Organizational innovation in hotel companies

Abstract

Innovation is a clearly tool to be competitive, even in the tourism sector. Moreover, developing organizational innovativeness is important to achieve a great degree of innovation. The purpose of this paper is to identify some factors, which have relevant effects on organizational innovativeness development in tourism business, in particular in hotel sector. This paper is based on several studies related to organizational innovation. For that, this study investigates innovation, organizational innovation and its antecedents. Also, some organizational innovation antecedents are analysed to extract results. To do the empirical study, a database that has information of Spanish hotel firms, was used. This study used that database to extract results, discuss them and draw conclusions. Research limitations/implications - The empirical study is limited to the available database. This database collects information about some organizational innovation antecedents. In addition, that database collects information only from hotel companies. Therefore, the results show the situation of hotel companies.