This paper assessed roles budget target setting plays in effective performance measurement in Nigerian hotel industry. The survey research method was adopted for this study. The study population consisted of all the managers, Accountants, Account and Finance, personnel and other hoteliers of hotels located in Kaduna state. The sample size consisted of fifty respondents drawn from ten selected h...

In recognition that they largely control the context in which legalised gambling is operated, state governments in Australia have taken an increasingly active role in encouraging the gambling industry to implement responsible gambling practices. In the state of Queensland, the government introduced the voluntary Queensland Responsible Gambling Code of Practice in May 2002. This paper reports pa...

In this work, we consider distributed protocols that operate on arbitrary networks. The analysis of such protocols is challenging, as an arbitrarily chosen network may have limited global symmetry. We describe a methodology that uncovers significant local symmetries by appropriately abstracting node neighborhoods in a network. The local symmetries give rise to uniform compositional proofs of co...

Inn this paper, we present ann algorithm to compute structural deadlocks inn coloredd nets under specifiedd conditions. Insteadd of appl ying the ordinary algorithm onn the unfoldedd Petri net, our algorithm take s advantage of the structure of the color functions. It is obtainedd by iterat ive optimizations of the ordinary algorithm. Eachh optimizationn is specifiedd by a m eta-rule, whose app...

User-Generated Content (UGC) is changing the way consumers shop for goods. It is increasingly being recognized that the textual content of product reviews is an important determinant of consumers’ choices, over and above any numeric information. Similarly, websites that facilitate the creation of social tags by users can influence the desirability of a product or service. Moreover, one can harn...

We examine the relationship between employee supervision and compensation by taking advantage of the structure of the hotel industry, in which many chains have both company managed and franchised properties. Given that supervision is less rigorous at company managed establishments, we estimate differences in wages and human resource practices not only across company managed and franchised hotel...