Social conflicts around large carnivores are increasing in Europe, often associated to the species expansion into human-modified and agricultural landscapes. Large carnivores can be seen as an added value by some but as a source of difficulties by others, depending on different values, attitudes, livelihoods, and everyday activities. Therefore, the effective involvement of the different interest groups is important to identify and shape tailored solutions that can potentially be implemented, complementing top-down approaches that might, on their own, result in lack of implementation and buy-in. To improve dialogue in conflictual situations, as part of a European project promoted by the European Parliament, we assessed the practical implementation of participatory processes in three sample areas in Europe where wolves and bears have recently been increasingly impacting human activities. Our results demonstrate that collaboration among different and generally contrasting groups is possible. Even in situations where large-carnivore impacts were seen as unsatisfactorily managed for many years, people were still willing and eager to be involved in alternative discussion processes hoping this would lead to concrete solutions. An important and common highlight among the three study areas was that all the management interventions agreed upon shared the general scope of improving the conditions of the groups most impacted by large carnivores. The process showed the importance of building trust and supporting dialogue for knowledge co-production and mitigation of conflicts between stakeholders and that controversial environmental issues have the potential to trigger a meaningful dialogue about broader societal issues. The direct involvement and support of competent authorities, as well as the upscaling of this process at larger administrative and social scales, remain important challenges.

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Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) has become an important source for customers and hoteliers, and likewise, the interactivity of Web 2.0 has allowed customers to write and share online reviews. Our study aims to examine: (1) the influence of post-stay evaluation factors toward eWOM, (2) the relationship between eWOM and hotel revisit intention, and (3) the influence of country differences as a moderating factor. A total of 872 usable responses were collected from three emerging countries. Our results suggest that post-stay evaluation was the key predictor of positive eWOM, and later transferred greater hotel revisit intention among Gen Y. In terms of country level, all countries depicted a positive relationship for all paths, and the influence of the respondents’ country moderated for some relationship in this study. Our findings also shed further light on the understanding of the generational cohort theory across emerging countries, especially in the hospitality context.

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Manapság a szervezeten belüli és szervezetek közötti munkaerőmozgások korát éljük. A vállalatok számára azonban nem jelent problémát az, hogy a távozó munkaerő helyére gyorsan találjanak naprakész ismeretekkel rendelkező új munkatársakat. A fejlett technológiai újítások révén piacvezető pozíciójáról sem kell lemondani egyetlen cégnek sem. Azonban, ha a vállalatnál felhalmozódott tudásának megtartására nem fektet különösebb hangsúlyt, különösen a kulcsemberek tekintetében, akkor piaci pozíciója veszélybe kerülhet. Ez fokozottan igaz akkor, amikor a távozó munkatárs tapasztalatáról, implicit vagy tacit tudásáról van szó, mivel ez jelenti az egyetlen olyan fenntartható versenyelőnyt, mely az üzleti élet többi szereplőjétől valóban megkülönbözteti a vállalatot. Jelen tanulmányban egy nagyobb témakört felölelő kutatás részeként lefolytatott részkutatást mutatnak be a szerzők. A vizsgálat középpontjában az átadható tudás módszertani kérdései és a tudás átadását támogató eszközök vizsgálata állt. A tanulmány célja azon eszközök azonosítása, csoportosítása, amellyel a tacit tudás átadásának fenntarthatósága bizonyíthatóan hosszú távon beépíthető a mai magyarországi vállalatok életébe.