Editorial: networks, dynamics, and innovation in the Tourism industry

Ness, Håvard; Fuglsang, Lars; Eide, Dorthe

doi:10.1080/15022250.2018.1522719

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Tourism literature argues that research into the influence and coordination of multiple actors participating in strategy development needs to be more detailed [54,57]. The stakeholder theory acknowledges that shareholders influence a firm's performance in the long run, while value creation is not solely reflected in profit maximization [29].…”

Section: Family Firms As Major Tourism Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development

Glowka

Zehrer

2019

Sustainability

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In developing and sustaining tourism, destination management involves the coordination of various stakeholders, and theory suggests that securing sustainability, including stakeholder interests in decision-making and strategic planning is crucial. Therefore, understanding stakeholders’ interests and relationships is also essential. In the Austrian Alpine region, small- and medium-sized family businesses offering tourism products dominate the rural tourism landscape. However, little research has been done on how these family firms contribute to shaping the destination’s future. Therefore, through guided interviews, this qualitative study examined family-business owners’ perceptions of risks for Austrian tourism destination development. Family firms externalized such risks as labor shortage as a structural issue and neglected their responsibility to attract employees by improving working conditions. Thus, the externalization of risks to other stakeholder groups prevented family firms’ proactive approach to sustainable destination development.

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Section: Family Firms As Major Tourism Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development

Glowka

Zehrer

2019

Sustainability

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“…Networks are considered highly important in tourism context (Ness et al, 2018). Through collaboration, stakeholders form a network where nodes (e.g.…”

Section: Collaboration In Tourismmentioning

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Creating shared collaborative tourism identity in a post-communist environment

Pilving

Kull

Suškevičs

et al. 2021

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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Collaboration is important for fostering tourism in a region and the creation of a shared collaborative identity facilitates this process. This paper explains the role of individual identities in the process of creating a shared tourism collaborative identity in a postcommunist environment. To this end, it uses multi-grounded theory to analyse 37 individual interviews and 1 focus group interview conducted in 2 tourist destinations in Estonia. In the constantly evolving post-communist tourism environment, collaborative identity creation relates to self-construction at the individual, interpersonal, and group levels. This study shows that the place, occupational, cultural, and environmental identities in a given place shape and form shared tourism collaborative identities; however, a collaborative platform is required for shared collaborative identity creation. Specifically, during the shared collaborative identity creation, stakeholders bring their own identities to the process through the platform, on which individual and collective identities interact. The platform magnifies or weakens the perceptions of the shared collaborative identity. As collaboration broadens, the platform shifts from a small group to bigger groups. Nonetheless, during this the shared tourism collaborative identity creation is vulnerable, as stakeholders may perceive threats to their individual identities.

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“…Time and budget constraints and an unfavourable position compared to larger businesses might discourage micro-firms from engaging in formal networks (van der Zee & Vanneste, 2015). Moreover, networks are not static nor a resource, but a dynamic set of relationships an actor possesses and needs to maintain (Ness et al, 2018).…”

Section: Network In a Tourism Micro-firm Contextmentioning

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Alters & functions: exploring the ego-networks of tourism micro-firms

Yachin

2020

Tourism Recreation Research

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For tourism micro-firms, networks embody a potential to pursue opportunities and compensate for lack of resources and missing skills. This study explores the ego-networks of tourism micro-firms. A focused approach that uses multiple name generators is applied to elicit significant alters and understand their functional characteristics. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with owner-managers of tourism micro-firms in rural Sweden. A block-model presents an abstract image of a tourism micro-firm's ego-network. It accounts for alters' attributes, location and number of functions they fulfil. The networks incorporate social, business-related and interest-based ties. The analysis brings forth the meaning that entrepreneurs assign to their relationships. Ownermanagers of tourism micro-firms incline to utilise existing ties in their immediate environment for multiple purposes. Cognitive proximity and personal comparability are crucial factors in determining with whom entrepreneurs associate. The micro-perspective provided by this study contributes to the growing body of tourism literature on networks, entrepreneurship and microfirms. Particularly, the block-model and identified network functions constitute a framework within which researchers can study the ego-networks of micro-firms. For entrepreneurs, this framework is a valuable reference point against which they can develop their ego-networks and understand how they can utilise the knowledge and resource embedded in them.

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Editorial: networks, dynamics, and innovation in the Tourism industry

Cited by 12 publications

References 67 publications

Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development

Tourism Family-Business Owners’ Risk Perception: Its Impact on Destination Development

Creating shared collaborative tourism identity in a post-communist environment

Alters & functions: exploring the ego-networks of tourism micro-firms

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