Handbook of hospitality strategic management / edited by Michael Olsen, Jinlin Zhao.
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TextSeries: Handbooks of hospitality managementPublication details: Amsterdam ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008.Description: xxiv, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0080450792 (hbk.)
- 9780080450797 (hbk.)
- 647.94068 OLS
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 647.94068 OLS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100339267 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Handbook of Hospitality Strategic Management provides a critical review of mainstream hospitality strategic management research topics. Internationally recognized leading researchers provide thorough reviews and discussions, reviewing strategic management research by topic, as well as illustrating how theories and concepts can be applied in the hospitality industry. This book covers all aspects of strategic management in hospitality. The depth and coverage of each topic is unprecedented. A must-read for hospitality researchers and educators, students and industry practitioners.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of contributors (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. xvii)
- Preface (p. xix)
- Part 1 Strategy in general
- 1 Travel 2015: scanning the environment-the next big thing in travel and tourism (p. 3)
- 2 Scanning the business environment (p. 15)
- Part 2 Strategy as investments in competitiveness
- 3 The development of international hotel chains in Europe (p. 41)
- 4 Industry critical success factors and their importance in strategy (p. 69)
- 5 Hotel investment risk: what are the chances? (p. 103)
- 6 State-of-the-art cost of capital in hospitality strategic management (p. 115)
- 7 Competitive methods of multinational hotel companies in the new millennium (2000-2007) (p. 149)
- 8 The importance of intangible assets: trends and patterns (p. 181)
- 9 Recent findings regarding hotel brand and strategy (p. 203)
- 10 Strategic alliances in the hospitality industry (p. 215)
- Part 3 Core competencies
- 11 Resource allocation decisions and organizational structure (p. 235)
- Part 4 Functional competencies
- 12 Strategic human resource management: high performance people system as core competencies (p. 267)
- 13 Investing in information technology to grow firm value (p. 301)
- 14 Strategy execution and implementation-achieving strategic goals through operations (p. 333)
- Part 5 Decision-making
- 15 Leadership in the hospitality industry (p. 357)
- 16 The organizational culture and its role in executing strategy (p. 375)
- 17 Measuring co-alignment (p. 391)
- Part 6 Implementation
- 18 Innovation and strategy implementation: the key challenge in today's competitive atmosphere (p. 407)
- 19 Strategy models and their application to small- and medium-sized enterprises (p. 425)
- Part 7 Strategy and multiunit issues
- 20 Factors influencing entrepreneurial orientation of ethnic minority small- and medium-sized hospitality enterprises (p. 453)
- Conclusion (p. 479)
- Index (p. 481)