Measuring Innovation in tourism fron the schumpeterian and the dynamic-capabilities perspectives

This paper offers a diagnosis of the"state of the issue" regarding the measurement of innovation in the tourism industry at the company level, and some recommendations for overcoming identified problems. The study addresses two central issues: how existing secondary databases of innovative activity define the boundaries of the tourism industry, and the degree to which these databases reflect the particular characteristics of this economic activity. It is concluded that these analyses present serious biases and anomalies hindering the understanding of the situation at the micro level and complicating the issue of international comparability, and the analyses do not capture the internal heter…

On how to measure managerial and organizational capabilities

This paper specifies how to construct and validate an instrument based on multi-item scales for the cataloguing and measurement of managerial and organizational capabilities on the basis of management perceptions. The construction and reduction of the scales have been reinforced by the Delphi and retesting techniques. The use of this methodology was illustrated in a sample of Spanish industrial firms. The paper enhances the value of the instruments for a resource-based view with regard to the faithful and rigorous measurement of its key concept, distinctive competences. The scales created provide consistent empirical evidence to remove doubts surrounding managerial self-evaluation, includin…

A Review of Absorptive Capacity

Determinantes de la competitividad basados en el conocimiento : evidencias extraídas de una plataforma de inteligencia aplicada al sector turístico español

Este artículo analiza la situación competitiva de la empresa turística española en cuanto a las capacidades tecnológicas e informacionales de que dispone para impulsar una competitividad basada en el conocimiento. Tras el diagnóstico, se presentan los resultados de una investigación colaborativa orientada a desarrollar una nueva plataforma TIC. Las evidencias empíricas extraídas de cuatro casos piloto de implantación de esta plataforma de inteligencia competitiva avalan con rotundidad el potencial de creación de valor y de mejora de la competitividad esperable de soluciones de esta naturaleza.

Technological strategic alliances and performance : the mediating effect of knowledge-based competencies

This study provides an empirical evidence of the relationship that exists between participation in technological strategic alliances and business performance by considering the knowledge-based distinctive competencies that the alliance is capable of generating as a mediating variable. The generation of knowledge in technological strategic alliances explains the contradictory results in the literature about the direct effect of strategic alliances on economic performance. The study uses a sample of Spanish industrial firms. The results findings prove that the relationship between technological strategic alliances, and performance is mediated by the generation of knowledge-based distinctive c…

Business models in Spanish industry : a taxonomy-based efficacy analysis

The present study provides a conceptualization of the business model construct from which a multi-dimensional evaluation tool is developed that provides the basis for drawing up a taxonomy and analysing its comparative efficacy. The empirical data was obtained from a sampling of 159 Spanish business organisations. The cluster analysis revealed the existence of four business models that were designated as “multidivisional”, “integrated”, “hybrid” and “network”. The results also indicate that the adoption of a certain business model is not enough to attain superior performance, highlighting the need to consider other contingent factors.

A bibliometric analysis of the literature on non-financial information reporting: Review of the research and network visualization

[EN] This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of articles on the topic of non-financial information (NFI) reporting. The exponential growth over the last decade (90% of the articles were published in the last 10 years) indicates the relevance of the topic, but little is known about the structure and extent of research in this academic field. The purpose of this article is to provide a structured and up-to-date picture of the state of the art on the topic. We analyse the most relevant articles, authors, journals, countries and organizations. The analysis includes 3113 articles, collected from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection from 1970 —when the first two articles on the topic were…