Robin Nunkoo, Ph.D
I am a Professor in the Department of Management, Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius. I was the Head, Department of Management between 2014 and 2016. I am also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and an Adjunct Professor at Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University.
I hold a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. I was the recipient of the University of Waterloo International Doctoral Scholarship and the Graduate Scholarship (Total value: CAN $ 110,000.00). I also hold hold a Master of Philosophy (2010, University of Mauritius), supervised by Dr. Dogan Gursoy, Distinguished Professor at Washington State University, USA; a Master's degree in Tourism Management (2005); a Master's degree in Development Administration (2003), both from the University of Westminster, UK; and a Bachelor's degree in Economics (2001) from the University of Mumbai, India.
I am an economist by academic training, specializing in political economy. My current research draws widely from political science and investigates the interplay among citizens' trust (distrust) in government (and institutions), power issues in development, and political support for development and government policies. I also research on corruption in government, voting behaviors of citizens, and political party affiliations in democratic economies. I am also interested in citizens' political support for tourism policies and planning implemented by the government.
I have been honored with the Emerging Scholar of Distinction Award 2014 by International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) for exceptional contributions to tourism research. The award will be conferred on me in May 2015, Rhodes, Greece. I am also recognized as one of the top 50 researchers (ranked 21st) in tourism based on publications in leading tourism journals in the second decade of the new millennium (2010-2019): Cao, Y (2020). Hospitality and tourism research rankings by author, university, and country using six major journals: The second decade of the new millennium. Iowa State University: US. Available from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/18017
I am the Associate Editor for the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, a Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research, and the Regional Editor (Africa) for the Journal of China Tourism Research. I am also an editorial board member of several leading academic journals.
Address: Department of Management
Faculty of Law and Managem
Reduit
Mauritius
I hold a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. I was the recipient of the University of Waterloo International Doctoral Scholarship and the Graduate Scholarship (Total value: CAN $ 110,000.00). I also hold hold a Master of Philosophy (2010, University of Mauritius), supervised by Dr. Dogan Gursoy, Distinguished Professor at Washington State University, USA; a Master's degree in Tourism Management (2005); a Master's degree in Development Administration (2003), both from the University of Westminster, UK; and a Bachelor's degree in Economics (2001) from the University of Mumbai, India.
I am an economist by academic training, specializing in political economy. My current research draws widely from political science and investigates the interplay among citizens' trust (distrust) in government (and institutions), power issues in development, and political support for development and government policies. I also research on corruption in government, voting behaviors of citizens, and political party affiliations in democratic economies. I am also interested in citizens' political support for tourism policies and planning implemented by the government.
I have been honored with the Emerging Scholar of Distinction Award 2014 by International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) for exceptional contributions to tourism research. The award will be conferred on me in May 2015, Rhodes, Greece. I am also recognized as one of the top 50 researchers (ranked 21st) in tourism based on publications in leading tourism journals in the second decade of the new millennium (2010-2019): Cao, Y (2020). Hospitality and tourism research rankings by author, university, and country using six major journals: The second decade of the new millennium. Iowa State University: US. Available from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/18017
I am the Associate Editor for the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, a Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research, and the Regional Editor (Africa) for the Journal of China Tourism Research. I am also an editorial board member of several leading academic journals.
Address: Department of Management
Faculty of Law and Managem
Reduit
Mauritius
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Keywords: Climate change; Global warming; Skepticism; Denial; Agnotology
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Design/methodology/approach-The study uses a grounded theory approach to identify thematic categories that represent participants' attitudes toward food waste and the barriers they face to food waste reduction. We used a purposive sampling technique to guide the selection of participants. Interviews were conducted with 14 participants: three experts in food waste and 11 households. The data were analyzed using the tools of grounded theory.
Findings-Participants' expressed views on food waste included (1) guilt toward wasting food; (2) (lack of) environmental awareness; (3) financial considerations and (4) exemption from responsibility. The findings also led to the development of four themes that defined the barriers participants face to recycling food waste: (1) lack of awareness; (2) space limitations on recycling methods; (3) inadequate policy and (4) lack of time/priority.
