Effective machine learning, meta-heuristic algorithms and multi-criteria decision making to minimizing human resource turnover

N Pourkhodabakhsh, MM Mamoudan… - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
Employee turnover is one of the most important issues in human resource management,
which is a combination of soft and hard skills. This makes it difficult for managers to make …

Impact of user fees for visitors to national parks in the presence of alternative sites

Y Shoji, H Kim, T Tsuge, K Kuriyama - Annals of Tourism Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes an approach using the Kuhn–Tucker model to determine the extent to
which the number of visitors to a recreational site would decrease if a user fee were …

[HTML][HTML] Tourists' perceptions of economic instruments as sustainable policies in protected areas: The case of Geiranger fjord in Norway

M Díez-Gutiérrez, S Babri - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2022 - Elsevier
Tourism in protected areas boosts local economies while adversely affecting the
environment, local communities, and tourists. To tackle the negative effects of increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Flagship species and certification types affect consumer preferences for wildlife-friendly rice labels

K Mameno, T Kubo, K Ujiie, Y Shoji - Ecological Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildlife-friendly food labels are used to reduce information asymmetry and thus enhance
agrobiodiversity conservation via marketing mechanisms. The labels make different claims …

Integration of preference heterogeneity into sustainable nature conservation: From practice to policy

JA Zabala, JA Albaladejo-García, N Navarro… - Journal for Nature …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to assess and understand the social drivers that determine the
willingness to pay for sustainable management measures to preserve a Natura 2000 area …

Approaches for multicriteria decision-making based on the hesitant fuzzy best–worst method

J Li, L Niu, Q Chen, Z Wang - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Springer
Hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs) have been widely applied in multicriteria
decision-making (MCDM) for their ability to efficiently express hesitant information. To …

Giving voice to tourists: Improving the governance of protected areas through tourists' perceptions and expectations

B Wang, S He, Y Sun, Q Min - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although numerous studies have explored the role of government, conservation managers
and local residents in the governance of protected areas, little attention has been paid to the …

Beyond purchase intention in sports sponsorship: an alternative approach to measuring brand equity using best-worst scaling

KH Almaiman, L Ang, H Winzar - European Journal of Marketing, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of sports sponsorship on brand
equity using two managerially related outcomes: price premium and market share …

[HTML][HTML] An empirical comparison of conjoint and best-worst scaling case III methods

H Cheng, T Zhang, DM Lambert, R Feuz - Journal of Behavioral and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Best-Worst Scaling (BWS) case III method, also called the BWS 'multi-profile
case.'has been widely used to characterize survey respondent preferences for market …

Choices in sustainable food consumption: How Spanish low intake organic consumers behave

T Madureira, F Nunes, J Veiga, P Saralegui-Diez - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
The consumption of organic products has consistently increased over the last decades,
covering increasingly diversified consumers, both in the characteristics and the reasons …