TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsen,Michael D.
AU  - Zhao,Jinlin
TI  - Handbook of hospitality strategic management
SN  - 9780080450797 (hbk.) :
AV  - TX911.3.M27 
U1  - 647.94068 OLS 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, London
PB  - Butterworth-Heinemann
KW  - Hospitality industry
KW  - Management
KW  - Strategic planning
KW  - Travel and Tourism
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - thema
KW  - Hospitality & service industries
KW  - Business strategy
KW  - Management & management techniques
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part one.Strategy in general -- 1.Travel 2015: scanning the environment - the next big thing in travel and tourism. Marvin J. Cetron, Frederick J. DeMicco and Owen Davies -- 2.Scanning the business environment. Jorge Costa -- Part two.Strategy as investments in competitiveness -- 3.The development of international hotel chains in Europe. Paul Slattery, Ian Gamse and Angela Roper -- 4.Industry critical success facotrs and their importance in strategy. Nicolas S. Graf -- 5.Hotel investment risk: what are the chances? Elie Younes and Russell Kett -- 6.State-of-the-art cost of capital in hospitality strategic management. Melih Madanoglu -- 7.Competitive methods of multinational hotel companies in the new millennium (2000-2007). Jinlin Zhao and Wei He -- 8.The importance of intangible assets: trends and patterns. Francis A. Kwansa, Cyntia Mayo and Tevfik Demirciftci -- 9.Recent findings regarding hotel brand and strategy. John O\'Neill and Anna Mattila -- 10.Strategic alliances in the hospitality industry. Prvash K. Cathoth -- Part three.Core competencies -- 11.Resource allocation decisions and organizational structure. Robert J. Harrington and Michael Ottenbacker -- Part four. Functional competencies -- 12.Strategic human resource management: high performance people system as core competencies. Kevin S. Murphy and Michael D. Olsen -- 13.Investing in information technology to grown firm value. Daniel J. Connolly -- 14.Strategy execution and implementation - acheiving strategic goals through operations. Peter Jones and Alan Parker -- Part five. Decision-making -- 15.Leadership in the hospitality industry. Joseph J. West and Sabina Tomarelli-Frey -- 16.The organizational culture and its role in executing strategy. Chris Roberts -- 17.Measuring co-alignent. Marcia H. Taylor and Michael D. Olsen -- Part six.Implementation -- 18.Innovation and strategy implementation: the key challenge in today\'s competitive atmosphere. Sander Allegro and Rob de Graaf -- 19.Strategy models and their application to small-and medium-sized enterprises -- Part seven.Strategy and multiunit issues. 20.Factors influencing entrepreneurial orientation of ethnic minority small- and medium sized hospitality enterprises. Levent Altinay and Fevzi Okumus
N2  - This handbook consists of 25 chapters which critically review mainstream hospitality strategic management research topics and set directions for future research efforts. Internationally recognized leading researchers provide thorough reviews and discussions
ER  -