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HANDBOOK OF HOSPITALITY OPERATIONS AND IT
Handbook of Hospitality Operations and IT
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Edited By
Peter Jones, Associate Dean (International) and ITCA Chair of Production and Operations Management, Faculty of Management & Law, University of Surrey, UK

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Handbooks of Hospitality Management,

Description
Handbook of Hospitality Operations and IT provides an authoritative resource for critical reviews of research into both operations and IT management. Internationally renowned scholars provide in-depth essays and explanations of case studies, to illustrate how practices and concepts can be applied to the hospitality industry. The depth and coverage of each topic is unprecedented. A must-read for hospitality researchers and educators, students and industry practitioners.

Audience
Undergraduate students, graduate students (both MS and PhD), active researchers, sophisticated industry managers, and graduate course instructors

Contents
Operations Management theory (Jones); Hospitality systems (Ball); The ?Servicescape' (Namasivayam & Lin); Role of the hospitality customer (Canziani); Waiting lines and self-service (Lambert & Wonjae Lee); The service encounter (Sparks & Weber); e-Distribution (O'Connor); ICT and Hospitality Operations (Whitelaw); Outsourcing (Promsivapallop); Operational Performance (Lockwood); Revenue management(Shoemaker); Loss Control and Security (Jones); Managing labour productivity (Christie Mill); Quality management (Affify); Innovation management (Ottenbacher); Chain Operations (Reynolds & DiPietro); Crisis Management (Moggendorf); Environmental Management (Kirk)

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 448 pages, publication date: JUN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8753-9
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

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