Practical implications-Addressing the problem of food waste requires a holistic approach that takes into account households' attitudes to food waste, their motivation and barriers to food waste recycling as well as the regulatory and institutional framework governing food waste management in Mauritius. Policymakers should try to improve households' knowledge about food waste through educational campaigns. The authorities can provide different types of bins to households freely to facilitate the sorting out of waste and impose a fee for food waste generated beyond a certain limit or provide subsidies to them for handling food waste properly.
Originality/value-The management of food waste is particularly challenging for small islands developing states because of their unique characteristics of smallness, limited resources and environmental vulnerability. Appropriate interventions to reduce household food waste require place-based and geographically sensitive analyses that take into account the specificities of local food and waste management systems and cultural norms with respect to food. However, there is not only a paucity of research on household food waste, but most studies have been carried out in nonisland economies. The study contributes to the limited research on household food waste in small islands.
Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a quantitative approach, making use of a structured questionnaire to collect data from 158 public sector organisations. Both email and postal methods were used for data collection. A hierarchical regression analysis is used to assess the effect of the organisational factors on PMS effectiveness, while controlling for a number of organisational profile variables.
Findings – Results indicate that PMS is only moderately effective. Managers’ involvement, senior management involvement and performance feedback are significant predictors of PMSs effectiveness.
Research limitations/implications – Findings of the study may have limited applicability to developed and industrialised countries and even developing countries that have a different public sector culture to that of
Mauritius.
Practical implications – The findings demonstrate that the effectiveness of PMSs is strongly reliant on the involvement of senior management. Accordingly, public sector managers should ensure that they are fully
committed and engaged in performance management tasks.
Originality/value – The study contributes to the limited research on the effectiveness of PMSs in developing countries that have a different bureaucratic and performance culture to that of developed nations.
Keywords: Climate change; Global warming; Skepticism; Denial; Agnotology
Design/methodology/approach-The study uses a grounded theory approach to identify thematic categories that represent participants' attitudes toward food waste and the barriers they face to food waste reduction. We used a purposive sampling technique to guide the selection of participants. Interviews were conducted with 14 participants: three experts in food waste and 11 households. The data were analyzed using the tools of grounded theory.
Findings-Participants' expressed views on food waste included (1) guilt toward wasting food; (2) (lack of) environmental awareness; (3) financial considerations and (4) exemption from responsibility. The findings also led to the development of four themes that defined the barriers participants face to recycling food waste: (1) lack of awareness; (2) space limitations on recycling methods; (3) inadequate policy and (4) lack of time/priority.
Practical implications-Addressing the problem of food waste requires a holistic approach that takes into account households' attitudes to food waste, their motivation and barriers to food waste recycling as well as the regulatory and institutional framework governing food waste management in Mauritius. Policymakers should try to improve households' knowledge about food waste through educational campaigns. The authorities can provide different types of bins to households freely to facilitate the sorting out of waste and impose a fee for food waste generated beyond a certain limit or provide subsidies to them for handling food waste properly.
Originality/value-The management of food waste is particularly challenging for small islands developing states because of their unique characteristics of smallness, limited resources and environmental vulnerability. Appropriate interventions to reduce household food waste require place-based and geographically sensitive analyses that take into account the specificities of local food and waste management systems and cultural norms with respect to food. However, there is not only a paucity of research on household food waste, but most studies have been carried out in nonisland economies. The study contributes to the limited research on household food waste in small islands.
Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a quantitative approach, making use of a structured questionnaire to collect data from 158 public sector organisations. Both email and postal methods were used for data collection. A hierarchical regression analysis is used to assess the effect of the organisational factors on PMS effectiveness, while controlling for a number of organisational profile variables.
Findings – Results indicate that PMS is only moderately effective. Managers’ involvement, senior management involvement and performance feedback are significant predictors of PMSs effectiveness.
Research limitations/implications – Findings of the study may have limited applicability to developed and industrialised countries and even developing countries that have a different public sector culture to that of
Mauritius.
Practical implications – The findings demonstrate that the effectiveness of PMSs is strongly reliant on the involvement of senior management. Accordingly, public sector managers should ensure that they are fully
committed and engaged in performance management tasks.
Originality/value – The study contributes to the limited research on the effectiveness of PMSs in developing countries that have a different bureaucratic and performance culture to that of developed nations.
