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Öğe Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?(WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ, 2021) Çöp, Serdar; Olorunsola, Victor Oluwafemi; Alola, Uju VioletThe race to gain competitive advantage through the formulation of a sustainable business strategy is key for the survival in the global business sphere. Even more importantly is the quest to deploy an effective green strategy to combat the numerous negative impact industrialization has on the environment. Researches pointed out the role of leaders and stakeholder's engagement in bringing about reform. This research focuses on how to build a robust psychological capital within an organization through the leader's transformative ability in combating environmental issues. This is necessary because research related to green transformational leadership and the effect on green team resilience has not been considered in literature. Drawing from the combination of three theories; broaden-and-build theory, job demand– resource theory, and conservation of resource theory, this study contributes to the extant literature by testing the effect of green transformational leadership via the mediating role of green work engagement to green team resilience. Using Amos 20 version to analyze 351 questionnaires that were collected from employees in four and five star hotels in Turkey, the result reviews that green transformational leadership has a positive effect on green work engagement and green team resilience, and green work engagement fully mediates the relationship between the variables. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.Öğe Antecedents of customer loyalty in mobile telecommunication companies in Cameroon(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Tarkang, Mary Magdaline Enow Mbi; Yunji, Ruth N.; Asongu, Simplice; Alola, Uju VioletThe mobile telecommunication (telecom) sector has become the basic source of information nowadays, especially in Cameroon. It is used to transfer and deliver information through voice, video, data, graphics, and more at perpetually increasing speeds. The quality of mobile services does not only impact the attraction of new customers but also to maintain the existing ones. The study uses relationship marketing theory and a quantitative and cross-sectional method with 200 respondents. Information was obtained from users of MTN and Orange mobile telecommunication networks. The analyses were done using SPSS version 20. Tangibility, reliability, and assurance dimensions of staff service quality showed a positive relationship with customer loyalty in mobile telecom companies in Cameroon. The findings also highlight the influence of service quality dimensions on customer loyalty in the mobile telecom companies of the country.Öğe Can Cost and Quality Management-Oriented Innovation Enhance Patient Satisfaction in Medical Tourist Destination?(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Ghasemi, Matina; Sahranavard, Seyed Arash; Alola, Uju Violet; Hassanpoor, EdrisDespite the active contribution, promotion, and emergent in medical tourism, few studies have examined the significant contribution of cost and quality management-oriented innovation on medical tourists. Hospital administrators' application of knowledge management practices buffers a yardstick for both innovation and patient-oriented. A total of 214 questionnaires were collected from general and functional managers in Iranian hospitals. partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was performed to analyze the data using Smart PLS 3. The findings suggest that both cost- and quality-oriented innovation significantly increase patient satisfaction. Additionally, low-cost and high-quality services stand as mediating variables for patient satisfaction. By emphasizing on innovation and knowledge management, the current study's results indicate the significance of low-cost and high-quality services for satisfied patients. The study concludes with implications for research and directions for future study. For the first time, the current study proposed a model to examine how low-cost and high-quality services mediates the impact of cost and quality management-oriented innovation on patient satisfaction.Öğe Can Paradoxical Leadership Be the Game Changer in Driving Organisations against Negative Practices?(Sciendo, 2023) Alola, Uju Violet; Alafeshat, Rawan; Tarkang, Marymagdaline Enowmbi; Lafmajani, Soolmaz AzarmiEmployees have suffered as a result of bad organisational practices, and they now perceive the workplace as unfriendly. In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the search for a remedy for this. This study looks at the impact of paradoxical leadership, which is beneficial when it takes a two-way approach to leadership. This study investigated the link that exists between paradoxical leadership styles and workers using the Theory of Social Exchange. In California, USA, 200 surveys were collected from restaurant staff. We examined the data using structural equation modeling to hypothesise linkages. It was shown that paradoxical leadership had a negative association with job insecurity, amotivation, and organisational tolerance for workplace incivility, while having a favorable relationship with employee psychological safety. Job insecurity, on the other hand, partially and fully mediates the link. The findings have implications for managers and the organisation overall. This is the first study that tries to investigate this relationship in the restaurant industry using paradoxical leadership and incivility.