Hotel operating modes, necessary to look at a chain's degree of exercised control over the foreign This control involves four non-mutually-exclusive dimensions
•1. The daily operation of the hotel, e.g., the hiring and scheduling of personnel and the securement of supplies
• 2. Physical assets (primarily property ownership and the maintenance thereof
•3. organizational routines and tacit elements of the company, such as the culture and systems to gain both efficiency and effectiveness
• 4. Codified assets, such as the brand and reservations system