Effect of customer orientation and entrepreneurial orientation on innovativeness: Evidence from the hotel industry in Switzerland
(2010) In Tourism Management 31(2). p.221-231- Abstract
- While researchers have explored the relationship between customer orientation, entrepreneurship and innovativeness with business performance in different organizations, few such studies exist on the hotel industry. This current work investigates the potential influences of these variables on hotel industry performance. Data for this study was collected through personal questionnaires collected from 156 hotel managers and owners from German and French speaking cantons located in Switzerland in order to examine the interrelation between innovativeness, customer orientation, entrepreneurship and service business performance dimensions (i.e., profit goal achievement, sales goal achievement and ROI achievement). The findings support aspects of... (More)
- While researchers have explored the relationship between customer orientation, entrepreneurship and innovativeness with business performance in different organizations, few such studies exist on the hotel industry. This current work investigates the potential influences of these variables on hotel industry performance. Data for this study was collected through personal questionnaires collected from 156 hotel managers and owners from German and French speaking cantons located in Switzerland in order to examine the interrelation between innovativeness, customer orientation, entrepreneurship and service business performance dimensions (i.e., profit goal achievement, sales goal achievement and ROI achievement). The findings support aspects of prior research, but also provide some new insights by exploring customer orientation and innovativeness simultaneously and revealing how these factors impact upon the performance of the Swiss hotel industry. In the light of existing literature, limitations and future research directions are subsequently addressed. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/2375347
- author
- Tajeddini, Kayhan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Customer orientation, Entrepreneurship, Innovativeness, Hotel industry, Switzerland
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- Tourism Management
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 221 - 231
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:70549094148
- ISSN
- 0261-5177
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.013
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4da1637f-c637-413d-a4f1-0d95f1a349ce (old id 2375347)
- alternative location
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517709000429
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 10:18:51
- date last changed
- 2023-03-25 18:16:16
@misc{4da1637f-c637-413d-a4f1-0d95f1a349ce,
abstract = {{While researchers have explored the relationship between customer orientation, entrepreneurship and innovativeness with business performance in different organizations, few such studies exist on the hotel industry. This current work investigates the potential influences of these variables on hotel industry performance. Data for this study was collected through personal questionnaires collected from 156 hotel managers and owners from German and French speaking cantons located in Switzerland in order to examine the interrelation between innovativeness, customer orientation, entrepreneurship and service business performance dimensions (i.e., profit goal achievement, sales goal achievement and ROI achievement). The findings support aspects of prior research, but also provide some new insights by exploring customer orientation and innovativeness simultaneously and revealing how these factors impact upon the performance of the Swiss hotel industry. In the light of existing literature, limitations and future research directions are subsequently addressed.}},
author = {{Tajeddini, Kayhan}},
issn = {{0261-5177}},
keywords = {{Customer orientation; Entrepreneurship; Innovativeness; Hotel industry; Switzerland}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
pages = {{221--231}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
series = {{Tourism Management}},
title = {{Effect of customer orientation and entrepreneurial orientation on innovativeness: Evidence from the hotel industry in Switzerland}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.013}},
doi = {{10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.013}},
volume = {{31}},
year = {{2010}},
}