IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/por/emrpij/v1y2011i1p25-35.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The innovative behaviour of tourism firms

Author

Listed:
  • Odília A. M. Meneses

    (Faculdade de Economia do Porto)

  • Aurora A C Teixeira

    (Faculdade de Economia do Porto)

Abstract

Tourism is a growing and an extremely competitive sector. To be competitive, tourism firms need do innovate, responding to the more and more demanding tourist. Nonetheless, research on this field is limited and insufficient. In Portugal, the tourism sector is a highly strategic sector for the Portuguese economy, but there is no evidence on how Portuguese tourism firms innovate. This paper presents a thesis proposal with the aim to provide empirical evidence of the innovative behaviour of Portuguese tourism firm. Trough a direct survey on all the Portuguese tourism firms we intent to investigate firms’ innovativeness and their determinants and then compare the results with data from Danish and Spanish tourism firms. The literature on innovation in services and in tourism, in particular Sunbdo et al. (2007) taxonomy of tourism firms, provides us a guide to our investigation. It is also our aim to contribute with additional findings on the process of innovation in the tourism industry.

Suggested Citation

  • Odília A. M. Meneses & Aurora A C Teixeira, 2011. "The innovative behaviour of tourism firms," Economics and Management Research Projects: An International Journal, Open Access International Journals, vol. 1(1), pages 25-35, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:por:emrpij:v:1:y:2011:i:1:p:25-35
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.fep.up.pt/repec/por/emrpij/files/EMRPIJ.v1.is1.p25.35.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. de Vries, Erik J., 2006. "Innovation in services in networks of organizations and in the distribution of services," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(7), pages 1037-1051, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jorge M. Andraz & Nélia M. Norte & Hugo S. Gonçalves, 2016. "Do tourism spillovers matter in regional economic analysis? An application to Portugal," Tourism Economics, , vol. 22(5), pages 939-963, October.
    2. NAGY Andrea, 2012. "A Review Of Tourism And Hospitality Innovation Research," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(2), pages 364-370, December.
    3. Ooi, Chai-Aun & Hooy, Chee-Wooi & Mat Som, Ahmad Puad, 2015. "Diversity in human and social capital: Empirical evidence from Asian tourism firms in corporate board composition," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 139-153.
    4. Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues, 2013. "Spatial analysis of the tourism supply, in Portugal, at NUTs III level," EconStor Preprints 71762, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    5. Christina Boycheva, 2017. "Innovation and Competitiveness in the Context of the Bulgarian Tourism Industry," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 1, pages 137-148, March.
    6. Zrinka Marusic & Ana Aleksic & Mirjana Pejic Bach & Mislav Ante Omazic & Jovana Zoroja, 2019. "Determinants of Innovation in Hotel and Travel Agency Service Industry: Impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Enterprise Readiness," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 17(1-B), pages 209-225.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2009. "Innovation dans les services et entrepreneuriaT : au-delà des conceptions industrialistes et technologistes du développement durable," Innovations, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 59-86.
    2. Georgios Giotis & Evangelia Papadionysiou, 2022. "The Role of Managerial and Technological Innovations in the Tourism Industry: A Review of the Empirical Literature," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-20, April.
    3. Benoît Desmarchelier & Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2018. "Public Service Innovation Networks (PSINs): Collaborating for Innovation and Value Creation," Working Papers halshs-01934275, HAL.
    4. Marja Toivonen, 2010. "Different Types of Innovation Processes in Services and their Organisational Implications," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), The Handbook of Innovation and Services, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Kindström, Daniel & Kowalkowski, Christian & Sandberg, Erik, 2013. "Enabling service innovation: A dynamic capabilities approach," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 66(8), pages 1063-1073.
    6. Bettina Peters & Rebecca Riley & Iulia Siedschlag & Priit Vahter & John McQuinn, 2018. "Internationalisation, innovation and productivity in services: evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 154(3), pages 585-615, August.
    7. Noronha, Teresa, 2013. "KIBS in Peripheral Regions: Major Outlines," Spatial and Organizational Dynamics Discussion Papers 2013-4, CIEO-Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve.
    8. Faïz Gallouj & Maria Savona, 2009. "Innovation in services: a review of the debate and a research agenda," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 149-172, April.
    9. Giulio Maggiore & Alfonso Morvillo, 2015. "L?innovazione nei servizi pubblici: un caso nel settore sanitario," ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(1), pages 127-153.
    10. Peters, Bettina & Riley, Rebecca & Siedschlag, Iulia & Vahter, Priit & McQuinn, John, 2014. "Innovation and Productivity in Services:Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom," Papers WP480, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
    11. Trigo, Alexandre & Vence, Xavier, 2012. "Scope and patterns of innovation cooperation in Spanish service enterprises," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(3), pages 602-613.
    12. Faïz Gallouj & Maria Savona, 2010. "Towards a Theory of Innovation in Services: A State of the Art," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Faridah Djellal (ed.), The Handbook of Innovation and Services, chapter 1, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    13. Djellal, Faridah & Gallouj, Faïz & Miles, Ian, 2013. "Two decades of research on innovation in services: Which place for public services?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 27(C), pages 98-117.
    14. Gallouj, Faïz, 2002. "Services innovation: assimilation, differentiation, inversion and integration," MPRA Paper 62174, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Benoît Desmarchelier & Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2018. "Innovation in public services in the light of public administration paradigms and service innovation perspectives," Working Papers halshs-01934280, HAL.
    16. Faïz Gallouj & Marja Toivonen, 2011. "Elaborating the characteristics-based approach to service innovation: making the service process visible," Journal of Innovation Economics, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(2), pages 33-58.
    17. Marcella De Martino, 2015. "L?innovazione collaborativa nei porti: aspetti metodologici ed alcune evidenze empiriche," ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(1), pages 105-126.
    18. Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2018. "Fifteen advances in service innovation studies," Chapters, in: Ada Scupola & Lars Fuglsang (ed.), Services, Experiences and Innovation, chapter 3, pages 39-65, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    19. NAGY Andrea, 2012. "A Review Of Tourism And Hospitality Innovation Research," Annals of Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 1(2), pages 364-370, December.
    20. Jon Sundbo, 2013. "Public–private innovation networks in services: the crucial role of entrepreneurial fit," Chapters, in: Faïz Gallouj & Luis Rubalcaba & Paul Windrum (ed.), Public–Private Innovation Networks in Services, chapter 14, pages 349-383, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Innovation; Tourism Industries; Portugal;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:por:emrpij:v:1:y:2011:i:1:p:25-35. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Pedro Cosme C Vieira (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fepuppt.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.