El Desempeño Innovador En Las Empresas Turísticas Españolas
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Despite the importance of innovation in tourism, there is little research on the innovative development in tourism enterprises (Hjalager, 2002; Sundbo, Orfila-Sintes, and Sorensen, 2007).This article shows different activities of the innovative performance of tourism enterprises from the resources and capacities based approach. Thus, we analyze the way internal and external capabilities and resources of the tourism business affect the development of technological, process and organizational innovations. In addition we analyze the main obstacles that tourism companies face in the process of innovation. To do this, we use the PITEC (Technological Innovation Panel) database, analyzing its 177 tourism businesses (CNAE2009, 0031). PITEC is a panel type database that allows the monitoring of the technological innovation activities of Spanish companies; it’s the result of the joint effort of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).Our results show a differential impact of innovative performance. Thus, as it could be expected, the organizational innovations are more important than both product and process innovations. We also note that internal innovation capabilities, together with the use of external sources of innovation, encourage innovation performance. However we note that the use of external resources is limited, such as the establishment of strategic alliances with other companies.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2416333283