Innovation, uncertainty, and inter-firm shortcut ties in a tourism destination context

Jarle Aarstad, Håvard Ness and Sven A. Haugland

Tourism Management, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 354-361

Abstract: Efficient inter-firm coproduction in the tourism industry can bear a resemblance to the concept of small-worlds, typically characterized by pockets of local clusters and shortcut ties that connect and decrease path-length between clustered network members. In this paper we analyze survey and inter-firm network data across several winter destinations, finding that innovating firms can reduce path-length, but uncertainty is a necessary catalyst for this process to take place.

Keywords: Destination; Innovation; Inter-firm networks; Path-length; Shortcut ties; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.12.005

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