Overbooking as a Means to Manage Restaurant No-Shows and Cancellations: A Novel Model Extension

2021 ◽  
pp. 109634802110643
Author(s):  
C. I. Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Newsvendor Model ◽  
Model Extension ◽  
Novel Model

Newsvendor models have been developed to determine the optimal overbooking level of hotel rooms to manage no-shows and cancellations. This research note extends the newsvendor model to a restaurant context by taking into account the “stretched capacity” of restaurants to determine the optimal overbooking levels for restaurant seats. Data were collected from a restaurant in Taiwan to illustrate the model. The percentage of no-shows per day in this restaurant ranged from 11% to 16%. Utilizing its stretched capacity, the restaurant can overbook up to five more seats than the estimated number of no-shows. The extended model will be most suitable for restaurants that largely depend on reservations (rather than walk-ins), such as luxury or fine-dining restaurants. Directions for future research on restaurant overbooking are provided.

Is Cannabis Tourism Deviant? A Theoretical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianyu Ying ◽  
Jun Wen ◽  
Hairong Shan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Future Research Directions

With the growth of cannabis tourism, destinations such as the Netherlands have begun to offer cannabis-related products and services to visitors, including tourists from countries where all drugs are strictly prohibited. Yet limited research has sought to understand cannabis-oriented tourists' efforts to neutralize deviant connotations, namely by justifying or rationalizing misbehavior, when deciding to participate in cannabis tourism. This research note proposes a framework of deviant consumption behavior (DCB) constructed of geographic shifting, self-identity shifting, and moral identity shifting from the perspective of cannabis-oriented tourists to delineate tourists' decision-making process around engaging in deviant behaviors. The proposed framework suggests that previously developed DCB frameworks in the marketing and consumer behavior literature should be adapted for use in outbound tourism research. This research note also highlights areas for debate and investigation regarding cannabis tourists' deviant behavior. Future research directions are provided based on the proposed framework as it applies to deviant tourism research.

Keeping Black Girls in School: A Systematic Review of Opportunities to Address Exclusionary Discipline Disparity

2021 ◽  
pp. 215336872098889
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Addington
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Exclusionary Discipline ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
Single Location ◽  
Trauma Informed

A punitive legacy of the responses to school shootings in the United States is the expansion of exclusionary discipline. Black girls have disproportionately experienced this form of punishment as compared to white girls and non-Black girls of color. A small, but growing, body of research has examined the patterns and causes of this disparity. Current studies have made suggestions for possible solutions to address this disparity, but these recommendations are not readily accessible in a single location. A catalogue of these ideas could provide a useful foundation for policy development and evaluation. The present research note seeks to generate this resource by conducting a systematic review to identify and categorize recommendations aimed at reducing the discipline disparity experienced by Black girls. Based on this review, four categories emerged that center around: (1) culturally competent school programs, (2) enhanced teacher training, (3) spaces at school for empowering Black girls, and (4) trauma-informed student policies. This research note discusses these categories of recommendations using an intersectional framework and concludes with a summary of next steps to guide future research and policy work to address the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline against Black girls.

Why Is Human Milk Donation Absent From the Literature on Philanthropic Giving? The Invisible Female Donor and Her Invisible Gift

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110139
Author(s):  
Ayelet Oreg ◽  
Susan Appe
Keyword(s):  
Human Milk ◽  
Infant Feeding ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Female Donor ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Milk Banks ◽  
The Invisible

In this research note, we call attention to human milk donation being essentially omitted from the philanthropy literature and bodily gifting research. We focus here on human milk donations for infant feeding through nonprofit milk banks. We argue that its omission is due to two main factors: (a) the incoherence of defining human milk donation and the challenges to its regulation and (b) its consideration as care work and the characteristics of the milk donor identity. We end with avenues for future research in this area.

News as Entertainment Format

2021 ◽  
pp. 515-536
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Robinson ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Disposition Theory ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Affective Disposition Theory ◽  
News Event

The informative value of news has often been the focus of mass communication research, but individuals do tune into the news for entertainment purposes. In addition, news organizations frequently add entertainment elements into news stories to increase audience interest. Considering both of these factors, theorizing about the entertainment processes (e.g., appreciation, enjoyment, and suspense) that occur during news consumption is necessary to understand audience behavior. This chapter investigates factors that influence entertainment processes during news consumption. Two entertainment theories in particular (affective disposition theory and the affective news extended model) are reviewed to understand how affective responses influence enjoyment of news. It organizes existing research on affective responses and entertainment processes into two categories focusing on news event characteristics (i.e., elements that journalists cannot change) and message design principles that journalists create or edit. Areas for future research are provided.

