Andrew J. Knight, Michelle R. Worosz and E.C.D. Todd
The goals of this study were to study consumer perceptions of food safety at restaurants and to compare these results to those of other food system actors.
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Purpose
The goals of this study were to study consumer perceptions of food safety at restaurants and to compare these results to those of other food system actors.
Design/methodology/approach
The data for this study were gathered from telephone interviews conducted with 1,014 randomly selected US adults.
Findings
The main findings were that a substantial number of consumers think about food safety in general and particularly when eating at restaurant establishments; and while a majority of consumers stated that restaurants were doing a good job, were capable, and were committed to food safety, in comparison to other actors, restaurants ranked significantly lower than farmers, food processors and manufacturers, and grocery stores and supermarkets.
Research limitations/implications
A limitation of this study was that distinctions were not made between fast food and sitβdown restaurants or other types of restaurants, e.g. chains, independent, and ethnic. These results highlight the need for more comprehensive studies on how food safety issues affect consumer perceptions of restaurants and how these perceptions affect consumer behavior.
Practical implications
The findings reinforce the importance of food safety behaviors at restaurants, particularly in the areas of personal hygiene and workplace sanitation, food handling, and food preparation.
Originality/value
This paper helps restaurant managers to better understand consumer perceptions of food safety and highlights the importance of instituting and monitoring food safety practices.
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Daniel R. Clark and Jeffrey G. Covin
The literature on international entrepreneurship offers two competing views on why new ventures internationalize: (a) the nature of the opportunity pulls them international or (bβ¦
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The literature on international entrepreneurship offers two competing views on why new ventures internationalize: (a) the nature of the opportunity pulls them international or (b) the founder pushes the firm international. While these two internationalization drivers are not independent, they do represent unique causal mechanisms. Previously, the tools available to understand the entrepreneurβs disposition toward internationalization were limited. The present study uses the theoretical foundation of the international entrepreneurial orientation construct and from it develops and tests an attitudinally-based individual-level measure of disposition toward internationalization. To ensure the validity and reliability of the new measure, termed International Entrepreneurial Orientation Disposition, studies were conducted to: develop new scale items, examine their psychometric properties and construct validity, and demonstrate criterion validity. A strong measurement model is developed using structural equation modeling (CFI = 0.93, RMSEA = 0.07), and the measure is shown to be useful as a predictor of perceived international venture attractiveness.
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Temidayo Oluwasola Osunsanmi, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala and Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke
The idea of implementing supply chain management (SCM) principles for the construction industry was embraced by construction stakeholders to enhance the sector's performance. Theβ¦
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The idea of implementing supply chain management (SCM) principles for the construction industry was embraced by construction stakeholders to enhance the sector's performance. The analysis from the literature revealed that the implementation of SCM in the construction industry enhances the industry's value in terms of cost-saving, time savings, material management, risk management and others. The construction supply chain (CSC) can be managed using the pull or push system. This chapter also discusses the origin and proliferation of SCM into the construction industry. The chapter revealed that the concept of SCM has passed through five different eras: the creation era, the use of ERP, globalisation stage, specialisation stage and electronic stage. The findings from the literature revealed that we are presently in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) era. At this stage, the SCM witnesses the adoption of technologies and principles driven by the 4IR. This chapter also revealed that the practice of SCM in the construction industry is centred around integration, collaboration, communication and the structure of the supply chain (SC). The forms and challenges hindering the adoption of these practices were also discussed extensively in this chapter.
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Pawan Budhwar, Andy Crane, Annette Davies, Rick Delbridge, Tim Edwards, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Lloyd Harris, Emmanuel Ogbonna and Robyn Thomas
Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce οΏ½β¦
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Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce β not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales.
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I have been asked to explore how James Buchananβs work on public finance and constitutional political economy might have emerged out of themes present in Frank Knightβs oeuvreβ¦
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I have been asked to explore how James Buchananβs work on public finance and constitutional political economy might have emerged out of themes present in Frank Knightβs oeuvre, especially his Risk Uncertainty, and Profit. Buchananβs body of work has inspired the development of a style of political economy sometimes described as Virginia or Constitutional Political Economy to distinguish it from the Chicago Political Economy with which George Stigler is associated, and with Stigler and Buchanan both being students of Knight. While Buchanan, unlike Stigler, did not write his dissertation under Knightβs supervision, this is a minor distinction because Buchanan regarded Knight as his de facto supervisor even though Roy Blough was his de jure supervisor. The author explains how Knightβs scholarly oeuvre can in large measure be detected in Buchananβs effort to fashion an alternative approach to public finance and to articulate the field of study now called constitutional political economy.
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18;β¦
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18; Property Management Volumes 8β18; Structural Survey Volumes 8β18.
Index by subjects, compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18; Property Managementβ¦
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Index by subjects, compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18; Property Management Volumes 8β18; Structural Survey Volumes 8β18.
Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18;β¦
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18; Property Management Volumes 8β18; Structural Survey Volumes 8β18.
Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18;β¦
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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8β18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8β18; Property Management Volumes 8β18; Structural Survey Volumes 8β18.
G. T. Lumpkin and Robert J. Pidduck
Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has emerged as a core concept in the field of entrepreneurship. Yet, there continue to be questions about the nature of EO and how best toβ¦
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Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has emerged as a core concept in the field of entrepreneurship. Yet, there continue to be questions about the nature of EO and how best to conceptualize and measure it. This chapter makes the case that EO has grown beyond its roots as a firm-level unidimensional strategy construct and that a new multidimensional version of EO is needed to capture the diverse manifestations and venues for entrepreneurial activity that are now evident around the world β global entrepreneurial orientation (GEO). Building on the five-dimension multidimensional view of EO set forth when Lumpkin and Dess (1996) extended the work of Miller (1983) and Covin and Slevin (1989, 1991), the chapter offers an updated definition of EO and a fresh interpretation of why EO matters theoretically. Despite earnest efforts to reconcile the different approaches to EO, in order to move the study of EO and the theoretical conversation about it forward, we maintain that as a group of scholars and a field, we need to acknowledge that two different versions of EO have emerged. Given that, we consider original approaches to measuring EO, evaluate formative measurement models, consider multiple levels of analysis, call for renewed attention to EO configurations, and discuss whether there is a theory of EO.