Research on outsourcing by hotel firms: Current state and future directions

TF Espino-Rodríguez - Tourism and Hospitality, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article aims to analyse the current state of hotel outsourcing research and where it
should go in the future. Research on outsourcing is increasingly present in the hospitality …

The impact of perceived benefits and risks on current and desired levels of outsourcing: Hotel managers' perspective

S Elhoushy, IE Salem, G Agag - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the interactions between perceived benefits
and risks of outsourcing and outsourcing adoption from the hoteliers' perspective. Data were …

Activity outsourcing and competitive strategy in the hotel industry. The moderator role of asset specificity

TF Espino-Rodríguez, PC Lai - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Does outsourcing moderate the effects of asset specificity on performance? An application in Taiwanese hotels

TF Espino-Rodríguez, P Chun-Lai… - Journal of Hospitality and …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

The impact of the organizational culture on hotel outsourcing and sustainable performance an empirical application in the Egyptian hotel sector

M Gebril Taha, TF Espino-Rodríguez - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the concept of an organizational culture in hotels has held an important
position on both a theoretical and practical level because this culture significantly affects …

Factors determining hotel activity outsourcing. An approach based on competitive advantage

TF Espino-Rodríguez… - International Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
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 …

Transaction cost and resources based views on hotels' outsourcing mechanism: An empirical study in China

Y Zhang, E Ma, H Qu - Journal of Hospitality Marketing & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Guided by the Transaction Cost Theory and the Resource Base Views, the
study proposed a framework on hotel outsourcing decisions and empirically tested it. Data …

Hotel outsourcing under asset specificity:“The good, the bad and the ugly”

G De Vita, A Tekaya - Tourism Management, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents three case studies developed to investigate outsourcing outcomes in
the Tunisian hotel industry. The paper applies a transaction cost economics (TCE) logic to …

The structural and infrastructural decisions of operations management in the hotel sector and their impact on organizational performance

TF Espino-Rodríguez… - Tourism and Hospitality …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The operations management literature has reached a stage of maturity in addressing
operations area decisions. However, few studies have analysed these decisions in service …