Design/methodology/approach – The model is tested using data collected from 672 guests staying in accommodation establishments located in South Africa. The study follows a hierarchical approach using confirmatory factor analysis to test the second-order factor model and structural equation modeling to test the overall model.
Findings – The results indicate that the second-order factor model is acceptable both empirically as well as conceptually and performs better than other competing models of service quality. The findings provide support for all hypotheses and evidence of a structural model with a high explanatory power.
Research limitations/implications – The second-order factor model is less useful when fine-grained analyses are needed, such as when a detailed assessment of the level of quality of service offered by a hospitality organization is required.
Practical implications – The second-order factor model allows for an analysis of service quality at different levels of abstraction. Accommodation managers interested in customers’ evaluation of service on a cumulative basis can make use of the global measure to determine service quality evaluations. Practitioners can also use the findings to manage the different dimensions of service quality.
Originality/value – The study demonstrates that service quality is best represented as a second-order factor, and in doing so, it provides an improved measurement of the construct. More so, by integrating the variable in a nomological network, the research develops a more parsimonious model than the existing ones.
A series of one-way ANOVA and t-test were also conducted to investigate the relationship between prior product knowledge and use of external sources of information. Results indicate that nationality and prior product knowledge influence travelers' information search behavior. Findings also indicate that for both first-time and repeat visitors, the Internet was an important source of information. However, travel agencies, friends and relatives, information leaflets and National Tourism Offices were found to be more important sources of information for first-time travelers than repeat visitors. The results also suggest that different marketing and communication strategies are necessary to effectively target consumers from the diverse European countries. In conclusion, recommendations for destination marketers in Mauritius are discussed. These include developing close contacts and good relationships with travel agencies, increasing online marketing techniques, encouraging positive word-of-mouth and increasing attention to tourists' satisfaction amongst others. Some limitations of the research are also discussed.
Management in further detail by considering average number of citations per article, the distribution of citations and authors across subject areas, and country affiliation of authors. We also investigate research team characteristics such as team size, and knowledge, geographic, and cultural diversity. We speculate that larger and more diverse teams may be required as a research discipline emerges, as authors take on more challenging research questions which will require a team possessing more varied expertise. We take a 16-year perspective, including all issues of Industrial Marketing Management from 1997 through 2012.
the journal over 47 years, from 1973 (inception of the journal) to 2019. We adopt a modestly different approach compared to previous research. To determine the disciplinary influences on research published in Annals (knowledge inflows), we use the references the journal's articles have cited. To understand the influence of Annals (knowledge outflows), we analyze all works (within and outside tourism) in which Annal's articles appear as a reference. We find that intra-disciplinary citations dominate knowledge inflows; Knowledge inflows from marketing, general business and psychology has increased; Hegemonic knowledge structures dominate Annals' research; Annals' research can be described as evolutionary, intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary.
Design/methodology/approach – To achieve the objective of this research, this paper provides a review of 90 journal articles on residents’ attitudes towards tourism published between 2011 and 2017. The relevant articles were then analysed using content analysis.
Findings – Key findings revealed that although social exchange theory is still dominant in exploring residents’ attitudes towards tourism, new frameworks are beginning to emerge such as institutional theory and bottom-up spillover theory. Nonetheless, alternative theoretical perspective has only been applied once or twice and requires further engagement.Quantitative methods still dominate the field, with the geographic dispersal of studies spanning 33 countries.
Research limitations/implications – A potential limitation of this review is that articles published only in four leading tourism journals, namely, ATR, JTR, TM and JOST, were analysed.
Originality/value – This review contributes to the literature in tourism by assessing the shift in the application of theory and methodological approaches in residents’ attitudes studies from previous systematic reviews. This study adds to the body of knowledge by providing an overview of the existing status of research on residents’ attitudes towards tourism, providing direction for future scholarly inquiry. A further contribution of this review is an indication of not only the data collection methods but also data
analysis techniques which have not been done in previous review articles on residents’ attitudes towards tourism. As opposed to other systematic reviews, this paper assessed the geographical setting of studies on residents’ attitudes towards tourism.
Nunkoo R., Hall, C. M., and Ladsawut, J. Gender and Methodology in Tourism Social Science Research. Annals of Tourism Research, in press.