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  • Competition, total quality management practices, and performance: Evidence from upscale hotels

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    Patiar, Anoop
    Davidson, Michael
    Wang, Ying
    Year published
    2012
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    Hotels operate in a highly competitive market and therefore place a strong emphasis on quality management in order to gain/maintain competitiveness. This research examined the relationship between total quality management (tQM), market competition, and hotel departmental financial and nonfinancial performance. The data were collected from a sample of Australian and Indian hotels using a self-administered postal survey. the results suggested that while tQM and market competition had a direct interactive effect on hotel departmental nonfinancial performance, the effect on the financial performance was indirect. It was also ...
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    Hotels operate in a highly competitive market and therefore place a strong emphasis on quality management in order to gain/maintain competitiveness. This research examined the relationship between total quality management (tQM), market competition, and hotel departmental financial and nonfinancial performance. The data were collected from a sample of Australian and Indian hotels using a self-administered postal survey. the results suggested that while tQM and market competition had a direct interactive effect on hotel departmental nonfinancial performance, the effect on the financial performance was indirect. It was also suggested that those hotels subscribing to tQM philosophy were more likely to thrive on competition.
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    Journal Title
    Tourism Analysis
    Volume
    17
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.3727/108354212X13388995267904
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Cognizant Communication Corporation. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/48529
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