Measures of productivity reveal large differences across producers even within narrowly defined industries. Traditional measures of productivity, however, will associate differences in demand volatility to differences in productivity when adjusting factors of production is costly. I document...

An important difference between lodging sharing economy marketplaces (e.g., Airbnb) and traditional hotels is that the guest may be sharing the property with a local host. While shared properties are on average cheaper compared to listings where the guest occupies the entire (and hence larger)...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to provide new insights into the factors that influence cancellation behaviour with respect to hotel bookings. The data is based on individual bookings drawn from a hotel reservation system database comprising nine hotels.Approach – The determinants of...

This paper empirically examines the impact of online reputation on investment in hotel industry. Recent theory suggests that reputation could have ambiguous effects on investments. Using detailed firm-level data on investment expenditures, and online consumer ratings from Taiwanese hotels, I...

The tourism worldwide is continuously making high development ascent and the same is a result of the expansion in the hotel industry. About that is very remarkable the improvement of the working processes, i.e. the quality of the service, but also the construction of numerous new facilities,...

The key role played by public information in market economies is paramount. Yet, investigation on how prices are affected is hindered by intricate endogeneity and parametrization issues. This paper contributes to the literature by identifying and studying a case where public information is...

The daily number of occupied hotel rooms in three large Swedish cities is modelled by an integer-valued and binomial autoregression. The model includes the capacity constraint and price variables are incorporated through the parameters of the model. The model implies a duration of hotel visit...

In recent international hotel strategy literature, institutional differences between home and host country have been mostly neglected. Although concepts such as institutional distance have become more prevalent as analytical tools in the mainstream international business literature, not much of...

Using organisational justice and organisational support theory, this study examines the relationships between individuals’ perceptions of organisational justice and the organisational support they are provided, and their well-being and discretionary effort. A hypothesised model was developed...