Öğe Can Website quality Moderate the Relationship between Information-task-fit and Electronic word of mouth?(WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ, 2022) Tarkang Mary, Magdaline Enow Mbi; Öztüren, Ali; Alola, Uju VioletInformation technology expertise has comprehensively revamped and made well recognized, the hospitality and tourism industry. Electronic businesses, which are different type of commercial business was constructed and established with the help of the internet, and this now affects the way clients react. The current research seeks to explore the effect of information-task-fit, on electronic word of mouth (eWOM) of users of Turkish airlines. Furthermore, the present study examines the moderating role of website quality on the aforementioned relationship. Six hundred and four usable questionnaires were obtained online within a 6 month period with the use of Google forms The current study used a quantitative and cross-sectional type of research method. The anticipated interactions were estimated using structural equation modeling. All anticipated relationships were supported, with discernment that the availability of users required information on the website impacted them to engage in eWOM. As hypothesized, the quality of the website, moderated the relationship between information-task-fit (INTF) and eWOM. The consequences of the present research proposes comprehensions into maintaining and why not improving the website quality by making the website user friendly, so as to attract potential users and keep current users. This study's complete model is scare in the airline service literature. In consequence there should be an added research on the influence of information task fit website information and design on supposed service quality and internet word of mouth. Managers should also uphold an elevation website ethics by employing good professional website builders to attract their usage. This study offers inferences for airline website quality.Öğe Caught Unprepared: Consequences of Getting Full Online During a Pandemic(Editura Lumen, 2022) Arslan, Aykut; Yener, Serdar; Korkmaz, Fatma; Alola, Uju VioletAlthough the concept of remote working is not new, and it has been in use for a while, billions of people and workplaces were caught in surprise during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to full-scale lockdowns people got stuck with their family members. And in a very short time they were expected to set up home-offices and continue working. Balancing family relations with daily work schedule was hard for many. Drawing on a sample of instructors, this study investigates how people felt and dealt with it. Homogeneous purposive sampling technique was employed. The authors contacted with people from their network and asked them to fill in the online questionnaires. The people contacted also help to reach others in their network and consequently a total of 435 people participated. Most of the sample is comprised of university instructors (44.4%); followed by secondary school (22.8%), primary school (18.6%), and high school teachers (14.3%). We developed a theoretical model based on boundary theory and study the relationships among eWork-Life interferences with technostress and psychological well-being. The results supported our hypotheses and we found that timely IT assistance might decrease the felt technostress. Implications and further study suggestions are made accordingly. © 2022, Editura Lumen. All rights reserved.Öğe Commodities spillover effect in the United States: Insight from the housing, energy, and agricultural commodity markets(Elsevier, 2021) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Alola, Uju VioletThe likelihood of information transmission among the commodity markets and within a market component has continued to offer useful knowledge for underpinning the mechanism of avoiding a market-induced financial crisis. In this light, we examine the measurement of return and volatility spillovers among the United States market components: Crude oil West Texas Intermediate and Brent (energy market), real estate investment trust (the housing market), and the wheat, corn, and soybeans (agricultural commodities). Using the novel approach of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) for the sample period January 20, 2012 to August 2, 2018, the findings suggest the following empirical regularities. First, although low in magnitude, there is return and volatility shock transmissions among the components of the markets (housing market, energy market, and the agricultural commodities). Second, among the market components, the total net volatility spillovers is higher than the total net returns. Lastly, with a smaller sample size, the total net vitality spillovers is higher than the investigated full sample size. Moreover, our investigation further reveals significant evidence of pairwise directional volatility spillovers. In term of policy for stakeholders, the findings (indication from the pairwise directional spillovers) suggest the perception of market hedging as an effective framework. