Destination Strategies to Enhance Secondary and Niche Tourism Products: Literature Review and Case Study

The topic of this article is enhancing destination competitiveness, with particular interest to entrepreneurial strategies able to valorise secondary and niche attractions. A literature review reveals that, by means of cooperation, local stakeholders could increase success of mass destinations, while promoting the discovery of niche attractions, with a positive impact on the whole territory. Also, the role of DMOs is important, facilitating cooperation among between private and public stakeholders and among private companies. Destination branding strategies could be set, to define the competitive advantages of a territory, leveraging on synergies among primary and secondary attractions. The specific case study of Liguria is proposed and analysed by means of a questionnaire, spread among potential tourists, so to investigate their perceptions about both the capacity of the territory to offer secondary tourism products and the existence and effectiveness of collaborative strategies among local stakeholders. This Italian region has a tourism concentrated during summertime (bathing season), but possesses other specific features, that could differentiate the offer and potentially attract tourists also in other periods. The questionnaire, in fact, reveals that many tourists also like to explore the inland, which should therefore be further promoted. It also emerges than about 9% of tourists didn’t take advantage of secondary tourism products, not being aware of them, while about 46% believe that secondary attractions could be interesting for tourism, but are not adequately exploited, due to the lack of both strategic cooperation among local businesses and direct promotion.

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Freelancing Models for Fostering Innovation and Problem Solving in Software Startups: An Empirical Comparative Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122310106 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (23) ◽

pp. 10106 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Varun Gupta ◽

Jose Maria Fernandez-Crehuet ◽

Chetna Gupta ◽

Thomas Hanne

Keyword(s):

Software Development ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

Software Development Process ◽

Model Framework ◽

Study Results ◽

Development Tasks

Context: freelancers and startups could provide each other with promising opportunities that lead to mutual growth, by improving software development metrics, such as cost, time, and quality. Niche skills processed by freelancers could help startups reduce uncertainties associated with developments and markets, with the ability to quickly address market issues (and with higher quality). This requires the associations between freelancers and startup to be long-term, based on trust, and promising agreements driven by motivations (leading to the growth of both parties). Freelancers could help startups foster innovations and undertake software development tasks in better ways than conducted in-house, if they are selected using informed decision-making. Objectives: the paper has three objectives, (1) to explore the strategies of startups to outsource software development tasks to freelancers (termed as freelancing association strategies); (2) to identify challenges in such outsourcings; and (3) to identify the impacts of outsourcing tasks to freelancers on overall project metrics. The overall objective is to understand the strategies for involving freelancers in the software development process, throughout the startup lifecycle, and the associated challenges and the impacts that help to foster innovation (to maintain competitive advantages). Method: this paper performs empirical studies through case studies of three software startups located in Italy, France, and India, followed by a survey of 54 freelancers. The results are analyzed and compared in the identification of association models, issues, challenges, and reported results arising because of such associations. The case study results are validated using members checking with the research participants, which shows a higher level of result agreements. Results: the results indicate that the freelancer association strategy is task based, panel based, or a hybrid. The associations are constrained by issues such as deciding pricing, setting deadlines, difficulty in getting good freelancers, quality issues with software artefacts, and efforts to access freelancer work submissions for reward. The associations have a positive impact on software development if there is availability of good freelancers (which lasts long for various tasks). The paper finally provides a freelancing model framework and recommends activities that could result in making the situation beneficial to both parties, and streamline such associations. Fostering innovation in startups is, thus, a trade-off situation, which is limited and supported by many conflicting parameters.

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Correlation between Technology Usage Behavior and Employee Affectivity: A Literature Review, Case Study

ACMIT Proceedings ◽

10.33555/acmit.v4i1.63 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 92-103

Author(s):

Puguh Sugeng Putranto ◽

Mohammad A. Amin Soetomo

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Positive Behavior ◽

Technology Usage ◽

Usage Behavior ◽

Working Together ◽

Common Goals ◽

A Company

When employee working in a company they are act as a single and in a group working together to achieve common goals in a organized and structured way. An employee as a human has their own considerations that can drive them to be highly effective employee. There are many researches that focus on employee engagement and employee enablement to understand the drivers that makes an employee have positive behavior that can have positive impact to the performance of the company to achieve its goal. So that the employee will enthusiast to use technology that company provide.

