{"title":"The effect of typicality in luxury hotel brand storytelling on booking intention","authors":"Fangting Chen , Ruiying Cai , Xing’an Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Storytelling has been essential for hospitality organizations’ promotion. However, the impacts of luxury hotel brand stories’ typicality on narrative transportation remain underexplored, as do associated outcomes. This research considers the effectiveness of these stories’ typicality through one pilot study and four experiments. Based on narrative transportation theory, the findings reveal that luxury hotel brand stories’ typicality has distinct effects on customers’ perceived inspiration, novelty, and booking intentions. The boundary conditions shaping the effectiveness of typical and atypical brand stories are also examined, including brand-related attributes (i.e., brand history), and individual consumer differences (i.e., subjective social class and consumption motivation). This research, which adopts a context-specific approach to luxury hotel brands and introduces typicality as an aspect worthy of attention, expands the literature on brand storytelling and narrative transportation. Managerial suggestions are provided for crafting luxury hotel brand stories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104337"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144322356","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":"Exploring the role of psychological ownership in value co-creation in private clubs: Insights from social cognitive theory","authors":"SoJung Lee , Hang Cui , Seung Jeon","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104348","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104348","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Private clubs are exclusive communities where members develop a sense of psychological ownership, which in turn shapes interpersonal dynamics and value co-creation among stakeholders. However, limited research has captured the dynamic nature of clubs or integrated the distinctive traits of members because of the industry's exclusivity and privacy. Building on Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), this study examines how the psychological ownership of club members influences their value co-creation attitudes and behaviors in private clubs using a dimensional approach. Structural equation modeling, based on 289 responses from two U.S. country clubs, reveals that psychological ownership, as a multidimensional construct, significantly shapes value co-creation attitudes and behaviors. Each psychological dimension fosters collaborative attitudes differently, reinforcing its central role in value co-creation. Moreover, each value co-creation attitude uniquely influences participation behaviors, highlighting the nuanced relationship between attitudes and actions. The findings enhance our understanding of member behaviors in private clubs while adapting the framework to the industry's dynamic nature. By extending SCT to private clubs, this study captures their unique characteristics, encompassing environmental and psychological factors as well as stakeholder interactions that shape collaborative attitudes and actions, which strengthens the theoretical foundations of club research. The study offers valuable practical implications for private club management, emphasizing the role of psychological ownership in fostering member collaboration. Strategies such as community-building initiatives, inclusive leadership selection, tailored participation opportunities, and responsive governance can enhance members’ collaborative behaviors and ensure the long-term success of private clubs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104348"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313452","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}
Jingpeng Li , Yudan Wang , Yanqing Lin , Yushi Jiang , Qiang Yang
{"title":"The power of sound: The impact of auditory features in hotel short influencer-generated videos on viewer engagement","authors":"Jingpeng Li , Yudan Wang , Yanqing Lin , Yushi Jiang , Qiang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104341","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104341","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how auditory features—speech rate, pitch, loudness, emotional arousal, and emotional valence—affect viewer engagement with short influencer-generated videos (SIGVs) in the hotel industry. The analysis is based on a dataset of 6152 videos posted by 485 hotels on the Douyin platform. Using deep learning models and statistical techniques, the auditory characteristics of the videos were quantified and analyzed. The results reveal inverted U-shaped relationships between speech rate, pitch, loudness, emotional arousal, and viewer engagement, suggesting that moderate levels of these features lead to higher engagement. In contrast, emotional valence demonstrates a positive linear effect on viewer engagement, indicating that more positive emotional expressions enhance viewer engagement. This research fills a gap in hotel short video marketing literature by focusing on auditory features and introducing audio-mining techniques to the hospitality industry, providing valuable insights for optimizing audio content to improve viewer engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104341"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308037","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}
Lorena Ruiz-Fernández, Laura Rienda, Rosario Andreu
