Environmental Scanning and Information Source Utilization: Exploring the Behavior of Hong Kong Hotel and Tourism Executives

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-190

  Jogaratnam, Giri ^a   Law, Rob ^b  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

environment; information; scanning; strategy making

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847009222     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348005284488     Document Type: Article

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