{"title":"What happens after the arrival of service robots? Investigating how robotic usage experience facilitates employees’ exploitative and exploratory learning behaviors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Service robots have been widely introduced into the hospitality industry and are being extensively utilized. Most existing research has focused on the customer perspective and explored the antecedents of robotic usage experience, leaving the mechanisms of its work-related consequences unclear. This research provides a causal framework for understanding the relationship between robotic usage experience and employee learning behaviors. Through an online scenario-based experiment and a field survey, the results indicated that the robotic usage experience significantly increases employees’ exploitative and exploratory learning behaviors. Workplace inspiration plays a partial mediating role between them. Moreover, employees’ learning goal orientation positively moderates the relationship between robotic usage experience and workplace inspiration. When employees have a higher learning goal orientation, the impact of robotic usage experience on workplace inspiration becomes stronger. The findings can effectively guide employees to utilize robotic usage experience to promote their learning behaviors, thereby enhancing organizational innovation and competitiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327144","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":"Influence of robot anthropomorphism on consumer attitudes toward restaurants and service providers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We conducted this study to investigate the influence of robot anthropomorphism on consumers’ attitudes toward restaurants and service providers, focusing on the moderating effects of robot social roles and consumer autonomy. The results of Study 1 revealed that anthropomorphic robots fostered more positive attitudes toward restaurants and service robots than non-anthropomorphic robots when consumers viewed restaurant advertisements. The results of Study 2 revealed that consumers also exhibited more positive attitudes toward anthropomorphic robots compared to non-anthropomorphic robots when picturing restaurant dining experiences. Furthermore, when non-anthropomorphic robots were assigned partner roles and consumers were given the option to choose their servers, attitudes toward these robots improved. Collectively, these findings suggest that anthropomorphism in robots can lead to more positive attitudes, and the acceptance of non-anthropomorphic robots can be enhanced through greater consumer autonomy and the assignment of partner roles. These results provide insight into AI service marketing strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327145","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":"Seeing isn't always believing: Exploring the influence of misleading photos on consumer responses in hotel industry","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103934","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of misleading photos on consumer’s regret, distrust, and anger, leading to negative word-of-mouth communication. Using a scenario-based experimental design, data were collected from 259 participants via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The study further examines these interrelationships across leisure and business traveller groups as well as misleading photos posted on hotel’s official website or user-generated content (UGC). Findings reveal significant relationships between misleading photos and negative emotional responses, including regret, distrust, and anger. These emotions, in turn, affect negative word-of-mouth communication, with regret and anger being significant predictors. The multigroup analysis further identifies differences in emotional responses between leisure and business travelers, emphasizing the need for segment-specific marketing strategies. The study's implications highlight the importance of authenticity and transparency in visual marketing to enhance consumer satisfaction and loyalty while minimizing negative emotional responses. The study offers practical insights for hospitality businesses aiming to improve customer experiences and relationships.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326259","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":"Why do consumers choose online food delivery services? A meta-analytic review","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study proposes a meta-analytic framework with the underpinnings of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, value-based adoption model, and brand relationship quality theory to summarise online food delivery (OFD) literature. Meta-analytic bivariate analysis was used to test the relationships in the proposed model. Further, by performing moderation analysis, this meta-analysis resolves inconsistencies in the findings reported in the domain’s literature. Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and perceived risk determine perceived value, while perceived value has a significant positive impact on usage behaviour which in turn triggers satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. Moderation analysis indicates that these effects can vary in the OFD literature depending on various contextual and methodological moderators. This review, being the pioneer meta-analysis in OFD domain, advances the domain’s literature. Practically, the findings provide several implications for enhancing consumers’ perceived value and customer responses to OFD services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142318734","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 signal portfolios affect success in equity-based crowdfunding: Evidence from the Chinese hotel industry","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While most crowdfunding studies predominantly explore the success factors of reward-based crowdfunding, this research studies the efficacy of composite signal portfolios. Specifically, we investigate how bundles of substantive signals—comprising product- and firm-relevant information—and rhetorical signals—grounded in language-based information—affect the performance of equity-based hotel crowdfunding. By analyzing objective data from 512 equity crowdfunding projects within the Chinese hotel industry, our findings indicate that the combination of product- and firm-related substantive signals, such as price and team size, enhances both the amount and percentage of equity-based crowdfunding. Furthermore, our results unveil that the combination of product-related substantive (price) and rhetorical (emotional appeal) signals significantly contributes to equity-based crowdfunding success. These findings not only contribute to the existing literature on hotel crowdfunding but also offer strategic implications for equity-based crowdfunding managers in the hotel industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142318735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing