, elite, and perturbation strategies, as well as new neighborhood operators. The parameters of the algorithm are calibrated using orthogonal experiments, and its efficacy is evaluated through extensive computational experiments conducted on multiple benchmark datasets. The results indicate that the proposed tabu search algorithm not only performs significantly better and more stable than existing metaheuristics, but also surpasses the performance of the traditional mathematical model based on rounded durations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38055,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Perspectives","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144703948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐8","authors":"Daniel J. Fiorino","doi":"10.1111/rego.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144684580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike","authors":"Daniel Evans, Karl Jones","doi":"10.1177/09500170251336938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251336938","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the experiences of ‘Karl’, a veteran postal worker and trade union organiser. Karl’s story outlines the impact of the myriad changes that have happened to the postal service and to the working life of postal workers since the privatisation of the Royal Mail in 2013. Karl highlights how new technologies – typically associated with the ‘gig economy’ – have permeated a formerly ‘low tech’, ‘traditional’ sector and have been used to intensify the labour process and discipline the workforce. Karl outlines the profound impact these changes have had on the postal workforce: eroding their autonomy, destroying their ‘leisure in work’ and affecting their physical and mental health. Karl’s story also demonstrates the persistence of the ‘public service ethos’ in the Royal Mail despite privatisation. Workers argued that the ‘modernisation’ of the postal service had in fact led to the neglect of the universal mail service and the attendant erosion of the historic community function and status of the postal worker.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}