Purpose This paper aims to identify and ranks constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in
developing countries. It offers a framework to differentiate between the constraints faced by …

Tourism seasonality generates negative environmental and economic impacts. This paper
analyzes the effects of seasonality on the efficiency of the hotel industry in the Balearic …

There is a dearth of studies analysing the relationship between demand variations,
productivity and flexible working in the face of variable demand challenges confronting the …

Two processes can be used to summarize the productive-mix of a tourism-led economy: the
lack of a significant secondary sector and strong tertiarization. Both developments have had …

This paper investigates the inefficiencies of inputs in the hotel industry. To do this, we apply
the weighted Russell directional distance model (Barros et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2014) …

Measures of productivity reveal large differences across producers even within narrowly
defined industries. Traditional measures of productivity, however, will associate differences …

Employee performance is a determining factor in achieving company goals. One of the
factors that influence employee performance is the work culture in the company. This …

The analysis of productivity in tourism has mainly focused at sectoral level. However, the
strong dependence on services and its impact at macroeconomic level in tourism-led …

The article examines hotels' labour productivity growth over the period of financial crisis. We
decompose hotels' labour productivity into three components: technological change …

The earlier literature either measured management practices in terms of the general
management traits or did not account for the effects on firm performance. However, the …