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BY:
MOHAMMED AMRA N
SALLEH MOHD RADZI
ABDUL RAZAK AZI Z
AZLAN SUPARD I
JULY 2003
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Matching Strategy with Structure: Th e Case of Hotel Industry in
Malaysia
By
Professor Mady a Mohamme d Amra n
Salleh Mohd Radz i
Abdul Razak Azi z
Azlan Supard i
(ABSTRACT)
The result s were tabulated and analyzed base d o n primar y data derive d
from a mail survey questionnaires. A total of 283 hote l firms across the
country that are rate d as 5-star, 4-star , and 3-star were invite d for
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Results indicate d that strategy was no t related to structure i n hotel firms.
It was found that all the three performance measure s were no t related to
applicable for the service industr y due to the existence of the fundamenta l
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Tarikh:18hb Julai 2003
FAKULTI PENGURUSAN HOTEL & PELANCONGAN
No Rujukan: 600-FHOTOU R (PTA . 5/3) 40450 SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN
Tel: 03-55435689/5706/5705/5704/5687/5656/5657/569 3
.-Fax:03-55435698 ' »
Prof,
Kami ingin merakamkan ucapan terima kasih kami kepada Unit BRC yang
telah banyak memberi sokongan dan dorongan berterusan didalam usaha-
usaha penyelidikan kami
Mohammed Amran
Professor Madya
Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel dan Pelancongan
s.k. 1 . Deka n
Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel dan Pelancongan
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RESEARCH PROJEC T GROU P
MOHAMMED AMRAN
PROJECT LEADER
AZLAN SUPARDI
MEMBER
SIGNATURE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
Chapter 3
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3.3 Dat a Collectio n 6 4
3.3.1 Selectio n Proces s 6 4
3.3.2 Dat a Gatherin g Proces s 6 5
3.3.3 Dat a Analysis 6 6
3.4 Instrumen t Developmen t 6 7
3.4.1 Strategie s 6 7
3.4.2 Organizationa l Structur e 6 8
3.4.3 Financia l Performanc e 6 9
3.5 Reliabilit y and Validity 7 0
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 4 Strategy-Structure-Performanc e
Variabiles 8 6
iii
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Of Formalizatio n 9 2
iv
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Table 28 Structura l Equation Modelin g
Summary Statistic s 10 3
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATION S
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
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1.1
incentive organizers .
third i n foreign exchange earner with tourists' arrival of 7.5 million . Thes e
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and it was predicte d that this sector would continue to generate incom e in
risen to 1,48 2 wit h 110,00 0 room s in the year 2000. I t is estimated tha t
the numbe r of hotels will continue to increase to 2,019 hotel s if the growt h
rate of this sector will continue to increase a t 6.5 percen t a year. Base d
The hote l industry uses the Star Rating Syste m for classifying hotel s of
rating for the year 2001, ther e are 37 6 hotel s registere d with Touris m
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Malaysia rangin g from 1 star to 5 star rating. Th e followin g i s the
Table 1
hotel rooms continues to plague the hote l sector. Averag e occupanc y rat e
in 199 9 was 51.7 percent , which is 1.8 percen t highe r than occupancy rat e
projected that the average occupanc y rat e in 2001 t o ease to 52.5 percen t
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and this rate is still considered belo w par since the break-even poin t for a
Table 2
The natur e of the hote l industry seems to possess characteristics that fit
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classify i t as a fragmented, lo w market share and hostil e environmen t
(Schaffer 1986) .
the service industry, theories and model s from the manufacturin g firm s will
1.2.1 Strateg y
time when a company i s enjoying its most recent success i s the time when
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organizations find in the environments to which they must adapt.
whole and with respect to every product and service i n the activit y
different i n service businesse s and especially i n the hote l industr y with its
given business. Sno w and Hambric k (1980 ) further added tha t thes e
and organizational structur e and the interna l process; and the leve l of
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product/market segmen t - tha t is , what sustainable competitiv e advantag e
hierarchy.
developed b y Porter (1980) an d Miles and Sno w (1978 ) hav e found the
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differentiate it s products/services s o that they are perceive d a s providin g
Miles and Sno w (1978 ) identif y four strategic types: prospector, defender ,
(Segev 1987) .
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1.2.2 Structur e
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procedures were standardized. Lin e control of workflow reflect s the
hypothesis.
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According to Robbins et al (1999) mos t current strategy-structur e
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