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Öğe Cooling and heating degree days in the US: The role of macroeconomic variables and its impact on environmental sustainability(ELSEVIER, RADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2019) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Saint Akadiri, Seyi; Akadiri, Ada Chigozie; Alola, Uju Violet; Fatigun, Ayodeji SamsonBeyond employing the cooling and heating degree days variables for evaluating the climatic conditions and the expected energy needs in the United States, a subtle concern is the underpinning role of the environmental sustainability amidst socio-economic activities. As such, the current study is design to examine the role of fossil fuel energy consumption, ecological footprint, and urban population on the degree days viz-a-vis the cooling and heating days in the United States over the period 1960-2015. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag bound testing model employed reveals the importance of the ecological footprint, fossil fuel energy consumption, and urban population on the cooling and heating degree days of the United States. Result posits that each of fossil fuel and the urban population plays a positive and negative role as regard the cooling degree days and the heating degree days respectively, especially in the long run. Importantly, the empirical results support the argument that the increase in the consumption of the fossil fuel sources of energies are responsible to cause more cooling degree days, thus resulting to longer and hotter periods in the United States but vice versa for the heating degree days. Similarly, the investigation outcome draws from the argument that the increase in the urban population is a potential cause of high environmental temperature, thus responsible for lengthy heat periods (cooling degree days) and resulting in more energy needs and technologies for cooling. As expected, the reverse is the case for the heating degree days, especially in the long-run. As a policy standpoint, policymakers are to further adopt improved and effective guideline for housing and building constructions that are weather specifics. In formulating policy vehicle for each of the seasonal dynamics, the economic benefits of each of the climatic measurements should be considered especially for both the short- and long-run environmental sustainability. (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Öğe Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach(MDPI, ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2021) Lasisi, Taiwo Temitope; Eluwole, Kayode Kolawole; Alola, Uju Violet; Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Alola, Andrew AdewaleThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) elaborately encompass a global goal for sustainable consumption and production (Goal 12: SDGs), thus providing potential drivers and/or pathways to attaining sustainable consumption. In view of this global goal, this study examined the role of real income per capita, urbanization and especially inbound tourism in domestic material consumption for the panel of OECD countries. The study is conducted for the period of 1995 to 2016 by employing the panel quantile approach. Interestingly, an inverted U-shaped relationship between outbound tourism and domestic material consumption is established across the quantiles, thus indicating that sustainable domestic consumption is achievable after a threshold of domestic material consumption is attained. In addition, achieving sustainable consumption through economic or income growth is a herculean task for the OECD countries because the current reality indicates that income growth triggers higher consumption of domestic materials. However, the results suggest that urbanization is a recipe for sustainable domestic consumption since there is a negative and significant relationship between the two parameters across the quantiles. Nevertheless, the study presents relevant policy for efficient material and resources utilization and that is suitable to drive the SDGs for 2030 and other country-specific sustainable ambitions.Öğe Does my personality affect my competency? The role of gender identification and career adaptability among hotel employees(WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ, 2022) Çöp, Serdar; Alola, Uju Violet; Lasisi, Taiwo TemitopeThe tourism industry is the fastest growing industry in the world amidst the increase in terrorism, climate change, political instability, and other indirect negative effects on tourism. In order to survive this vulnerable, evolving, and competitive market, it is important that employees put effort into ensuring the provision of satisfactory services to satisfy customers' demand. For this purpose, this research determines the effect of personality traits on career competency (career control, reflection on motivation, networking, work exploration, self-profiling, and reflection on qualities) with the mediating role of career adaptability (curiosity concern, confidence, and control) and moderating role of gender identification. Career construction theory and social identity theory were used to justify these relationships. A total number of 330 questionnaires were filled and after discarding incomplete ones, 311 were retained for analysis, yielding a response rate of 94.2%. Using Analysis of Moment Structure 22.0 and Statistical Packages for Social Sciences 20.0, to analysis the study, the findings aid managers and policymakers in designing the organizational roles and on-the-job training for employees. Moreover, the relationship between personality traits and career adaptability can serve as a blueprint in employee recruitment and provide a new insight into employee selection. Theoretical and practical implications were provided in the concluding part.