Tourism Entrepreneurship – Concepts and Issues

Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions

“…Departing from previous reviews (Ateljevic & Li, 2009;Li, 2008) we did not limit the review to tourism journals, but included publications on tourism entrepreneurship in any journal listed in the Scopus database as long as it met the selection criteria.…”

“…However, until recently, only a small proportion of articles on tourism have been related to entrepreneurship issues. Ateljevic and Li (2009) find that 2 % of articles published in leading tourism journals from 1986 to 2006 addressed entrepreneurship, amounting to 97 articles over this 20-year period, an average lower than five articles per year. The scant attention is also reflected in the limited focus on entrepreneurship in tourism journals, as only one journal has ever listed entrepreneurship as a relevant discipline in its mission statement (Cheng et al, 2011).…”

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

“…As Ateljevic and Li (2009) noted, entrepreneurship has resisted any single definition, which ultimately creates confusion in debates on the subject. In this vein, de Bruin and Dupuis (2003a) described entrepreneurship as an "activity continuum" (p. 2).…”

Motivations of tourism‐induced mobility: Tourism development and the pursuit of the Chinese dream

“…With regard to the motivations of tourism entrepreneurship, an early and extensive review identified a few key factors of entrepreneurial motivations: need for achievement, risk taking, tolerance for ambiguity, locus of control, self‐efficacy, goal setting, independence, drive, and egoistic passion (Shane, Locke, & Collins, ). Reviewing entrepreneurship studies, Ateljevic and Li () suggested that Weber's notion of charisma contributes to the theorization of entrepreneurship and that personality and intrinsic characteristics largely determine whether an entrepreneur is successful. Another study used Weber's theory to reveal that formal and substantive rationality explains the motivations, choices, and styles of agritourism entrepreneurs in the United States (McGehee & Kim, ; McGehee, ).…”