scholarly journals Can Hotel Companies’ Water Conservation Management and Waste Reduction Measures Influence Hotel Customers’ Willingness to Pay More and Intention to Revisit?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9054
Author(s):  
Junghyun Park ◽  
Yunmi Park ◽  
Jae Leame Yoo ◽  
Jongsik Yu
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Intention To Revisit ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Effect

This study investigated the effect of hotel water conservation management and waste reduction measures on customers’ social and personal norms, willingness to pay more, and revisit intention, with cost consciousness as a moderating variable. A total of 311 valid samples were obtained by conducting a survey on customers who have used hotels for the past year. To perform the empirical analysis, SPSS 22.0 (IBM, New York, NY, USA) and AMOS 22.0 (IBM, New York, NY, USA) were used. As a result of the analysis, seven of the eight hypotheses were accepted, and the ninth hypothesis that tested the moderating effect was partially accepted. The results of the study revealed that a hotel’s eco-friendly activities had a positive effect on its overall performance. The results also provide insight that can lay the foundation for the sustainable management of hotels.

The impact of counterfeit risk management on healthcare supply chain performance: an empirical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Falasca ◽  
Scott Dellana ◽  
William J. Rowe ◽  
John F. Kros
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

PurposeThis study develops and tests a model exploring the relationship between supply chain (SC) counterfeit risk management and performance in the healthcare supply chain (HCSC).Design/methodology/approachIn the proposed theoretical model, HCSC counterfeit risk management is characterized by HCSC counterfeit risk orientation (HCRO), HCSC counterfeit risk mitigation (HCRM) and HCSC risk management integration (HRMI), while performance is represented by healthcare logistics performance (HLP) and healthcare organization overall performance (HOP). Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and survey data from 55 HCSC managers are used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsHCRO has a significant positive effect on HCRM, while HCRM has a positive impact on HRMI. With respect to HLP, HCRM has a nonsignificant effect, while HRMI has a significant impact, thus confirming the important mediating role of HRMI. Finally, HLP has a significant positive effect on the overall performance of healthcare organizations.Research limitations/implicationsAll study participants were from the United States, limiting the generalizability of the study findings to different countries or regions. The sample size employed in the study did not allow the authors to distinguish among the different types of healthcare organizations.Originality/valueThis study delineates between a healthcare organization's philosophy toward counterfeiting risks vs actions taken to eliminate or reduce the impact of counterfeiting on the HCSC. By offering firm-level guidance for managers, this study informs healthcare organizations about addressing the challenge of counterfeiting in the HCSC.

scholarly journals Aid for Trade Flows and Recipient-Countries’ Integration into the World Market for Services Exports: Do Merchandises Exports and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows Matter?

2020 ◽  
pp. 2350001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sena Kimm Gnangnon ◽  
Susana Del Mar Ramirez Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
World Market ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
Performance Effect ◽  
The World ◽  
Aid For Trade ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Effect

An important literature on the recipient-countries’ export performance effect of Aid for Trade (AfT) flows has focused on the goods side. The few existing studies on the services exports effects of AfT interventions have reached mixed results, reflecting a positive or weak effect. This study aims to complement these few studies by examining the effect of AfT flows on recipient-countries’ share of services exports in the world services exports (‘services export integration’), including through two main channels: their share of merchandises exports in the world merchandises exports (‘merchandises export integration’) and the size of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. The empirical analysis, based on a sample of 105 countries over the period 2002–2016, has shown that these two channels definitely matter for the effect of AfT flows on countries’ services export integration. Specifically, by fostering countries’ merchandises export integration, AfT flows can promote their services export integration. Furthermore, promoting FDI inflows enhances the positive effect of AfT flows on countries’ services export integration.

Implementation of the waste discharge charge system

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
G. C. Pegram ◽  
D. Weston ◽  
S. T. Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Resource Quality ◽  
Charge System ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Waste Discharge ◽  
Water Quality Problem

The waste discharge charge system (WDCS) is being developed by the Department of Water Affairs to promote waste reduction and water conservation. It forms part of the Pricing Strategy, which is being established under the National Water Act (Act 36 of 1998). The WDCS is based on the polluter-pays principle and aims to:promote the sustainable development and efficient use of water resourcespromote the internalisation of environmental costs by impactorscreate financial incentives for dischargers to reduce waste and use water resources in a more optimal way. The WDCS is premised on resource quality objectives (RQOs) as the measure of acceptable risk, and seeks to achieve RQOs at lowest total cost to the catchment. Where RQOs are exceeded or are threatened, impact on the resource is unacceptable and the WDCS may be deployed to achieve RQOs. The system will be applied at a catchment scale where the catchment is defined as those areas that have a significant impact on water quality, or are impacted by the specific water quality problem such as salinity, nutrients, heavy metals and organics. This paper aims to provide a summary of the WDCS Strategy.

scholarly journals The Effects of Second-Generation Rent Control on Land Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 385-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Mense ◽  
Claus Michelsen ◽  
Konstantin A. Kholodilin
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Opposite Sign ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Rent Control ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Positive Effect

Second generation rent control seeks to prevent negative quantity effects by exempting newly built units. The artificially lowered rent in the controlled segment makes renting attractive for households that would otherwise not have rented in the market, replacing households with higher willingness to pay for housing. These households bid up prices in the free market segment, giving rise to an opposite-sign spillover from the controlled to the free market (Mense, Michelsen, and Kholodilin 2017). This paper documents a positive effect of “second generation” rent control on the value of vacant, buildable land.

scholarly journals Using the Norm Activation Model to Predict the Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Public Servants at the Central and Local Governments in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Ta Fang ◽  
Yi-Te Chiang ◽  
Eric Ng ◽  
Jen-Chieh Lo
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Positive Effect

An understanding of the environmental value-action gap between public servants at the central and local governments is essential for the effective implementation of environmental policies, which is limited in the extant literature. This study has adopted the norm activation model to explore the pro-environmental behaviors of public servants at the central and local governments in Taiwan. A total of 7567 valid questionnaires were collected, and significant differences were evident between public servants at the central (n = 3400) and local (n = 4167) governments in personal norms, awareness of consequences, ascription of responsibility, and pro-environmental behaviors. Findings revealed that personal norms were the key factors predicting pro-environmental behaviors of public servants at both the central and local governments. Results also indicated that the awareness of consequences by public servants at the central government had a direct effect on their pro-environmental behaviors, which in turn had a significant effect on their ascription of responsibility. In contrast, awareness of consequences by public servants at the local government had no significant direct effect on their pro-environmental behaviors and had only a weak positive effect on their ascription of responsibility.

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