Öğe A drain or drench on biocapacity? Environmental account of fertility, marriage, and ICT in the USA and Canada(SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 2020) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Arikewuyo, Abdugaffar Olawale; Özad, Bahire; Alola, Uju Violet; Arikewuyo, Halima OluwaseyiIn either case of ecological and biocapacity surplus or deficit, the precautionary effort toward optimizing the natural capital posits a potential framework for environmental sustainability. In studying the environmental account of fertility, marriage, and technological advancement in the USA and Canada, the autoregressive distributed lad-bound testing is employed over the experimental period 1990-2014. Importantly, the study revealed that the interaction of fertility and marriage exerts a significant and negative impact of biocapacity in both the USA and Canada and in short run and long run. Moreover, while the impact of energy use in both countries is significant and positive in both the short and long run, the magnitude of the impact is almost negligible. Similarly, an improvement in technological advancement in the countries is empirically observed to cause a decline in the biocapacity in both the long and short term. These posit that both energy use and technological advancement in Canada and the USA do not necessarily improve the productive capacity of the countries ecosystems. In general, the study provides policy frameworks for stakeholders toward addressing the environmental peculiarity of the USA (a biocapacity debtor) and Canada (a biocapacity creditor).Öğe Dynamics of Punjab state’s tourist image: A social media analytics perspective(Inderscience Publishers, 2021) Ongsakul, Viput; Kajla, Tanveer; Alola, Uju Violet; Raj, Sahil; Khoa, Tran TienThis study is based on a research project funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR-IMPRESS). This research examined the dynamics of Punjab State’s tourist image from the standpoint of Social Media Analytics. This study analyses data available over social media platforms such as Twitter and TripAdvisor, for analysing user generated contents. The social media data was pre-processed for removing unwanted data which does not contribute to the analysis and reduces the accuracy of the results. By probing techniques such as “Word Cloud, Keyword Frequency Counts and Word Association”, this study is able to find various motivations for popularity of Punjab State’s tourist attractions among its consumers (tourists). Punjab State’s destination management organisations, its leaders and managers could benefit from our analysis. The findings provide suggestions on how to market the state’s tourist attractions across the country and the world at large more strategically in the foreseeable future. Copyright © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.Öğe Economic Trends and Sustainable Environmental Assessment(CRC Press, 2024) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Bekun, Festus Victor; Alola, Uju VioletThe book ‘Economic Trends and Sustainable Environmental Assessment’ attempts to x-ray the economic and socioeconomic activities, and cultural or behavioural aspects from the concept of sustainability by employing several related research scenarios spanning the micro-, meso-, and macro-level approaches. Given the increasing awareness of the importance of social, economic, environmental, and even now human sustainability aspects to a sustainable global (present) future, the relevance of the dimensions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need to be consistently examined. For instance, decades of climate-related disasters which have increasingly endangered humans are the reason for ongoing advanced advocacy, policy, and research towards achieving an environmentally sustainable or net zero emission (NZE) future. Thus, considering the illustration of the theoretical and practical dimensions of the connectedness of the economic and socioeconomic aspects with environmental dimensions, this book should hugely benefit students, researchers, and policymakers to further understand and solve some of the world’s lingering challenges. © 2024 Andrew Adewale Alola, Festus Victor Bekun and Uju Violet Alola.