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Pacifying Police Units and private interests in Brazil

10.18847/1.12.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 137-153

Author(s):

Mayane Dore ◽

Gabriel Bayarri ◽

Daniel Marías

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Public Security ◽

Ethnographic Case Study ◽

Public Interests ◽

Private Companies ◽

Private Interests ◽

Brazilian State ◽

Private Investments ◽

Private And Public

This article analyzes a concrete policy in the framework of Brazilian Public Security: the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). It describes this policy and justifies, through an ethnographic case study, how the so-called “pacification of the favelas” articulates a logic of neoliberal urbanism and police infrastructure, understanding the residents of the favelas as potential consumers of their services. The article contextualizes the UPPs model as a paradigmatic case of public security in Latin America in which the discourse of violence/pacification is the main catalyst for private investments. More specifically, the article demonstrates how private companies resort to proximity conflicts mediation as a way of avoiding the judicialization of conflicts with the residents after the “Pacification”. With this case, we expect to illustrate the patrimonialism and clientelism that shapes the Brazilian State and its ambiguous relationships between private and public interests.

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UNDERSTANDING CRITICAL VARIABLES CONTRIBUTING TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF INTERNATIONAL HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY CONTRACTORS

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management ◽

10.3846/jcem.2019.8427 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 184-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Yanliang Niu ◽

Xiaopeng Deng ◽

Limao Zhang ◽

Xiaochen Duan

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Literature Review ◽

Marketing Strategy ◽

High Speed ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

High Speed Railway ◽

Management Capability

This article is devoted to identifying and explaining the critical variables contributing to competitive advantages in international High-Speed Railway (HSR) projects from the contractor’s perspective. A total of 24 variables were identified by the literature review and a pilot study. An international questionnaire survey was performed to obtain professional opinions from both practitioners and the academy. The 24 variables were ranked and clustered into 6 factors using exploratory factor analysis. Furthermore, a case study of the Early Train Operator project of the California HSR was carried out by the survey, interview, and first-hand data. The results indicated that the top six ranked variables are (1) None Accident History, (2) Eligibility & International Criteria, (3) Contract Reputation, (4) Marketing Strategy, (5) Risk Management Capability, and (6) Technical Responsiveness. Furthermore, the 24 variables are grouped into six dimensions: Glocalization, Marketing, Safety, Economics, Technology, and Responsibility. The case study indicated that the factor framework was suitable and tractable for the application. The findings of this paper could (1) assist international HSR contractors in obtaining a better understanding of the deeper determinates of competitive advantages and (2) serve as a valuable reference for developing their competitive advantages in the international HSR market.

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Creative Management, Technology and the BBC

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology - Technology for Creativity and Innovation ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-519-3.ch014 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 285-301 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicholas Nicoli

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Technology Use ◽

Management Practices ◽

Management Tool ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Management Technology

The past decade has witnessed increased attempts by managers, scholars and policy-makers to stimulate the creativity of organisations. The practice of stimulating organisational creativity has led to a paradigm shift known as creative management, the focus of which is to use these practices to achieve competitive advantages. Such creative stimulation can come in a variety of forms. These include identifying and influencing environmental conditions that can increase the chances for creating new and significant products or services. In order to stimulate creativity, current creative management literature proposes the use of technology as a disseminator of knowledge and ideas. This chapter offers a literature review of creative management and technology use for creativity. It next introduces a case study of how technology is used as a creative management tool at the BBC. The findings of the study indicate that although the BBC’s yearly revenues are under sustained pressure, the organisation has invested heavily in technology in order to maintain its high creative standing. In conclusion, supported by the findings of the case study, this chapter corroborates and further advocates the use of technology as a significant component of creative management practices.

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Cooperation, Proximity, and Social Innovation: Three Ingredients for Industrial Medium-Sized Towns’ Renewal?

