Diversity in human and social capital: Empirical evidence from Asian tourism firms in corporate board composition

Ooi, Chai-Aun; Hooy, Chee–Wooi; Som, Ahmad Puad Mat

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2014.11.002

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“…This is especially true for service industries, such as tourism-related industries (hotel, tourist agencies, restaurants), where the social capital of managers may be of a great importance. The external networks between these kinds of companies may facilitate collaboration and influence the travelling experience (Ooi et al, 2015). Through the manager's social capital (ties with other manager members of the network), a company may receive or exchange resources (Wincent, Anokhin, & Ortqvist, 2010).…”

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The influence of intellectual capital on innovativeness and growth in tourism SMEs: empirical evidence from Slovenia and Croatia

Omerzel

Jurdana

2016

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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The innovative capability of an organisation depends on the intellectual capital that it possesses. Our research attempts to examine the influence individual intellectual capital components have on the innovativeness and consequent growth of a company. This article proposes a classification and measurement method of intellectual capital, highlighting the following three components; human capital, organisational capital, and social capital. Our aim is to explain innovation performance and company growth by showing the importance of each intellectual capital dimension on a specific type of innovation (product, process, marketing, and organisational). To this end, a questionnaire survey was performed on 2800 Slovenian and 1700 Croatian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism area. A data sample of 359 companies was analysed using SPSS 19 and the EQS 6 statistical programme to employ multivariate data analyses techniques through developed hypotheses.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The influence of intellectual capital on innovativeness and growth in tourism SMEs: empirical evidence from Slovenia and Croatia

Omerzel

Jurdana

2016

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…Moreover, tourism firms are operated in a changing environment (Tsai et al, ). They are sensitive to uncertain demands caused by such factors as seasonality, natural disasters, wars, terrorism, discretionary income of customers, floating exchange rates, and economic fluctuations (Guillet & Mattila, ; Ooi, Hooy, & Som, ; Singal, ; Tsai et al, ). For tourism firms to survive in this turbulent market, they must have an ownership structure that helps make timely decisions to properly respond to changing customer demands (C. M. Yeh & Trejos, ).…”

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Ownership structure and firm performance of listed tourism firms

Yeh

2018

Journal of Tourism Research

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Ownership structure has been identified as a critical governance component due to its effect on firm performance. Within ownership structure, issues of institutional shareholders, cash flow rights of controlling owners, and ownership discrepancy have not been examined in the tourism sector. The current study uses listed tourism firms in Taiwan to empirically examine how these three variables influence firm performance.Results show a positive effect on return on assets and Tobin's Q from the presence of institutional shareholders and cash flow rights of controlling owners. Ownership discrepancy has a negative effect on Tobin's Q. The present results can make contributions to agency theory and principles for good governance.

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“…The comparison of these different service sectors provides methodological insights into CBIC in both low-and high-tech sectors, thereby responding to the research gap identified by Harrington and Daniels (2006) who stressed the need for sector-and location-specific studies to disentangle the familiar generalizations concerning cooperation relationships in the service industries. We adhered to the list of KIBS-related NACE classes provided by Muller and Doloreux (2009) and the classifications of tourist-related sectors by MacFeely, Delaney, and O'Donoghue (2013) and Ooi, Hooy, and Som (2015) to delineate our sample of firms.…”

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Developing survey metrics for analysing cross-border proximity

Makkonen

Williams

2017

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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Cross-border innovation cooperation (CBIC) has been heralded as one of the corner stones of innovation-driven growth opportunities for firms located in cross-border regions (CBRs). The success of this cooperation is affected by varying types of proximities identified in the literature as: geographical, institutional, cultural, cognitive, technological, organizational and social. Although the topic has been widely discussed, the validation of the concept of proximity vis-à-vis CBIC has been persistently hindered by a lack of readily available empirical metrics. Therefore, this research note attempts to operationalize the varying types of proximity-in relation to CBIC-in the form of a questionnaire tested through pilot studies of two CBRs, at the Finnish-Swedish and Danish-German border, and for two contrasting service industries, namely knowledge-intensive business services and tourism. The findings indicate that the developed survey metrics are effective in depicting the phenomenon of proximity. The foundational work undertaken in this research note provides a platform, and catalyst, for more extensive investigations of the topic.

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Diversity in human and social capital: Empirical evidence from Asian tourism firms in corporate board composition

Cited by 52 publications

References 45 publications

The influence of intellectual capital on innovativeness and growth in tourism SMEs: empirical evidence from Slovenia and Croatia

The influence of intellectual capital on innovativeness and growth in tourism SMEs: empirical evidence from Slovenia and Croatia

Ownership structure and firm performance of listed tourism firms

Developing survey metrics for analysing cross-border proximity

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