an integrated resort’s (IR) environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) measurement scale","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite its economic benefits, the integrated resort (IR) industry faces social concerns, including pollution, gambling addiction, and community conflicts. To counter these issues, managing ESG (environmental, social, and governance) practices becomes crucial for IRs. However, IRs need more specific ESG measurement scales to ensure progress. This study aims to fill this gap by developing a new scale tailored to assess ESG activities in IRs. Using a mixed methodology, the study identified six key factors: environment, internal/external stakeholders, responsible gambling, safety and health, and governance. Rigorous statistical analysis confirmed the validity and predictive power of the developed scale. Theoretically, this study introduces the first-ever ESG scale for IRs, including the unique \"responsible gambling\" factor. It equips resort managers with a tool to build ESG strategies, gain social acceptance, and ultimately boost profitability. By embracing ESG principles and utilizing this new scale, IRs can ensure sustainable growth while minimizing negative impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314110","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":"Lookism in hospitality and tourism workplaces: A multilevel review and research agenda","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By analyzing 47 articles on lookism of employees in Hospitality-Tourism workplaces published up to March 2023 in hospitality and non-hospitality journals, this study provides a systematic review of lookism and synthesizes the findings into a multilevel conceptual framework of its antecedents and consequences. Findings indicate factors at the individual-, job-, organizational- and institutional-level are antecedents to lookism of employees and job candidates, with stigmatization, prejudice and stereotypes, gendered job context, aesthetic labor and Human Resource Management practices emphasizing aesthetic labor and physical appearance requirements, and a lack of anti-discrimination legislation respectively influencing lookism. While we find “institutionalized lookism” and “individualized lookism” operate at the individual and organizational levels, in the absence of institutionalized lookism, individualized lookism can still manifest because of the prejudices and stereotypes held by hiring managers and recruiters. Reduced applicant hireability, and other career outcomes, job attitudes, and psychological and health outcomes are employee-level consequences of lookism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314109","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":"Smart service quality in hospitality – A quantitative assessment using MCDM and clustering methods","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103931","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technology is transforming the Hospitality and Tourism (H&T) sector from a “high-touch, face-to-face” to a “high-tech, low-touch” service sector. This changing landscape necessitates a reconfiguration of the traditional service quality dimensions. To make the renowned Service Quality (SERVQUAL) model relevant in today’s dramatically different landscape, this study proposes an extended SERVQUAL framework that incorporates smart service quality as a key dimension. Using the best-worst method (BWM), the relative importance of the extended SERVQUAL dimensions is assessed from the consumers’ perspective. Furthermore, the discrepancies amongst different consumer groups are identified using latent class clustering. The findings identify rather balanced preference ratios across quality dimensions and age groups; yet, reliability is the most preferred service dimension, while smart service quality is the least. The analysis results imply several important insights into the weighted importance ranking of quality dimensions and the nuanced preferences of data-driven customer segments, being valuable both from theoretical and managerial perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278431924002433/pdfft?md5=510e630fa7e0f96faa5f449c662c8783&pid=1-s2.0-S0278431924002433-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery of smart hotels’ competitiveness based on online reviews","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid expansion of smart hotels in recent years has aroused researchers' interest in their competitiveness. While previous research has identified factors influencing the competitiveness of smart hotels, little effort has been devoted to understanding the specific competitive strengths and weaknesses of individual smart hotels. This study addresses the research gap by proposing a novel artificial intelligence framework that analyzes the competitive strengths and weaknesses of smart hotels based on online review data. The framework employs aspect-level sentiment analysis, outlying aspect mining, and theory of lodging to identify detailed competitive strengths and weaknesses of smart hotels from different perspectives. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through a case study of major smart hotels worldwide. The results extend the theory of lodging by incorporating new factors related to smart hotels and provide valuable insights that can help smart hotel practitioners develop strategies to enhance competitiveness at the firm, brand, and market levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027843192400238X/pdfft?md5=85ee31f217ddc6c877b867df07f93bbc&pid=1-s2.0-S027843192400238X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142306416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hospitable thought that counts: An emerging theory of “AI consciousness” in genuine hospitality","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research establishes the <em>Consciousness Attribution Model of AI Hospitableness</em> (CAMAH), an emerging theoretical framework that examines three interconnected aspects: (1) the mechanism of consciousness attribution by consumers towards AI-enabled service providers, (2) the necessity of such attributions in recognizing the symbolic value of AI hospitableness, and (3) a nuanced comparison between human and AI providers concerning their capacity to deliver genuine hospitability. At its core, CAMAH articulates seven foundational propositions around the argument that consuming genuine hospitality delivered by AI service providers necessitates consumers’ attribution of consciousness. Our model not only highlights a necessary condition under which AI providers are capable of offering symbolic values through their perceived hospitableness but also delineates the key boundaries of such perceptions, acknowledging the inherent distinctions between AI entities—notwithstanding their potential to emulate humanlike form/behavior—and humans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311355","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}