... in hospitality and tourism and compares current uses of netnography against traditional ethnographic methodologies. Findings There are four major differentiating points between netnography and ethnography: online community definitions, data collection methodologies, ethics in research and data analysis...

... be contacted at: jtaylor@olemiss.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Data analysis Restaurants Procurement Modelling Service industries The menu drives purchasing and production decisions in all restaurant operations, from procurement to preparation to the sales price...

... efficiencies. Subsequently, there have been many extensions to this model. For an assumption of variable returns to scale, it further allows the decomposition of technical efficiency into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Process efficiency Data analysis Hotel and catering industry...