dc.contributor.advisor | Guilding, Chris | |
dc.contributor.author | Turner, Michael James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-23T02:15:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-23T02:15:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.25904/1912/2793 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365224 | |
dc.description.abstract | Australian hotels compete with hotels in other countries in the international tourism market
and must therefore be in good physical condition to meet international and domestic traveller
expectations. This highlights the importance of hotels maintaining a continuing vigilance
with respect to ensuring asset related expenditure decision making is appropriately
conducted. Such decisions are, however, complex due to their high dollar value as well as
their cyclical, ambiguous and frequently irreversible nature. The broad aim of this research is
to further understanding of factors relating to asset expenditure management practices in
Australian hotels, a topic that has drawn little prior research attention.
The thesis has drawn extensively on theories of agency theory and organisational power. The
study adopted a mixed methods approach utilising two empirical phases. The first phase
involved a series of face-to-face interviews with six different stakeholder groups representing
asset managers, hotel lawyers, hotel auditors, hotel owners, hotel general managers, and hotel
financial controllers. A total of twenty interviews were conducted. The second phase
involved the administration of a questionnaire survey to general managers of Australian and
New Zealand hotels with twenty or more rooms and a star-rating of three or more. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Griffith University | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane | |
dc.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
dc.subject.keywords | International tourism market | |
dc.subject.keywords | Asset expenditure management | |
dc.subject.keywords | Hotel industry | |
dc.title | An Investigation of Asset Expenditure Management in Australian Hotels | |
dc.type | Griffith thesis | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Business School | |
gro.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
dc.contributor.otheradvisor | McManus, Lisa | |
dc.rights.accessRights | Public | |
gro.identifier.gurtID | gu1358731890184 | |
gro.source.ADTshelfno | ADT0 | |
gro.source.GURTshelfno | GURT1376 | |
gro.thesis.degreelevel | Thesis (PhD Doctorate) | |
gro.thesis.degreeprogram | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
gro.department | Griffith Business School | |
gro.griffith.author | Turner, Michael James | |