{"title":"Navigating complexity: Unveiling the nonlinear relationship between family engagement and dynamic capabilities in the hotel industry","authors":"Lorena Ruiz-Fernández, Laura Rienda, Rosario Andreu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104350","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104350","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Family-owned enterprises face a growingly turbulent context, prompting them to develop adaptive capabilities and sustain their competitive advantages amidst shifting dynamics. Specifically, the tourism sector, which comprises many family businesses, has been greatly affected by the ever-changing environment. In that sense, the analysis of the idiosyncratic characteristics of family firms in dynamic capabilities development that influence the innovation of hotels is of particular relevance. This study aims to assess how family engagement affects the development of dynamic capabilities of hotels and their subsequent relationship with innovative performance within hotel chains. The results indicate that family engagement influences dynamic capabilities through a nonlinear relationship. Also, a favorable association is evidenced between these dynamic capabilities, characterized by hotels' adeptness in discerning and capitalizing on environmental opportunities through resource reconfiguration, and the resultant innovations within the hotel sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104350"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296843","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":"Fitting in or standing out: How neurodivergence, gender, and diversity policies shape hiring decisions","authors":"Kavitha Haldorai , Woo Gon Kim , Jun (Justin) Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how neurodivergence, gender, and diversity policies influence workplace evaluations, focusing on interpersonal hostility and perceived job suitability in the US hospitality industry. Study 1 utilized a sample of 626 participants in a 3 (neurodivergence: neurotypical, neurodivergent disclosed, neurodivergent nondisclosed) × 2 (diversity policy: generic, disability-specific) experimental design and found that neurodivergent candidates experienced higher interpersonal hostility and lower job suitability ratings compared to neurotypical candidates. Disclosure of neurodivergence and disability-specific diversity policies significantly reduced hostility and improved job suitability ratings. Study 2, with 594 participants, extended these findings by introducing gender (male, female, non-binary) in a 3 × 3 × 2 design. Results indicated significant three-way interactions, with female and non-binary neurodivergent candidates under disability-specific policies experiencing the greatest reductions in hostility and the highest job suitability ratings. The findings advance theoretical frameworks on social roles and status hierarchies while providing actionable insights for inclusive organizational practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104339"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296844","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}
Muhammad Waheed Akhtar , Osman M. Karatepe , Qingyu Zhang , Elisa Rescalvo-Martin , Muhammad Kashif Aslam
{"title":"When innovation meets leadership: Exploring the role of responsible leadership in enhancing the impact of technological innovation on service performance","authors":"Muhammad Waheed Akhtar , Osman M. Karatepe , Qingyu Zhang , Elisa Rescalvo-Martin , Muhammad Kashif Aslam","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104336","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104336","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Little is known about the mediators, moderators, and consequences of technological innovation in the hospitality literature that would help the hotel to amplify its competitiveness. Therefore, using the resource-based view as the theoretical focus, our paper develops and tests a moderated mediation model that examines individual ambidexterity as a mediator between technological innovation (TIN) and service performance, responsible leadership (RL) as a moderator of the impact of TIN on individual ambidexterity, and RL as a moderator of the indirect impact of TIN on service performance via individual ambidexterity. Data gathered from hotel employees in China were used to assess said associations via the partial least squares structural equation modeling. As hypothesized, individual ambidexterity functions as the underlying mechanism relating TIN to service performance. RL moderates the positive impact of TIN on individual ambidexterity. More importantly, RL strengthens the indirect positive influence of TIN on service performance via individual ambidexterity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104336"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308036","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":"Breaking the plastic habit: Unveiling strategies for reducing single-use plastic utensil usage on online food delivery platforms","authors":"Ju Yeon Shin , Eojina Kim , Manisha Singal","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104334","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104334","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As consumers’ use of online food delivery (OFD) platforms increases, concerns have arisen about customers’ usage of single-use plastic utensils. Major OFD platforms in the U.S. provide pre-selected boxes (default options) on their applications, but visual cues, loss aversion effects, and