Transforming local knowledge into lifestyle entrepreneur’s innovativeness: exploring the linear and quadratic relationships

Abstract

and a tourism researcher at Universidad de Sevilla. Ph.D. in Management and MBA in International Business. Professor Dias has over 26 years of teaching experience. He has had several visiting positions in different countries and institutions including Brazil, Angola, Spain, Poland, and Finland. He regularly teaches in English, Portuguese, and Spanish at undergraduate, master and doctorate levels, as well as in executive programs. Professor Dias has produced extensive research in the field of Tourism and Management, including books, book chapters, papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, case studies, and working papers.

Lifestyle Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Areas: The Case of Tourism Entrepreneurs

“…Thus, the link to the place, allow forming and using essential arguments for the competitiveness and innovation generated by LE, being an essential source of business opportunities (Yachin, 2019), which are materialized in innovative ways of 'selling the place' to tourists (Schilar & Keskitalo, 2018). Furthermore, the literature recognizes that place familiarity cannot be sufficient to generate innovation because it depends on the ability of the entrepreneur to transform the opportunities and knowledge resulting from the link to the place (Dias et al, 2020b). As such, we hypothesize:…”

“…However, having a good relational capital maybe insufficient to generate innovation in these small firms (Cooper, 2015). It will depend on the ability of the entrepreneur to absorb knowledge and opportunities resulting from these links to local partners (Dias et al, 2020b). As such, knowledge absorption can act as a mediator in the relationship between relational capital and innovation.…”

Post-pandemic recovery strategies: revitalizing lifestyle entrepreneurship

“…One final reason for focusing on these entrepreneurs as a pillar for the 'new' post pandemic tourism is related with destination differentiation strategies. TLEs' offering is directed to specific niche markets (Koh & Hatten, 2002), and grounded in the uniqueness of each place (Dias et al, 2021), where they excel in product and experiences creativity, authenticity and immersivity (Richards, 2011). Thus, these tourist experiences are very much in line with what is expected to be the post-pandemic demand: selective, specific and with a greater concern for sustainability (Hall et al, 2020).…”

Retaining tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs for destination competitiveness

“…The relationship with entrepreneur self‐efficacy had already been identified before (cf. Cooper, 2014; Czernek, 2017), revealing the essential role that relationships with the community and local stakeholders play both in accessing local knowledge (Dias et al, 2021; Yachin, 2019), on which the competitiveness factors of the TLEs are based (Hoarau, 2014) and in facilitating networking and distribution channels (Yachin, 2019).…”