A Bibliometric Overview of Tourism Family Business

Abstract

Family businesses are of particular economic relevance in the international hospitality and tourism industry. However, there are few studies that address their specific characteristics and objectives. The aim of this study is to produce a bibliometric overview that reveals the structure underpinning the analysis of the tourism family business in the business and management research field. The study also reveals the evolution of this research over time, as well as the most relevant related concepts and study gaps. Through a keyword co-occurrence analysis and a systematic review of 129 studies on tourism family businesses published between 1997 and 2020, the main contributions were organized into four thematic clusters, which include specific theoretical approaches. The clusters are Entrepreneurship, Marketing Orientation and Innovation Performance; Capabilities and Competitiveness; Sustainability; and Strategy and Economic Performance. On the basis of these results, this study introduces an integrative framework for tourism family business research, clarifying the rich diversity of research paths that seek to explain tourism business competitiveness, and identifying potential directions for future research aimed at further developing the field.

Exploring the Research Regarding Frugal Innovation and Business Sustainability through Bibliometric Analysis

“…Bibliometric analysis is a critical component of moving a study area forward since it provides a comprehensive audit trail for sharing and legitimizing current research as well as laying the path for new studies to arise [148]. Bibliometric analysis investigates the formal attributes of fields of knowledge by using mathematical and statistical techniques by examining the networks established around the most representative keywords as well as the manner in which citations, scholars, affiliations, counties, and publications indicate the importance of specific topics in the field of research [79,149].…”

Mapping Knowledge Area Analysis in E-Learning Systems Based on Cloud Computing

“…Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the development of bibliometric analysis as a major scientific endeavor, and bibliometrics have been extensively applied in a variety of research subjects, such as business [61], cloud computing [62], computer science [63], food [64], management [65], mathematics [66], smart learning [45,67], and many others. The bibliometric analysis represents a critical component of study area development because it offers a thorough audit trail to disseminate and validate current research while also paving the way for new studies to be conducted [68].…”

Tourism/Hospitality and family business: a perspective article

“…Building on the first major review by Getz and Carlsen (2005), more recent review studies focus on a general mapping of the existing state of the art, identifying main themes (Camilleri and Valeri, 2021; Shekhar et al ., 2021) and related theoretical approaches (Forés et al ., 2021); others are specific to a geographical area, such as South Africa (Ramukumba, 2023) or Latin America (López-Chávez et al ., 2021), while further studies introduce research methods (Baggio and Valeri, 2022) and others drivers and roles of family members in business (Arcese et al ., 2021; Elmo et al ., 2020).…”

“…Topically, most of the past contributions in the field focused on family business characteristics (Shekhar et al ., 2021) and entrepreneurship and innovation (Forés et al ., 2021) from a planning and business management perspective (López-Chávez et al ., 2021).…”