Plural forms versus franchise and company-owned systems: A DEA approach of hotel chain performance

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 566-578

  Botti, Laurent ^b,c   Briec, Walter ^c   Cliquet, Gérard ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b MONTPELLIER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Company owned system; DEA; Efficiency; Franchise; Kruskal Wallis; Plural form

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPANY-OWNED SYSTEM; DEA; FRANCHISE; KRUSKAL; KRUSKAL-WALLIS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; PERFORMANCE; PLURAL FORM; SERVICES NETWORK; WAYS OF THINKING;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 50649106386     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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