The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management

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ISBN: 9781412900256 | 1412900255
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/19/2008

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The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research, and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect of hospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principle ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it.

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List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Editorial Introduction	p. 1
Key Themes in Hospitality Management	p. 35
The Nature and Meanings of 'Hospitality'	p. 37
The Structure and Nature of the International Hospitality Industry	p. 62
The Inter-Relationships between Leisure, Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality	p. 90
Women in Hospitality	p. 107
A Critique of Hospitality Research and its Advocacy of Multi- and Interdisciplinary Approaches: An Alternative Agenda	p. 129
Hospitality Management Education	p. 146
Generic Management Functions in the Hospitality Industry	p. 163
From the Top Down: Strategic Management in the Hospitality Industry	p. 165
From the Bottom Up: Operations Management in the Hospitality Industry	p. 192
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry	p. 213
Financial Management in the Hospitality Industry: Themes and Issues	p. 228
Organizational Studies and Hospitality Management	p. 257
Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry	p. 273
Marketing and Consumer Behavior in Hospitality	p. 302
Service Quality and Hospitality Organizations	p. 316
Information Technology Strategy in the Hospitality Industry	p. 331
Specialized Management Functions in the Hospitality Industry	p. 359
Hotel Real Estate Finance and Investments	p. 361
Accommodation and Facilities Management	p. 383
The MICE Industry: Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions	p. 400
Food and Beverage Management	p. 421
Food Production and Service Systems Theory	p. 443
Licensed Retail Management	p. 460
Flight Catering Management	p. 484
Resort Management	p. 503
Event Design and Management	p. 518
Index	p. 541
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