Agglomeration, social capital and interorganizational ambidexterity in tourist districts

Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Mercedes Úbeda-García, Patrocinio del Carmen Zaragoza-Sáez and Francisco García-Lillo

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 141, issue C, 126-136

Abstract: Knowledge is a basic factor of competitiveness with a firm’s exploration and exploitation capabilities acting as the main antecedents of innovation. However, a firm has two main options to obtain new knowledge: internal generation and external acquisition. This paper analyzes how tourism firms located in tourist districts develop ambidexterity through the combination of co-exploration and co-exploitation. Specifically, we study how the features that characterize a tourist district, such as the level of firm and institutional agglomeration, affect the development of co-exploration and co-exploitation capabilities, taking into account the mediation effect of social capital.

Keywords: Agglomeration; Interorganizational ambidexterity; Co-exploration; Co-exploitation; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.016

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