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci4020015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 15 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marjolaine Gros-Balthazard ◽

Magali Talandier

Keyword(s):

Public Services ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Quantitative Approach ◽

Economic Dynamics ◽

Political Processes ◽

Shoe Industry ◽

European Public ◽

Local Stakeholders ◽

Private And Public

Over several decades, medium-sized industrial towns have suffered from a combination of economic and political processes: Deindustrialization, metropolization, and withdrawal of public services. After two decades in which they have been somewhat neglected (in favor of metropolises), there have recently been State and European public policies aimed at them. Medium-sized cities are not homogeneous and present several trajectories. Based on quantitative approach in France, we highlight the very diverse socio-economic dynamics of French medium-sized industrial towns. Thus, far from widespread decline or shrinking dynamics, some of these cities are experiencing an economic rebound. This is the case of Romans-sur-Isère, a medium-sized town located in the south-east of France. Focusing our qualitative analyze on this city, we try to understand this type of process. In this medium-sized town, former capital of the shoe industry, local stakeholders, private, and public try to support a productive renewal. The results of our case study highlight the role that cooperation, spatial and organizational proximity, and social innovation could play in the renewal of productive economy in medium-sized industrial towns. Even if the economic situation remains difficult for many medium-sized cities in France as in Europe, we argue that they could have a productive future making and ultimately take advantages of their “medium-sized” attributes.

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Open Innovation as a Strategy to Sustainably Compete in the Textile Industry

Financial Management and Risk Analysis Strategies for Business Sustainability - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7634-2.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146-172

Author(s):

Sara Santos ◽

Teresa Dieguez

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Literature Review ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Textile Industry ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

A Company

Innovation is crucial for business in order to meet consumers' needs and stakeholders' expectations. Innovation emerges as a must for all activity sectors, including the textile industry. Change can be an opportunity for organizations that present competitive advantages and new solutions. However, not all changes are directly visible, and innovation by nature is impossible to quantify and measure. This intangibility requires tools to help managers monitor the results of their investment. The present study applies the Innovation Scoring 1.0, a Portuguese tool for companies to self-evaluate in what concerns innovation, efficiency, and profitability improvement. It is structured in three main sections: literature review, case study, and conclusions. The study showed that a company may improve its results through open innovation, being leadership, and organizational culture determinants in the process.

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“Being brave”

Journal of Integrated Care ◽

10.1108/jica-06-2016-0021 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 201-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Catherine Mangan ◽

Mark Pietroni ◽

Denise Porter

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

Social Care ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Peer Review Process ◽

Content Type ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Local Stakeholders ◽

Inappropriate Admissions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the use of an innovative peer review approach to identifying and addressing the causes of inappropriate admissions from hospital to nursing homes in South Gloucestershire (SG). It explains the methodology that was developed, the findings of the peer review process and reflects on the effectiveness of the process. Design/methodology/approach – The peer review consisted of two stages. The first stage involved a panel of local stakeholders carrying out an audit of a random selection of cases where people had been assessed as needing permanent nursing or residential care. From this four cases of inappropriate admissions were identified. Stage two involved an externally facilitated process with two peer challenge panels; one of local stakeholders and the other external experts. The two panels analysed the cases of inappropriate admissions, identified the system causes and suggested actions to tackle the issues which were fed back to an audience of local stakeholders. Findings – The combination of case audit and peer review was successful in providing robust challenge to the processes in SG by identifying shortcomings in the system and suggesting actions to improve outcomes. Research limitations/implications – The approach was taken in one Council area and therefore may not be replicable in another area. Practical implications – The case study suggests that a peer review approach using both local and external peers, including providers, is an effective way to identify weaknesses in the health and social care processes. The insights offered by external peers and providers is helpful for councils in identifying where to focus resources and suggests that other areas should consider proactive adaptations to the peer review methodology that is offered as part of the LGA’s programme of sector-led improvement. Social implications – The case study suggests that a peer review approach could have a positive impact on the quality of care and quality of life for older people who are admitted to hospital. Originality/value – The case study offers an innovative and original use of the peer review approach in social care that can be shared with other councils and partners. The Southwest Improvement Board have identified it as of particular interest to other areas seeking to work with partners to identify and implement positive change.

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