Öğe Environmental quality and energy import dynamics: The tourism perspective of the Coastline Mediterranean Countries (CMCs)(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, HOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY BD16 1WA, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2019) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Eluwole, Kayode Kolawole; Alola, Uju Violet; Lasisi, Taiwo Temitope; Avcı, TurgayPurpose The geographical location and the ambiance of the Coastline Mediterranean Countries (CMCs) advantageously present the region as a tourist destination with rich cultures. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach As such, this study investigates the dynamics of energy import and environmental quality in relation to international tourism development for nine CMCs over the period 1995-2013 using a pooled mean group approach. Findings Although the impacts of energy import, CO2 (here as environmental quality) and GDP on international tourism receipts are observed to be significant and negative, international tourist arrival expectedly exerts positive and significant impact, all at the adjustment speed of 0.19. A heterogeneously robust Granger non-causality test further reveals a strong one-directional causal relationship from energy import to tourism receipts. Originality/value By providing insight into the nexus of environment, energy and tourism development, the current study is the first that addresses the concern in the context of the CMCs.Öğe Environmental Sustainability Goal and the Effect of Resources Extrication: A Give and Take Perspective(Diponegoro Univ, 2022) Alola, Uju Violet; Alola, Andrew Adewale; Cop, Serdar; Tarkang, Marymagdaline EnowmbiEnvironmental sustainability is one of the vast research areas in the globe. Most industries are not left out in the quest for a sustainable environment including the hotel industry. Also, customers look for environmental friendly hotel to patronize. With this vast knowledge, the current study takes into account the relationship between green training and green employee involvement, with the mediating effect of perceived behavioural control. The sample of 306 was collected from 4 and 5-star hotel in Turkey in 2020. The study assessed the data with AMOS 20 to hypothesize the relationship between the variables. Findings confirmed that there is a positive impact of green training on perceived behavioural control, organizational citizenship behaviour towards the environment and green employee involvement. In addition, results also validated the positive effect of perceived behavioural control on organizational citizenship behaviour and green employee involvement. It contributes significantly to the ongoing research in the field of green training in the hotel industry in Turkey. These outcomes are supportive to Turkey's hotel industry green management and employee behavioural actions to the environment.Öğe Examining the effect of global energy reserves to production ratio on carbon emission in the USA(Elsevier, 2024) Alola, Andrew Adewale; Abbas, Shujaat; Alola, Uju VioletA salient perspective to the global net zero emission aspiration that has yet received sparse attention is the unabating conventional energy reserves to production ratio. Considering the both the energy and energy-related emission profiles of the United States, this study considers the outlook of the country ' s carbon neutral 2050 with reference to the coal, natural gas, and oil energy reserves to production ratios for the period 1970 to 2040. The investigation implied a number of relevant results after employing the Markov switching, cointegration, and causality approaches. The result revealed that both oil and natural gas reserves to production ratio on global scale exert a significantly and positive influence on emission of carbon dioxide in the USA while coal has negative significant effect on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission in two different regimes. From the Wavelet coherence, both in phase and anti-phase relationship, CO 2 and oil reserves-production ratio display strong interdependence while a mixed result in the short run (in phase) and medium run (anti phase) is established for CO 2 and coal reservesproduction ratio. In both short and medium run, natural gas reserves-production ratio leads CO 2, and the reverse is also true. Additionally, from the frequency domain causality result, we found causality from oil reservesproduction ratio to CO 2 while there is bidirectional causality between CO 2 and gas reserves-production ratio. The relevance of this study is that it offers insight into the seriousness of the carbon global goal amidst the dimension of energy reserves and production.Öğe Gender stereotypes in Nigerian films as a portrayal of the African womanhood: A feminist perspective(BRILL, PLANTIJNSTRAAT 2, P O BOX 9000, 2300 PA LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS, 2020) Alola, Mary I.; Alola, Uju VioletThis article examines gender stereotypes in Nigerian movies, which serves as a representation of the African womanhood. Drawing on a feminist critic perspective, the study analyzes how African womanhood and men are portrayed in Nollywood films, and also identifies the most commonly employed gender-stereotypical portrayals in these films. The theoretical framework of the study draws from feminist film theory. Findings in the study reveal that gender-stereotypical representation is highly persistent in Nollywood films, where women are often portrayed in roles that depict them as sex objects, weak, and often dependent on men. Men, on the other hand, are often depicted to be independent, successful, and breadwinners. Women are often portrayed in domesticated and traditional roles, while the men in these films take up professional and leadership roles. Analysis in the study shows that, most commonly employed female stereotypes include femme fatale, career woman, trophy wives, primary caregivers (i.e., wives, mothers), dependent, lazy, and secondary to men. This study offers the pros and cons of the representation of African womanhood through these Nigerian films and the need to address the rising potential anticultural stereotypes.