Entrepreneurial ecosystems in smart cities for tourism development: From stakeholder perceptions to regional tourism policy implications

Eichelberger, Sarah; Peters, Mike; Pikkemaat, Birgit; Chan, Chung-Shing

doi:10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.06.011

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“…In the family-driven H&T industry EEs represent a new and yet not established research field (Bachinger et al 2020;Eichelberger et al 2020;Milwood and Maxwell 2020). As a result adapted approaches of measuring EE outcomes next to density, fluidity and connectivity (Stangler and Bell-Masterson 2015) are needed to account for regional EEs.…”

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“…EEs have become popular also among practitioners and policymakers on the regional level because they elevate the relevance of a like-minded and supportive local environment for both outstanding entrepreneurship and regional development (Prencipe et al 2020). While early research (Feld 2012;Isenberg 2010) was inspired by high-tech and start-up ecosystems in the United States and Israel, more recently scholars also considered regional EEs to explain entrepreneurial success in other contexts and regions (Cohen 2006;de Villiers Scheepers et al 2018;Eichelberger et al 2020). Previous EE research focused on the structural aspects of EE and the existence of certain actors (i.e., universities, venture capital firms, etc.)…”

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Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: how family firm embeddedness triggers ecosystem development

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Regional business development is driven by family firms, which are generally deeply embedded in their region, particularly in rural areas. This study explores how family entrepreneurs’ embeddedness drives an entrepreneurial ecosystem as a regional context for innovation. For this purpose, the study brings together entrepreneurship research on embeddedness and on ecosystems, and develops the entrepreneurial ecosystem embeddedness framework to better understand the connection of entrepreneurs to their local environment along three dimensions. Analyzing qualitative interviews from the hospitality context with a pattern matching approach, we highlight the role of family entrepreneurs’ (1) horizontal embeddedness in the economic and socio-political environment, their (2) vertical embeddedness in industry regimes, in particular the family, and their (3) spatial embeddedness in the region for value creation. Thereby we contribute to a differentiated understanding of how embeddedness as a social fabric relates to entrepreneurial ecosystems. The propositions of this study recommend raising awareness for managing entrepreneurs’ embeddedness along these three dimensions since unilateral engagement and a lack of coordinated embeddedness can restrict value creation.

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“…Literally, the concepts of smart tourism, smart tourism destination (smart destination), and smart tourism ecosystem are vague and sometimes confused with one another. For example, smart tourism destination was regarded as a component of smart tourism (Gretzel, Sigala et al, 2015), whereas the dynamic network in the tourism industry makes smart tourism an ecosystem (Eichelberger, Peters, Pikkemaat, & Chan, 2020). Moreover, a destination was practically considered a tourism-based ecosystem (Eichelberger et al, 2020;Gretzel, Reino et al, 2015).…”

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“…For example, smart tourism destination was regarded as a component of smart tourism (Gretzel, Sigala et al, 2015), whereas the dynamic network in the tourism industry makes smart tourism an ecosystem (Eichelberger, Peters, Pikkemaat, & Chan, 2020). Moreover, a destination was practically considered a tourism-based ecosystem (Eichelberger et al, 2020;Gretzel, Reino et al, 2015). Although the concepts of smart tourism destination, smart tourism ecosystem, and smart tourism overlap to some extent, existing opinions on smart tourism provide possibility for a well-established definition in the future.…”

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A Framework of Implications for Smart Tourism Development in Hong Kong

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2021

Journal of Smart Tourism

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Smart tourism, a promising development trend for destinations, has drawn growing attention from practitioners and academics. Extant research has laid a solid theoretical foundation on the roles of technology and effects of smart tourism on tourists. However, little is known about structured and profound implications for a destination's smart tourism development. Thus, by selecting Hong Kong as a case city, this study proposes a framework of implications for smart tourism development. A qualitative approach was employed to gain insights from smart tourism stakeholders. Results shed light on nine elements that boost the smart tourism development of destinations. These nine elements serve as a significant reference for policy-making. Several theoretical and practical implications are provided for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers.

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“…The study [11] also points out that conditions in the entrepreneurial ecosystem can help a sustainable startup, with successful entrepreneurs becoming leaders (beacons) in the ecosystem and thereby helping to shape the cultural, social, and material conditions in the ecosystem. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are most widely explored in such areas of activity as tourism [12,13,14] and hospitality [15]. It is worth noting that there are works aimed at analyzing the impact of digital technologies on the entrepreneurial networks and ecosystems development.…”

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Sustainable development of network interaction between business structures and local governments

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2021

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There is a long-term dependence of most regions on federal budget subsidies in Russia. The policy of artificial financial equalization of the regions can create a dependent mood in weak regions and deprive the incentive to develop strong regions. In the Covid-19 era, the regions of the Russian Federation must find alternative sources of financing for their projects, including entrepreneurial ones, for example, through “people`s financing” and activation of territorial development based on the crowdfunding mechanism. The main purpose of the article is to consider the prospect of using crowdfunding as a sector of the distributed economy as an alternative financial tool to develop network interaction between business structures and self-government bodies in Russia. According to the authors, the development of such practices is due to several factors: the mixed results of applying self-taxation practices in the regions of Russia; in some cases, there is opposition to this mechanism by the population; the introduction in 2020 of a regulator of crowdfunding platforms; the growing involvement of citizens in various IT platforms, including investment. Entering into this project financing scheme for both individuals, business entities, and local governments allows optimizing the economic potential of all participants in this network, and obtaining a synergistic effect from combining their resources.

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems in smart cities for tourism development: From stakeholder perceptions to regional tourism policy implications

Cited by 61 publications

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Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: how family firm embeddedness triggers ecosystem development

Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: how family firm embeddedness triggers ecosystem development

A Framework of Implications for Smart Tourism Development in Hong Kong

Sustainable development of network interaction between business structures and local governments

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