Mehmet Erdem (Hospitality), along with Ata Atadil and Alison Green of University of West Florida, recently co-authored "Digital Natives in the Hospitality Workforce: An Exploratory Study on Mobile Dependency" in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management. It is one of the first studies that developed and tested a mobile dependency (MD) scale within the hospitality and tourism (H&T) context and can be used by H&T organizations to evaluate the MD of their current and potential employees.