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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Restaurant Firms"”.
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Cost management preferences of small restaurant firms
… is to test cost management preferences of small restaurant firms. It attempts to identify whether managers of small restaurant firms behave differently depending on the level of conflict as noted by agency theory and expense preference theory; Data from 87 private small restaurant firms were …
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A case study investigation of strategy implementation in three multi-unit restaurant firms
… process of strategy implementation in multi-unit restaurant firms. A model comprised of five context variables and five process variables was developed on the basis of a review of the theoretical literature about the restaurant industry, strategy implementation, and organization theory. …
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An exploratory study of human resource management and business strategy in multiunit restaurant firms
… (HRM) functional activities in the multiunit restaurant firms, focusing at the unit restaurant managers level. The second objective is to investigate the relationship between the firm's business strategy and its HRM practices. This study addresses the critical need for empirical research that …
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An exploratory study of the impact of strategy and structure on the organizational performance of restaurant firms
… to their changing environments. For firms in the maturing hospitality industry to survive and succeed, they will have to depend upon their ability to strategically align themselves with the turbulent environment, and select appropriate strategies to create defendable competitive …
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Co-alignment between Environment Risk, Corporate Strategy, Capital Structure, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of Restaurant Firms
… the study included corporate level data of restaurant firms. The research design included cross-sectional data of restaurant firms that were averaged across an a priori defined time period. These firms were selected based on certain criteria that helped control for country effects and …
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Intangible Assets Valuation in the Hospitality Industry
Market value of firms and book value of firms are rarely the same. The difference, which is attributed to unrecorded or unrecognized intangible assets, has increased significantly since the 1970s. The issue of appropriately valuing these intangible assets, however, still remains unresolved. The …
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A Model for the Development and Implementation of Core Competencies in Restaurant Companies for Superior Financial Performance
The purpose of this study was to identify whether firms that implement and develop core competencies perform significantly better than firms that do not. A model of core competency implementation and development in restaurant firms was developed and tested in three casual dining restaurant firms. …
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Underlying Risk Dimensions in the Restaurant Industry: A Strategic Finance Approach
One of the keys for restaurant managers in conducting a proper assessment of their business opportunities is through understanding the level of risk these opportunities bear. This can be achieved by analyzing the causal relationships between external environmental forces and internal capabilities …
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The relationship between managerial holdings and performance: An empirical study on the restaurant industry
… return, was examined for the publicly traded restaurant companies during the period of 1995-1996. Additionally, the study investigated whether the degree of association between managerial ownership and performance, as measured by the same variables, differs across three groups identified by …
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
… model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a 92-percent accuracy in classifying the in-sample firms into bankrupt and non-bankrupt groups one year prior to bankruptcy, and a 83-percent accuracy two years prior to bankruptcy. This …
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Predicting business failure in the hospitality industry: an application of logit model
… this phenomenon in the hospitality industry. The restaurant industry has consistently had the most business failures of any single segment within the retail trade sector in the eighties. Therefore, there were three purposes in this study: 1) to develop a model for predicting business failure which …
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The Moderating Role of the Industry Structure on the Causal Relationships between Remote Risks, Task Risks, and Industry Performance: Empirical Study of the U.S. Casual Theme Restaurant Industry
… in relation to the structure of the casual theme restaurant industry, and to examine the performance consequences of their relationships. This study proposed a framework of analysis that will enable industry participants to develop an improved understanding of the relationships among environmental …
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Demand uncertainty and investment in the restaurant industry
… lingering in the U.S. economy has dampened restaurant performance. Economic uncertainty affects consumer sentiment and spending, turning into demand uncertainty. Nevertheless, the highly competitive nature of the restaurant industry does not allow much room for restaurants to actively …
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An Exploratory Study of the Strategic Value of Information Technology: A Theoretical Application of the Co-Alignment Model
… survey responses of unit managers of multi-unit restaurant companies of the U.S. and Korea. Since the mail survey was conducted in two different nations, relevant multi cultural issues are also addressed to justify the use of combined samples for the study. The results of the statistical analyses …