Increasing sustainable tourism through social entrepreneurship

Lange, Deborah de; Dodds, Rachel

doi:10.1108/ijchm-02-2016-0096

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“…The findings show that the relationships between TISP, CITF, TI, EC and TMS with SPA were shown to have both positive and statistically significant. The results are aligned with previous studies (Al-Qirim and Corbitt, 2002; De Lange and Dodds, 2017; López et al , 2018). Additionally, the results also indicate that both TISP and CITF are the most significant determinant that positively impacts on SPA of tourism accommodation firms followed by TI, EC and TMS.…”

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Assessing the adoption of sustainability practices in tourism industry

Islam

Zhang

Hasan

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the key determinants of sustainability practices and policy adoption in small- and medium-sized tourism accommodation firms and its possible impact on the firm’s competitive advantages. Design/methodology/approach A combined model has been developed and tested with a set of relevant hypotheses based on primary data collected from tourism firm’s owners and personnel. Structural equation modeling has been used to test and validate the hypotheses. Findings The key results indicate that collaboration and innovation of tourism firms, employee culture, technological infrastructure, tourism intermediary’s sustainability practices and top management support have a significant impact on sustainability practices adoption, whereas government sustainable tourism policy and local’s attitude toward sustainability have an insignificant impact. Practical implications The findings assist managers and owners of tourism accommodation firms to re-address their policy and operational processes toward sustainability. This study is an endeavor to bridge the knowledge gap of current literature on sustainable practice adoption and tourism accommodation firm. This would be ensured through encouraging the economic aspect of sustainability practices and also facilitate social well-being, which is a real contribution that ought to practice to other countries where the tourist area is environmentally adverse tremendous. Social implications Considering sustainability is a social commitment, this study positively changes tourists’ behavioral approach reducing the undesirable use of social resources and maximizing the enduring socio-economic and environmental development for social well-being. Originality/value The novelty of this empirical study is that sustainability practices and policies adoption is entirely a new phenomenon. However, the mediating impact of the construct on the competitive advantage of small and medium tourism accommodation firms enhances the effectiveness of emerging tourism economy.

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confidence: 91%

Assessing the adoption of sustainability practices in tourism industry

Islam

Zhang

Hasan

2019

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“…In arguing the importance of social entrepreneurship in enabling more entrepreneurial strategy making for sustainable small firms, de Lange and Dodds (2017) point to aspects of social entrepreneurship such as creativity, novelty and risk orientation as significant. McAreavey and McDonagh (2011) suggest the importance of social enterprise as a means of better aligning and developing rural tourism resources in an entrepreneurial strategy making with a purpose of ecological sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From this perspective strategy making, instead of becoming entrepreneurial, may simple be temporarily challenged by a new perspective, which fades with time. More recently, de Lange and Dodds (2017) argue that sustainability outcomes emerge from social entrepreneurship in tourism, with greater understanding of sustainability enabling more dynamic and creative strategy making.…”

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Entrepreneurial strategy making in tourism organisations: a systematic review and future research agenda

Kearney¹,

Harrington

Rajwani

2020

IJEBR

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PurposeUsing a state of the art CIMO literature review the paper develops a framework of the relationship between strategy making in the small tourism firm context and four performance outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the CIMO literature review method, adapted from the wider management literature to structure and integrate the existing fragmented literature base.FindingsPremised on the literature review, a framework of the relationship between strategy making and firm performance in context is posited. Emerging from a dominant owner/manager in a deeply embedded context strategy making influences firm performance across four dimensions. The influence is dynamic, continually subject to modification in a changing environment often mediated through emerging technology.Research limitations/implicationsThe CIMO method provides an integrated framework of the relationship between strategy making and small firm performance in context hence overcoming limitations of the fragmented nature of the research landscape. Emerging from the review key future research trajectories is posited.Practical implicationsWhile highlighting the relationship between strategy making and performance, the proposed framework implies owner/managers play the key role in strategy making with opportunities and challenges in modifying existing strategy making emerging from owner/manager embeddedness. Opportunities for improved policy interventions are posited.Originality/valueThe paper applies the systematic review to the relationship between strategy making and the small tourism firm.

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“…Sustainable tourism development can be promoted and stimulated by developing specific environmental and tourism-management policies (Buckley, 2012;Butler, 1999;Ritchie & Crouch, 2003;Martin-Rios, 2019;Droj et al, 2020;Ilies et al, 2012). Moreover, attitudes, subjective norms, and personal norms or social involvement can also be used to promote sustainable tourism development (de Lange & Dodds, 2017).…”

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Do Economic Growth and Environment Quality Contribute to Tourism Development in Eu Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Bădulescu

Simuț

Meşter

et al. 2021

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The positive impact of the tourism industry on economic growth, revenues, infrastructure, employment, social inclusion and poverty reduction, although widely recognised, has been lately weighted against the appearance and exacerbation of several problems, such as: environmental footprint, increase of income inequality, cost increases related to solid waste collection, energy consumption, increased global CO2 emissions. On the other hand, the tourism sector is not just an active economic, societal, or environmental change agent; in turn, the tourism sector supports or is highly influenced by various factors, such as climate change, economic, political, or social factors. More recently, this industry has been highly impacted by the pandemic, technological developments and cultural trends. In this article we examined both the short and long-run relationship between tourism development and economic growth, CO2 emissions and energy consumption in European Union member states (EU27), by using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model for panel data. The findings suggest that economic growth and energy consumption have a statistically significant impact on the tourism index both in the short and long-run, whereas CO2 emissions only have a significant impact upon the tourism index on the long run.

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Increasing sustainable tourism through social entrepreneurship

Cited by 68 publications

References 64 publications

Assessing the adoption of sustainability practices in tourism industry

Assessing the adoption of sustainability practices in tourism industry

Entrepreneurial strategy making in tourism organisations: a systematic review and future research agenda

Do Economic Growth and Environment Quality Contribute to Tourism Development in Eu Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

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