Nonprofit Role Classification Using Mission Descriptions and Supervised Machine Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110573
Author(s):  
Megan LePere-Schloop
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Qualitative Approaches

Scholars have used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to empirically study nonprofit roles. Mission statements and program descriptions often reflect such roles, however, until recently collecting and classifying a large sample has been labor-intensive. This research note uses data on United Ways that e-filed their 990 forms and supervised machine learning to illustrate an approach for classifying a large set of mission descriptions by roles. Temporal and geographic variation in roles detected in mission statements suggests that such an approach may be fruitful in future research.

Premarket Forecasting for New Consumer Durable Goods: Modeling Categorization, Elimination, and Consideration Phenomena

1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen L. Urban ◽  
John S. Hulland ◽  
Bruce D. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Durable Goods ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Marketing Planning ◽  
Product Models ◽  
Consumer Durable ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Measurement Methodology ◽  
New Consumer

The authors extend previous models for premarket forecasting of new durable consumer goods by including parameters that reflect consumers’ categorization and consideration processes. They propose a model and measurement methodology, which they apply to the premarket forecasting of a new automobile. They describe empirical data collection, parameter estimation, managerial implications, validation issues, and future research needs. The extended model generates new managerial insights into positioning and marketing planning effectiveness, can be used to simulate the effects of changes in positioning strategy on consideration and choice, and provides more detailed information about why consumers consider or reject a new brand. The relevance of the categorization extension for other new product models that condition choice on a consideration set is also explored.

Increasing productivity in the Big 4: a research note

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302
Author(s):  
Chereen Pasha
Keyword(s):  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Big 4 ◽  
Development Data

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the idea of increasing employee productivity and retention within the Big 4 accounting firms through the inclusion of sleeping pods to allow napping. Design/methodology/approach – I have reviewed multiple sources of information and data including Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data to conclude that allowing napping within Big 4 accounting firms could increase productivity. Findings – As a research note suggesting future research, I am hoping that future research shall find support for the idea that there may be a relationship between being well rested and increase in performance. Practical implications – Higher quality of workers will increase their productivity and the company’s profits. Conservative leaders in large audit firms may reject the idea of incorporating “energy pods”. New ideas always come with push back and criticism. Originality/value – Big 4 firms have developed a working system that could be improved to remove the negative stigma of overworking their employees. The value this research strives to reveal is a structure that reduces turnover and increases retention after two years. “Energizing pods” have been introduced into technology and airline companies. Taking naps in a fast-paced, stressful work environment is not common, but it is a concept that should further explored for the sake of business professionals.

Research Note

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
Wesley G. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Large Cohort ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Financial Costs ◽  
Case Characteristics

Although the use of financial penalties is pervasive in the justice system, there has been limited (and mostly dated) empirical research that has investigated the effect of financial costs incurred by juvenile offenders and the extent to which such costs relate to the likelihood of recidivism and reintegration into society. This study uses data from a large cohort of adolescent offenders to examine how demographics and case characteristics relate to financial penalties imposed by the justice system and the degree to which such monetary penalties are related to recidivism in a 2-year follow-up. Results suggest that financial penalties increase the likelihood of recidivism. Study limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

scholarly journals Morphology of Human Glioblastoma Model Cultured in Ovo

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Szmidt ◽  
Kaja Urbańska ◽  
Marta Grodzik ◽  
Piotr Orłowski ◽  
Ewa Sawosz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Glioblastoma Multiforme ◽  
Growth Inhibition ◽  
Tumour Growth ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Chorioallantoic Membrane ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Future Research ◽  
In Ovo ◽  
Tumour Growth Inhibition ◽  
Novel Model

Abstract The aim of this study was the morphological characterisation of glioblastoma multiforme tumour grown in ovo. Tumour cells (U-87 MG) were implanted on the chorioallantoic membrane of chicken egg. The structural features of cultured tumours resembled the spontaneous glioblastoma multiforme; however, the differences were also indicated. Our results confirm applicability of in ovo culture in tumour genesis studies. The described novel model may be profoundly helpful for the future research on molecular mechanisms of tumour growth inhibition.

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