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Integrating hotel environmental strategies with management control: a structuration approach
Author(s) -
Chung Lai Hong,
Parker Lee D.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.546
Subject(s) - structuration theory , context (archaeology) , control (management) , business , management control system , process management , hotel industry , strategic management , hotel management , key (lock) , environmental resource management , marketing , knowledge management , management , economics , political science , computer science , tourism , paleontology , computer security , law , biology
This study addresses the development of environmental strategies and associated management control in the international hotel industry, a sector of major economic and environmental impact hitherto largely neglected in the environmental management and accountability literature. The low key level of commitment to environmental management currently exhibited by the industry is considered in the context of dominant systems of hotel management performance evaluation and control, as well as the industry's current strategic management and budgetary practices. Informed by Giddens' structuration theory, the study offers a new theoretical framework, environmentally efficient resourcing, as a structured approach to the development of hotel environmental strategy and its management. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.