Abstract
This paper presents three case studies developed to investigate outsourcing outcomes in the Tunisian hotel industry. The paper applies a transaction cost economics (TCE) logic to examine potential contracting problems stemming from hotel outsourcing under asset specificity conditions. Working within the tradition of post-positivism, we find case study evidence of significant falsification value regarding TCE propositions on the performance consequences of unilateral and bilateral relation-specific investments and their holdup potential. Our insights have important practical implications for the management of hotel outsourcing relationships characterized by high asset specificity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 97–106 |
| Journal | Tourism Management |
| Volume | 47 |
| Early online date | 7 Oct 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Tourism Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Tourism Management, [VOL 47, (2015)] DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.09.012© 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords
- Financial crisis
- Firm value
- Exposure
- Exchange rate risk
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Glauco De Vita
- Research Centre for Business in Society - Professor in Business and Management
Person: Teaching and Research