Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism.

ISBN:

9781317162919

Title:

Author:

Pechlaner, Harald.

Personal Author:

Pechlaner, Harald.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Contents:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Innovation in Tourism and Strategic Management Approaches -- PART I INNOVATION AND RESOURCE-BASED APPROACHES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT -- 2 A Resource-based Approach to Innovation in the Hospitality Industry - Case Study Analysis -- 3 Green Entrepreneurship: What Drives Resource Efficiency in Tourism? -- PART II INNOVATION IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY -- 4 Current Innovation Perspectives in the European Hotel Industry: An Exploratory Analysis -- 5 Innovation in Tourism Firms -- 6 Determinants of Innovation Processes in the Hotel Industry: Empirical Evidence from Western Austria -- 7 Correlation of Macroeconomic Development in Relation to the Development of Supply and Demand in the Hotel Trade and its Economic Efficiency -- PART III INNOVATION IN DESTINATIONS -- 8 The Impact of Innovativeness on Mountain Destination Development -- 9 Drivers of Innovation in Tourism - From Imitation to Adaptation? An Interview with Josef Margreiter, Managing Director of the Tyrolean Tourism Board -- 10 Experience Design: Competencies for Innovation -- 11 How to Create Destination Capabilities in the Field of New Product Development -- 12 Competence-based Innovation in New Zealand Wine Tourism: Partial Strategies for Partial Industrialization -- 13 The Margaret River Wine Region: Analysing Key Resources as a Basis for a Competitive Wellness Tourism Destination -- 14 Conclusion -- Index.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Hospitality industry--Management.

Added Author:

Innerhofer, Elisa.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

Taylor and Francis,

2016.

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Summary

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments. Changing environmental and market conditions continually force hotel businesses and service providers to offer their customers new and modified products and services, in order to remain competitive; those which respect value perceptions of markets and sustainable stakeholder reactions. This then raises the question of how innovations within this industry must be developed in order to achieve competitive differentiation.

The book demonstrates that the development and analysis of successful innovation strategies should integrate the resource-based view and its advancements, the competence-based view, as well as the dynamic capabilities approach and the relational view. Resource-based strategic management approaches view the firm as a bundle of resources and competences. They point to the importance of firm-specific resources and competences in explaining variations in competitive positions and performance differentiation between companies. The challenge of hospitality and tourism is to develop resources and competences that drive innovations.

This book will serve to advance the status quo of tourism research literature by combining innovation theories with network theories and tourism and destination development, by illustrating the development of cooperative competences and innovations in tourism and by showing, in a tailored way, how the challenge of the development of resources and competences that drive innovations in tourism can be managed.

Author Notes

Dr Harald Pechlaner is the Professor and holder of the Chair of Tourism, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany and Scientific Director of the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management at the European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He is the assessor for a number of scientific journals and he is a Member of several boards such as the Editorial Advisory Board of Tourism and Hospitality. He has been published in many English journals.

Dr Elisa Innerhofer is a Senior researcher at the European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management. Her book entitled Strategic Innovation in the Hotel Industry was published by Springer, in German in July 2012.