Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Spheres of Inter-Firm Relations

Mottiar, Ziene

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“…What is perhaps the most interesting common factor found to hold true across economies was a conscious rejection, or disentangling (Mottiar 2007), by LOST firms of conventional economic business models justified on the basis of standard performance indicators, such as employment growth, profit maximization, and market orientation. LOST firm operators appear to recognize the strategic value of, for example:…”

Section: Achievement Of a Desired Lifestyle And A Bridge Tomentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In particular, they emphasize the importance of lifestyle motives within tourism entrepreneurship as being a significant feature of small firms in this sector. Other authors have added weight to the call for greater research and understanding relative to the centrality of lifestyle as a distinguishing feature of small tourism firms (for example, Page et al 1999;Morrison et al 1999;Ateljevic and Doorne 2000;Ioannides and Petersen 2003;Getz et al 2004;Thomas 2004;Weber 2006;Mottiar 2007). …”

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confidence: 97%

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Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism Firms

Carlsen¹,

Morrison²,

Weber³

2008

Tourism Recreation Research

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Small tourism firms in attractive tourism destinations are often generically described as 'lifestyle' oriented. A discourse on what the prefix 'lifestyle' means, when attached to small tourism firms in different economic and social contexts has been developing for a decade now, reaching a point of complexity and contradiction. In order to explore this ubiquitous, yet nebulous term, the relevant literature and associated discourse is reviewed with the aim of understanding the motives, meanings, values and contexts of these lifestyle oriented small tourism (LOST) firms. It is concluded that there are many deficiencies in both the conceptualization as well as the content of current research in this increasingly important area. A multi-disciplinary and systemic model for understanding the interactions and interdependencies of the different dimensions of LOST firms is presented.

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Section: Achievement Of a Desired Lifestyle And A Bridge Tomentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism Firms

Carlsen¹,

Morrison²,

Weber³

2008

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Besides these, scholars linked other issues with a lifestyle orientation, such as the role of innovation (Ioannides and Petersen, 2003), or inter-firm relations (Mottiar, 2007). This paper considers those as outcomes of entrepreneurial orientation and, as such, they will not be analysed.…”

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“…Twenty years after their study small tourism and hospitality firms are often generically described as lifestyle enterprises (for example, Ateljevic and Doorne, 2000;Getz and Petersen, 2005;Ioannides and Petersen, 2003;Lashley and Rowson, 2010;Morrison et al, 2001;Mottiar, 2007;Shaw and Williams, 2004). These studies revealed numerous characteristics associated with lifestyle entrepreneurs including: non existence of management strategies and limited return-on-investment based strategies (Morrison, et al, 2001); lack of involvement in formal organisations (Mottiar, 2007); low education and training, and the lack of skills (Lashley and Rowson, 2010); limited innovative strategies (Ioannides and Petersen, 2003); and entry is often related with a lifestyle choice, such as to move to certain place or 'to be my own boss ' (Getz and Petersen, 2005). Nevertheless, the majority of those studies were conducted within the context of western developed economies, with a paucity of studies focusing on transition and developing countries (Morrison, et al, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptions of Tourism Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Transition Economy Context

Škokić

Morrison

2011

Tourism Planning & Development

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Lifestyle, non-economic motives have been recognised as a significant motivational factor for tourism and hospitality entrepreneurs. However, knowledge on the subject is mainly drawn from the perspective of western developed economies, with a paucity of studies focusing on transition and developing countries. The purpose of the paper is to investigate tourism entrepreneurship within the former socialist countries, particularly focusing on Croatia. The study is based on in-depth interviews with tourism entrepreneurs in the Splitsko-dalmatinska county. The paper argues that understanding of entrepreneurship can be enhanced if theories are contextualised within a specific setting and industry sector and thus applies Morrison's (2006) 'drilling down' model in investigating tourism entrepreneurship. The results reveal a non-existence of lifestyle entrepreneurs and a conceptual model is developed to encapsulate the complex range of factors which underpin the different behaviour of the analysed entrepreneurs. Implications for entrepreneurship theory and further research are discussed.

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“…Lifestyle entrepreneurs set up businesses in order to maintain a comfortable and exiting lifestyle [34,35]. They are often driven by non-monetary incentives such as tax benefits, personal standards, and independence.…”

Section: Lifestyle Entrepreneursmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial Motives and Challenges of SMEs Owners in Emerging Economies: Nigeria & South Africa

Akinyemi¹,

Adejumo²

2017

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This paper is a comparative analysis of the peculiarities of entrepreneurial motives and challenges that exist in emerging economies. The paper also emphasizes the fact that knowing what entrepreneurs are up against would get them prepared and inexorably minimize the effects of the challenges. Research findings show that entrepreneurs set up business ventures basically for various reasons, and individuals become entrepreneurs primarily due to pull, than push factors. 1200 samples were purposively drawn from two African emerging economies. Pre-tested questionnaires were administered among entrepreneurs in the economic hub to both economies. The analysis was done using descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance. The research findings show that a greater proportion of the entrepreneurs in both economies were driven by passion and very few were poverty driven. The results also show that entrepreneurial challenges are typical of every emerging economy but vary in certain cases. Furthermore, the results show that there is a significant difference in the average income level and the number of years in business (F=7.60; p<0.05), whereas in South Africa, there is no significant difference in average income level and the number of years in business (F=1.41; p>0.05). The study concludes that the challenges such as epileptic power supply, lack of finance, and low patronage would continually hamper entrepreneurial activities and inexorably increase the failure rates of entrepreneurship in these economies if the challenges persist.

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Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Spheres of Inter-Firm Relations

Cited by 44 publications

References 24 publications

Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism Firms

Lifestyle Oriented Small Tourism Firms

Conceptions of Tourism Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Transition Economy Context

Entrepreneurial Motives and Challenges of SMEs Owners in Emerging Economies: Nigeria & South Africa

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