negativity bias are not applied. Therefore, this study investigates whether consumers try to reduce their usage of single-use plastic utensils when ordering food using OFD platforms. Study 1 identified the use of ‘single-use plastic utensils are not required (default options),’ and image signals (visual cues) have the greatest effects. Furthermore, Study 2 showed the loss aversion effect and negativity bias had the greatest effects on reducing consumers’ single-use plastic utensil usage. This study contributes to the growing literature in the foodservice industry on how consumers can most effectively reduce their usage of single-use plastic utensils. Our findings provide new directions for practitioners to reduce single-use plastic utensil usage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104334"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144290703","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":"Do experience learning and self-efficacy matter to hospitality professional skills? Lessons learned from Thai hotel managers","authors":"Bussalin Khuadthong , Sirinan Pantaruk , Narinthon Imjai , Sunsanee Wongsawat , Somnuk Aujirapongpan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aimed to examine the impacts of Hospitality Experience Learning (HEL) and Self-Efficacy (SEC) on Hospitality Mindset (HMS) and Hospitality Professional Skills (HPS). A quantitative approach was employed, collecting data from 398 department managers in five-star hotels across Thailand. A structured questionnaire, developed based on previous research and validated for reliability and validity, was used as the primary research instrument. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed that HEL had a significant direct effect on SEC and HMS but no direct effect on HPS. However, HEL indirectly influenced HPS through both SEC and HMS, highlighting their mediating roles. Among the variables, SEC emerged as a key driver, exerting strong positive impacts on both HMS and HPS. Additionally, HMS served as a crucial mediator, linking HEL and SEC to HPS, indicating that managers with high self-efficacy and a strong hospitality mindset are more likely to enhance their professional service skills effectively. These findings provide valuable insights for designing effective training strategies, human resource development programs, and resource allocation initiatives within the hospitality sector to foster sustainable workforce growth. This study is limited by its sample scope, focusing exclusively on department managers in five-star hotels in Thailand, which may restrict the generalizability of the results to other hospitality segments or regions. Future research should expand the sample to include other service sectors or broader organizational contexts to further validate these findings and extend their applicability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104349"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144281180","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":"How and when illegitimate tasks affect hospitality employees’ service sabotage? The roles of psychological contract breach and collectivism","authors":"Zhuanzhuan Sun, Yanping Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Illegitimate tasks are becoming increasingly prevalent in the hospitality industry, yet their adverse effects have been largely understated. Grounded in social exchange theory, the present research explores how and when illegitimate tasks impact hospitality employee’ service sabotage. A three-wave, dual-source survey involving 215 supervisor-employee dyads from 9 hotels indicated that illegitimate tasks induced hospitality employees’ psychological contract breach, which in turn accounted for a significant increase in service sabotage. Meanwhile, employee collectivism lessened the damaging impact of illegitimate tasks on psychological contract breach and subsequent service sabotage. In light of these findings, this study provided theoretical contributions, practical implications, and suggestions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104347"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144281181","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":"Measuring and predicting national differences in tipping customs: A critical review","authors":"Michael Lynn","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A review of research on the predictors of national tipping customs found that they varied with national characteristics likely to affect motivations for and against tipping and/or exposure to other pro-tipping cultures. However, numerous methodological problems undermine confidence in the theoretical processes underlying these effects. In addition, inconsistencies in findings raise questions about which effects are real and how generalizable they are. Measures of national customary tip sizes based on travel guides show weak convergent validity, so some of the inconsistencies may be attributable to weak measurement. Other potential sources of inconsistency are low statistical power and the effects of untested moderator variables. Better measures of national customary tip amounts based on worldwide surveys of national populations are needed as are larger sample sizes and more tests of moderation effects. Such measures and research would benefit researchers, hospitality/tourism businesses, and international tourists alike.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104343"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144271841","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}