Öğe A global perspective of the role of domestic economic, financial and political risks in inbound tourism(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2023) Athari, Seyed Alireza; Alola, Uju Violet; Alola, Andrew AdewalePurpose In this study, as part of an attempt to foster sustainable development, the aim is directed at understanding the perspectives of domestic economic, financial and political risks in tourism development. On the other hand, the role of other agents of sustainable development: innovation, infrastructure, health and primary education and global crisis in tourism development, was illustrated. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, the current study explored the (system) SYS-Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique for a panel of selected 73 economies over the period 2006-2017. This GMM approached is not undertaken without first establishing the stationarity (a preliminary test) of the employed dataset by utilizing the relevant unit root techniques. Findings First, the study found that minimizing risks from economic, financial and political aspects is significant and vital to the attractiveness of the tourism destinations and the eventual development of the tourism sector. Second, the study presents innovation or technological readiness and health and primary education as agents of sustainable development through the growth of international tourism arrivals while global crisis is significantly detrimental to tourism inflow. Originality/value Overall, the study presents the contribution of tourism as a pathway to sustainable development from unique dimensions. Investigating a large panel (of 73 countries) is a unique approach. In addition, considering the economic vulnerability of the panel countries from the aspects of risk arising from economic, financial and political aspects is another interesting dimension to the novelty of the study. Thus, this study offers relevant policies for tourism stakeholders.Öğe Green training an effective strategy for a cleaner environment: Study on hotel employees(WILEY, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ, 2022) Alola, Uju Violet; Çöp, Serdar; Tarkang Mary, Magdaline Enow MbiThe call for tourism sector to contribute its quota to a cleaner and a greener environment is gaining momentum. Organization's green initiative and training are mainly on employee's contribution to the environment and its sustainability. Research related to green human resource management especially green training (GT), environmental performance, and behaviors have been given little attention in the hospitality industry. The particular examination of GT and its effect on organizational citizenship behavior (OCBE) and perceived behavioral control (PBC), the mediation effect of OCBE in the above relationship is the main aim of the study. Adopting the AbilityMotivation-Opportunity theory to explore the direct and indirect effect of GT on PBC, this study surveyed 306 respondents from employees in the hotel industry. The data were analyzed using AMOS 23 version. GT stands as an important implementation to directly stimulate employee organizational citizenship behavior towards the environment (OCBE) and PBC. The practical and theoretical implication is included; also suggestions for further research are listed below.Öğe Growing together! Unmasking the intelligence behind the satisfaction of holiday couples(Springer, 2022) Tarkang, Marymagdaline Enowmbi; Alola, Uju Violet; Yumuk, YurdanurThe decisions of where and how people want to spend their leisure time have a direct effect on the tourism industry, their well-being, and their happiness. Stemming from the social comparison theory, the present study investigates the impact of couple holiday decision tactics on their emotional well-being and the satisfaction and the mediating effect of emotional well-being on the relationship between holiday decision tactics and couple satisfaction. The fundamental framework was examined using 513 questionnaires distributed online, to married couples in Turkey. The results of path analysis were obtained using SPSS and AMOS software. Results showed those decision tactics significantly and positively affect emotional well-being and couple satisfaction. Furthermore, the study confirmed that emotional well-being mediates the relationship between holiday decision tactics and couple satisfaction. This study contributes to the discussion on the effect of both partners' holiday decision tactics on their emotional well-being and their satisfaction.
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