Employee empowerment: A key to tourism success

Tourism Management: Analysis, Behaviour and Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 493-509

  Timmerman, John E ^a   Lytle, Richard S ^b  

^a Wiley College   (United States)

^b ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Service encounter.; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155145173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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