Purpose This paper reviews the past 20 years of empirical research, based on the resource-
based view (RBV) of the firm, in hospitality and tourism literature. There has been a …

This paper presents a review of the concept of asset specificity and of the impact which asset
specificity is expected to exert on the performance of buyer–supplier relationships. The …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate dependencies that arise between
companies during the ramp-up of production volume in the electric vehicle (EV) supply …

This study seeks to better understand the link of a tourism firm's intellectual capital to
innovation performance, empirically testing the mediating role of absorptive capacity and …

This paper analyzes hotel outsourcing from the perspective of the competitive strategy and
asset specificity. A comprehensive model is developed to establish the relationships among …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify research themes in service operations that
have great potential for exciting and innovative conceptual and empirical work. To frame …

This paper presents the results of research conducted to identify the factors that influence
the decisions of company management to outsource accounting services. A transaction cost …

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the form of governance (outsourcing or
insourcing) moderates the relationship between asset specificity and performance. The …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the levels of the main hotel outsourcing
activities to identify the factors that determine the use of external suppliers for these …

Revenue management (RM) in the hotel industry is fundamental as a revenue enhancer,
and it is an integral part of the overall strategy of many hotel properties. However …