Firm, strategic group, and location effects in the Spanish hotel industry;Efectos empresa, grupo estratégico y localización en el sector hotelero español

Cuadernos de Economia y Direccion de la Empresa

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-138

  Moliner, Jorge Pereira ^a   Cortés, Enrique Claver ^a   Azorín, José Francisco Molina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Firm effect; Multilevel analysis Hotel industry; Strategic groups Location

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866448684     PISSN: 11385758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cede.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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