“To Get Things Done”: A Relational Approach to Entrepreneurship

Jóhannesson, Gunnar Þór

doi:10.1080/15022250.2012.695463

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“…According to this view, innovation is fundamentally a social, interrelated, interdependent and collective process. The understanding of innovation in tourism as a collective process is reflected in the growing number of publications that are framed within a system or network approach (See, for example, Arnaboldi & Spiller, 2011;Bertella, 2011a;Hjalager, 2009;Johannesson, 2012;Larson, 2009;Lemmetyinen, 2009). …”

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Knowledge Acquisition and Assimilation in Tourism-Innovation Processes

Hoarau

2014

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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The paper develops a framework and an understanding of the external knowledge absorption in nature-based tourism companies. The concept of potential absorptive capacity is the starting point for exploring how external knowledge (tacit and explicit) is absorbed and assimilated in tourism innovation processes. Although knowledge is the engine that drives innovation, tourism firms can have problems and challenges when trying to absorb external knowledge for innovation. The main challenge is to access and absorb tacit knowledge. This type of knowledge is personal and sticky and therefore difficult to acquire and assimilate into the existing knowledge pool of organizations. Tacit knowledge is also difficult to imitate and is 2 therefore important for developing original and competitive innovations. In this study, knowledge acquisition and assimilation processes and how knowledge challenges are handled are investigated by adopting a multiple, qualitative case-study strategy that focuses on three Icelandic whale-watching firms. This study contributes to the tourism innovation discussion by identifying tourism specific abilities for the acquisition and assimilation of knowledge. The sense-making and strategic interpretation of this knowledge are considered to be important subsequent steps in the innovation process.

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“…This recognition is reflected in the growing number of empirical studies (Bertella, 2011a;Bertella, 2011;Bertella, 2011b;Camisón & Monfort-Mir, 2012;Johannesson, 2012;Racherla et al, 2008;Weidenfeld et al, 2010) that address the role of knowledge in tourism innovation processes in one way or another.…”

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Knowledge Acquisition and Assimilation in Tourism-Innovation Processes

Hoarau

2014

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…The topics covered in recent volumes of the present journal illustrate this breadth, as they examine entrepreneurs as a type of tourist guide (Bryon, 2012), strategic entrepreneurship related changes in existing firms (Carlbäck, 2012), and the importance of entrepreneurship at the regional level (Jóhannesson, 2012;Viken & Aarsaether, 2013). Such variety illustrates the large number of areas of tourism in which entrepreneurship is relevant, but given the low number of studies in total, it may also result in low levels of accumulated knowledge.…”

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“…Andreu, Claver, & Quer, 2009;Denicolai et al, 2010; or theories from economic geography such as actor-network theory (e.g. Jóhannesson, 2012) theoretical perspectives which are also commonly used within mainstream entrepreneurship research. Other perspectives related to the entrepreneurship literature, such as the concept of entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial goals, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial learning and creative destruction, are used and tested in several different contexts (Crick, 2011;Fan, Wall, & Mitchell, 2008;Mitchell & de Waal, 2009;Arch G Woodside, 2006).…”

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Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions

Solvoll

Alsos

Bulanova

2015

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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“…The use of ANT thinking is increasingly evident in tourism research [62], and related academic publication in this field [63,64] shows a focus on the development of the tourism industry ontology, where it has been used to explore relational concepts, such as Tourismscapes [65], cultural tourism areas [66], the wildlife tourism focusing on the role of non-human actors [53], tourism academic research [67,68], the mechanisms of tourism entrepreneurship and innovation [69][70][71] and the generation of destination perception [72,73]. When applied to tourism research, ANT better reveals the relationship between tourism and local development [74][75][76].…”

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Livestock Animal Displacement on Rural Tourism Destinations: Placing Livestock's “Pest” Role in the Background

Guorong

Zhang

2017

Sustainability

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Rural tourism is becoming increasingly embedded in the livestock animal management in rural areas. Drawing on a multi-methods approach, this exploratory research shows how to construct the livestock animal displacement actor-networks. As is found, human actors (local governments, tourists, and local residents), non-human animal (livestock) and quasi-object (human dwellings) construct an interaction network in a structured way. The critical action route of livestock animal displacement demonstrated in this research is aimed to improve residents' participation willingness and further to change the local livestock feeding model and traditional dwelling by rural environment governance and rural tourism landscape consumption. Through the process of translation, problematization, interest, enrollment, mobilization and opposition, the livestock displacement actor-networks were constructed to build a heterogeneous network of the local government, tourists, local residents, livestock and human dwelling. The ultimate goal is to change the traditional human dwelling to a dis-dwelling; the most important thing is to promote residents' participation willingness in the livestock displacement actor-networks. This article attempts to perform compelling exploratory research to elucidate the livestock displacement actor-networks in hope to provide a meaningful contribution to the epistemology and methodology of livestock management on rural tourism destination and open a new path for research on rural livestock-human relations.

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“To Get Things Done”: A Relational Approach to Entrepreneurship

Cited by 36 publications

References 48 publications

Knowledge Acquisition and Assimilation in Tourism-Innovation Processes

Knowledge Acquisition and Assimilation in Tourism-Innovation Processes

Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions

Livestock Animal Displacement on Rural Tourism Destinations: Placing Livestock's “Pest” Role in the Background

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