Foreign market entry mode in the hotel industry: The impact of country- and firm-specific factors

Factors enhancing the choice of higher resource commitment entry modes in international new ventures

“…External factors are frequently shown to exert a strong influence on the entry mode decision (Shama 2000;Zhao et al 2004;Tihanyi et al 2005). The specific characteristics of a foreign market are seen to be essential when choosing an entry mode (Yiu and Makino 2002;Quer et al 2007). In a recent review of entry mode research Canabal and White III (2008) point out that culture/cultural distance, uncertainty, risk and other institutional variables of a foreign market are the external factors that have aroused the most interest among researchers in the entry mode domain.…”

Hotel industry expansion and sustainable development: A case study of Inle Lake, Myanmar

“…Most work has treated both concepts separately (Prud'homme & Raymond, 2013;León-Darder et al, 2011;Bohdanowicz & Zientara, 2009;Quer et al, 2007;Chen & Dimou, 2005), and has not address underlying power asymmetries in value chain governance, while this is broadly considered a critical condition for sustainable development (Song et al, 2013;Bramwell, 2011;Hall, 2011;Beaumont & Dredge, 2010). The aim of this research was therefore to understand how power asymmetries in hotel value chains affect sustainable development.…”

“…First, hospitality research paid little attention to the relationship between international hotel industry expansion and sustainable development in LDCs. Most work treated both concepts separately (see for instance Prud'homme & Raymond, 2013;León-Darder et al, 2011;Bohdanowicz & Zientara, 2009;Quer, Claver, & Andreu, 2007;Chen & Dimou, 2005). In all these studies, firm or sector-centred perspectives on specific business fields prevail (Niewiadomski, 2014).…”

Firm-specific factors and entry mode choice

“…Following previous research on entry mode choice Ekeledo and Sivakumar, 2004;Erramilli and Rao, 1993;Martorell et al, 2013;Pla-Barber et al, 2010;Quer et al, 2007), we created a qualitative dependent variable with two categories:…”