TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsen,Michael D.
AU  - Zhao,Jinlin
ED  - ScienceDirect (Online service)
TI  - Handbook of hospitality strategic management
T2  - Handbooks of hospitality management
SN  - 9780080450797
AV  - TX911.3.M27 H375 2008
U1  - 647.940684 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, London
PB  - Butterworth-Heinemann
KW  - Hospitality industry
KW  - Management
KW  - Strategic planning
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The environment - essential skills for the hospitality manager; Industry critical success factors and their importance strategy; The investment process and managing strategy for the multinational; Hotel investment risk: What are the chances?; Determining the cost of capital; Real estate investments as a strategic choice; Industry wide competitive methods - the key construct of strategy, industry practices; Valuing; Intangibles as competitive methods; Pricing - strategic choices in creating value; Strategic alliances - strategic choices; Resource allocation decisions and organizational structure; Human resource management - high performance work practice systems as core competencies; The role of technology in organizational structure and as an important core competency; Strategy execution and implementation - realizing strategy through operations; The role of management information systems in executing strategy; Leadership - the critical competency in executing strategy; The organizational climate and its role in executing strategy; Communication and its role in executing strategy; The importance of alignment and how alignment is determined; Innovation and strategy implementation - the key challenge in today's competitive atmosphere; The role of change in executing strategy; Translating strategic direction into executical plans; Strategy models and their application to the developing world; Strategy models and their application to small and medium sized enterprises; Strategy models and their application to multinunit firms; Electronic reproduction; Amsterdam; Elsevier Science & Technology; 2009; Mode of access: World Wide Web; System requirements: Web browser; Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 3, 2009); Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions
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