Related Variety and Innovation: Evidence from the Tourism Industry
| Autor: | Hilal Erkuş-Öztürk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Tourist industry 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Significant difference 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Method of analysis Investment (macroeconomics) Variety (cybernetics) Economy 0502 economics and business Economics Economic geography Dimension (data warehouse) 050203 business & management Tourism |
| Zdroj: | Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. 109:256-273 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9663 0040-747X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tesg.12275 |
| Popis: | Evolutionary economic geography literature claims that firms with ‘related variety relations’ are more innovative than firms with only intra-industry relations and relations of ‘unrelated variety’. This paper aims to explore this claim for tourism companies in Antalya. The main question is whether innovative hotels, restaurants, and tourism-oriented shops have stronger relations with firms of different but related sectors than with firms of the same sector and firms of different but unrelated sectors. This paper differs from previous research: (i) by bringing a tourism dimension to evolutionary economic geography literature and (ii) by employing a quantitative method of analysis (correspondence and chi-square) based on a firm-level survey. The findings show a significant difference in the relationship between company innovations and the two proxies for related variety, unrelated variety and intra-industry relations, namely investment behaviour and recruitment of personnel. |
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