ABSTRACT

This study conducts a literature review and thematically synthesizes 71 OTC articles published from 2002 to 2020, primarily from the leading hospitality and tourism journals. The findings reveal four topical clusters with several topics from the existing literature and further analyze the main variables and theories used in each cluster. It also presents a comprehensive knowledge of OTC literature by providing a holistic framework based on the variables identified from the reviewed articles. The article concludes with a discussion of several key research gaps in OTC research and suggestions of topics, themes, and methodologies for future research directions.

摘要

这项研究进行了文献综述，并对2002年至2020年间发表的71篇OTC文章进行了主题综合，这些文章主要来自领先的酒店和旅游期刊。调查结果揭示了四个主题类群，其中包含来自现有文献的多个主题，并进一步分析了每个类群中使用的主要变量和理论。通过基于从已审阅文章中识别出的变量提供一个整体框架，它也提供了有关OTC文献的全面知识。本文最后讨论了场外交易研究中的几个关键研究空白，并就未来研究方向的主题，主题和方法提出了建议。