Suchergebnisse

Ethnic minorities and mountainous areas, especially in developing countries, are often less developed than other regions. Although these areas have quite a lot of mineral resources, forest resources; harsh climates, difficult and inaccessible terrain, combined with political and social marginality certainly contribute to making difficulties in developing economies in general and industry in special. The article summarizes and analyzes previous studies on sustainable development in general, sustainable industrial development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, in particular, to clarify which contents and issues have been studies and which contents need care for further studies, then a research model was proposed in line with the orientation of developing industry in ethnic minority and mountain areas sustainably.

Our purpose in this study was to provide a clear understanding of spa hotel customers' behavioral intention formation by examining the intricate relationships among quality, emotion (pleasure and arousal), satisfaction, and desire, and their effect on behavioral intention. Participants
were 300 customers who had visited a spa hotel and used spa services in South Korea at least once within the past 3 years. Results showed the criticality of 3 spa quality dimensions (tangibility, assurance, and empathy) in eliciting pleasure. In addition, pleasure significantly contributed
to improving satisfaction and desire, both of which led to behavioral intention. Results also showed that pleasure, satisfaction, and desire played a crucial mediating role in the theoretical framework. Finally, we successfully built a theoretical framework that efficiently links spa quality
→ emotion → satisfaction/desire → behavioral intention in a sequential manner.

The article analyses the dynamics of technological catch-up through entrepreneurship in latecomer firms to emerging markets. With this aim, the article introduces Vietnam's experience and illustrates the result of three case studies of Vietnamese technology firms at different stages of their evolution. Insights from the cases reveal all follow an incremental innovation model based on business model 'soft' innovations, mainly in customer-facing activities and partnering, as well as limited products and technology adaptation to local market needs. Consistently with latecomer firms' theory, the market drives these firm's innovation efforts, which are concentrated on developing new services and comprehensive solutions rather than new technologies. Comparisons of the findings with recent and similar experiences of Chinese firms highlight that different stages of catch-up lead to different innovation practices in nature and degree, and the need to strengthen institutions to face competition, rather than use the former to shelter from the latter. The Vietnamese firms' innovation practices and catch-up patterns found are then discussed under the perspective of reaping the benefits of international knowledge and technology flows and the specific challenges faced by Vietnam. The paper concludes with several reflections, lessons learned and perspectives for other newly industrializing emerging countries.