IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-01286701.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Inter-organisational network configurations for ski areas innovations

Author

Listed:
  • Veronique Favre-Bonté

    (IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)

  • Elodie Gardet

    (IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)

  • Catherine Thevenard-Puthod

    (IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)

Abstract

Unlike industrial innovations, service innovations cannot be protected by patents or designs. Thus, the implementation of innovation networks is often seen as a key to generate a sustainable competitive advantage. In this paper, we are interested in the main forms of inter-organizational networks that led to service innovations. More precisely, this article aims to examine the relationship between the characteristics of inter-organizational networks and the type of service innovation. A typology of service innovations and a network analysis framework allowed us to study the innovations implemented by two major French winter sports resorts: the Portes du Soleil and Paradiski. In total, we studied the structure of 12 innovation networks. Our results show that, depending on the type of innovation implemented, networks are different in terms of partners involved, regulation mode and geographic scope. However, regardless of the innovation developed, it seems necessary to have a central actor to orchestrate the various partners.

Suggested Citation

  • Veronique Favre-Bonté & Elodie Gardet & Catherine Thevenard-Puthod, 2016. "Inter-organisational network configurations for ski areas innovations," Post-Print hal-01286701, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01286701
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-01286701
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-01286701/document
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mu, Yu & Bossink, Bart & Vinig, Tsvi, 2022. "Developing a classification scheme of service innovation," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    2. Biconne, Valentina & Colombelli, Alessandra, 2024. "Needs and Barriers of Innovation and Coordination Perceived by DMOs, Trade Associations and Tourism Consortia," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 202417, University of Turin.
    3. Véronique Favre-Bonté & Elodie Gardet & Catherine Thevenard-Puthod, 2019. "How Types of Destination Influence Tourism Innovation Networks?," Post-Print hal-02145911, HAL.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Tourism; Typology; Innovation; Service; Inter-organizational network;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01286701. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.