The systems approach to the improvement of innovation in Slovenian tourism

Ropret, Marko; Jakulin, Tadeja Jere; Likar, Borut

doi:10.1108/k-07-2013-0154

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“…To succeed, socially responsible innovative management has to become more involved in tourist activities (Zenko and Sardi, 2014). Firms in the tourism business should be ambitious in planning innovation strategies, enabling them to adapt to global market forces (Ropret et al, 2014), and should be able to manage innovation in terms of a holistic approach, systemic thinking, social responsibility and sustainable tourism (Strambach and Surmeier, 2013;Strukelj and Suligoj, 2014). IJCHM 28,3 Dwyer et al (2014) stressed a strong positive association between innovation and strategic flexibility; they also argued that fostering innovation enables firms to "keep up the good work".…”

Section: Firm Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of research on innovation in hospitality and tourism

Gomezelj

2016

IJCHM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the state of academic research on innovation in tourism. The authors present a systematic review of the literature, different research approaches and perspectives on tourism innovation; offer a synthesis of our findings and provide a discussion and proposals for future research. Design/methodology/approach Existing studies on innovation in hospitality and tourism (included in the Web of Knowledge database) were reviewed, and their limitations were identified. A procedure used in previous studies (Crossan and Apaydin, 2010; Tranfield et al., 2003; Becheikh et al., 2006) was applied. Moreover, aiming to reveal theoretical foundations of tourism innovation research and identify their structure, a bibliometric analysis was performed. Findings This paper identifies 152 published papers that represent the major efforts in expanding the body of research on innovation in hospitality and tourism. The importance of innovation for business and regional competitiveness and success has been recognised by both researchers and practitioners. In the papers included in the sample of this paper, the authors identified a general consensus that much remains to be done in the development of the theory of innovation in tourism. Through bibliometric analysis, nine co-citation networks, or clusters, were retrieved by applying co-citation relations among the most cited authors. The examination of these nine clusters revealed some dominant themes that characterise the field. Research limitations/implications The authors used three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. While these databases may not include all relevant research, the authors, nonetheless, believe that by using a rigorous procedure in reviewing the literature systematically, they were able to reduce the probability of neglecting any information that would critically change the content of the present paper. Practical implications The aim of this paper was to bring together the prior research with presently existing models that may be used in further research. For the continuation of the research, the authors propose additional studies with the aim of theory development. By introducing new theoretical ideas and theoretical models, more qualitative and inductive research would help to stimulate further work. As stated above, researchers could go further by undertaking quantitative methods to empirically verify the theoretically proposed models. Originality/value Since the last review (Hjalager, 2010) of past studies in tourism innovation, mostly focusing on studies up to 2009, tourism innovation research has grown noticeably in terms of diverse topics. In this paper’s database, the year with the most publications was 2012 with 48 papers, followed by 2014 with 42 (by 19 September), 2010 and 2011 with 41 and 2009 with 29. To the authors’ knowledge, no updated reviews focusing on innovation in tourism have been published recently. This study, consisting of a systematic review of academic literature, includes analyses of the international context, the methodology used, the points of view, the level of analysis (micro-level, macro-level and general level) and the type of innovation discussed in the paper. Moreover, the authors did not find any studies that used bibliometric analysis to identify the structure of the theoretical foundation of research in the area of innovation in tourism.

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Section: Firm Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of research on innovation in hospitality and tourism

Gomezelj

2016

IJCHM

354

309

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“…System dynamics in travel and tourism research is used by other researchers as well (Borštnar et al, 2011;Jere Jakulin, 2016, 2017Lazanski & Kljajic, 2006;Mai & Smith, 2018;Patterson et al, 2004;Ropret et al, 2014;Sedarati et al, 2019;Štumpf & Vojtko, 2016;Tegegne et al, 2018;Vojtko & Volfová, 2015). The tourism destination system involves a great number of stakeholders.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Entrepreneurs in Tourism Destination Management System: A Conceptual Model

Štumpf¹,

Business²,

Hradec³

et al. 2021

International Scientific Conference EMAN – Economics and Management: How to Cope With Disrupted Times

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A tourism destination is defined as an open, complex and adaptive system in which numerous relations in the economic, social and environmental spheres are generated. This paper aims to define a conceptual model of tourism destination management as a complex system and to identify the role of entrepreneurs as key stakeholder in a tourism destination. The main methodological approaches were systems thinking and system dynamics. A Causal Loops Diagram (CLD) enabled to cover the complexity of the tourism system and to identify relations among a number of stakeholders and elements in a tourism destination. The authors identified crucial elements of the entrepreneur sub-system involved in a high number of causal loops to establish the importance of entrepreneurs in the destination management system. Profits of individual entrepreneurs and the occupancy of hospitality and tourism services represent the model’s most frequent variables from the entrepreneurs’ perspective.

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“…This way, it has been argued that systems approach has turned out to be one of the best alternatives for the understanding and study of tourism (Harrison, 2007; Jovicic, 2019; Merinero-Rodríguez and Pulido-Fernández, 2016) as well as of other fields of research (Drack and Schwarz, 2010; Mingers and White, 2010; Troncale, 1988), from a non-linear and integrating way (Farrell and Twining-Ward, 2004), overcoming or complementing mechanistic and reductionists approaches (Drack and Schwarz, 2010) which could respond to emerging and complex topics (Baggio, 2014; Kaspar and Laesser, 1992; Peric and Djurkin, 2014; Ropret et al , 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban tourism: a systems approach – state of the art

Romero-García

Aguilar-Gallegos

Matamoros

et al. 2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of the urban tourism literature that uses the systems approach to outline its research trajectory and detect its trends. Urban tourism is a complex phenomenon whose complexity increases at the very moment it interacts with complex environments. To deal with this kind of issues, urban tourism-related authors have used different approaches, with the systems approach being one of the best alternatives for its understanding and study. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was conducted using two sets of keywords related to urban tourism and systems approach. Scopus, ScienceDirect and Web of Science databases were used for the peer-reviewed literature search. After filtering processes were applied, 29 publications were retained for the analysis. Findings This paper provides a significant overview of the existing publications regarding this topic. A theme of common interest and trends for future investigations were detected. Based on the findings, future works to be developed with the use of the systems approach, and its tools are proposed. Originality/value This review gives promising evidence on that the use of the systems approach for future urban tourism studies is a viable alternative to the application of other dominant approaches, to manage the complexity, diversity and dynamism of the urban tourism and of its environment, which is nowadays addressed as Smart. Then, the paper seeks to foster the use of systems approach and its systemic tools for the understanding and study of urban tourism as a complex system.

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The systems approach to the improvement of innovation in Slovenian tourism

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

A systematic review of research on innovation in hospitality and tourism

A systematic review of research on innovation in hospitality and tourism

The Role of Entrepreneurs in Tourism Destination Management System: A Conceptual Model

Urban tourism: a systems approach – state of the art

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