List of contributors viiiAcknowledgements xviiPreface xix
Part One Strategy in general
1 Travel 2015: scanning the environment—the
next big thing in travel and tourism 3Marvin J. Cetron, Frederick J. DeMicco and Owen Davies
2 Scanning the business environment 15 Jorge Costa
Part Two Strategy as investments in competitiveness
3 The development of international hotel
chains in Europe 41Paul Slattery, Ian Gamse and Angela Roper
4 Industry critical success factors and
their importance in strategy 69Nicolas S. Graf
5 Hotel investment risk: what are the chances? 103 Elie Younes and Russell Kett
6 State-of-the-art cost of capital in hospitality
strategic management 115Melih Madanoglu
7 Competitive methods of multinational hotel
companies in the new millennium (2000–2007) 149Jinlin Zhao and Wei He
8 The importance of intangible assets: trends
and patterns 181Francis A. Kwansa, Cynthia Mayo and
Tevfik Demirciftci
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9 Recent findings regarding hotel brand
and strategy 203John O’Neill and Anna Mattila
10 Strategic alliances in the hospitality
industry 215Prakash K. Chathoth
Part Three Core competencies
11 Resource allocation decisions and
organizational structure 235Robert J. Harrington and Michael Ottenbacher
Part Four Functional competencies
12 Strategic human resource management:
high performance people system as core
competencies 267Kevin S. Murphy and Michael D. Olsen
13 Investing in information technology to
grow firm value 301Daniel J. Connolly
14 Strategy execution and implementation—
achieving strategic goals through operations 333Peter Jones and Alan Parker
Part Five Decision-making
15 Leadership in the hospitality industry 357 Joseph J. West and Sabina Tonarelli-Frey
16 The organizational culture and its role
in executing strategy 375Chris Roberts
17 Measuring co-alignment 391 Marcia H. Taylor and Michael D. Olsen
Part Six Implementation
18 Innovation and strategy implementation:
the key challenge in today’s competitive
atmosphere 407Sander Allegro and Rob de Graaf
19 Strategy models and their application to
small- and medium-sized enterprises 425Amit Sharma
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Part Seven Strategy and multiunit issues
20 Factors influencing entrepreneurial orientation
of ethnic minority small- and medium-sized
hospitality enterprises 453Levent Altinay and Fevzi Okumus Conclusion 479Index 481