Public management of digitalization into the Spanish tourism services: a heterodox analysis

Antonio Sánchez-Bayón (), F. Javier Sastre () and Luis Isasi Sánchez ()
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Antonio Sánchez-Bayón: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
F. Javier Sastre: ESIC Business & Marketing School
Luis Isasi Sánchez: University Carlos III-UC3

Review of Managerial Science, 2025, vol. 19, issue 7, No 12, 2235-2253

Abstract: Abstract This study is a critical review of public intervention and its management of change with digitalization, applied to Spanish tourism services, as ones of the largest case and most required of attention into the European Union. In comparison with other mainstream papers, this heterodox review is based on the combination of Austrian Economics and Neo-Institutional approaches (Cornucopists), with their common theoretical and methodological frameworks. Thus, it is possible to analyze failures and paradoxes in the public intervention, especially with post-COVID recovery policies. The case of the Spanish tourism sector highlights the effect of double bureaucracy, from European institutions and the Spanish Government, affecting its competitiveness and revealing the confirmation of heterodox theorems. Faced with mainstream public intervention guidelines, which usually involve expansive spending and more debt (and New-Malthusian measures), a heterodox mainline solution is offered here, based on the revival of the original sustainability principle, the readjustment effect and the promotion of geek'n'talent education, to facilitate the transition to the Knowledge Economy, where the tourism sector is capable of offering personalized travel experiences due to digitalization.

Keywords: Tourism services; Public management & economics; Next Gen EU; Digitalization; Heterodox approaches; Cornucopists & New-Malthusians; Knowledge Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B53 D78 H11 I38 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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