%0 Journal Article
%T Patterns of innovation in hospitality firms: the spanish case
%A M.a Concepci車n L車pez Fern芍ndez
%A Ana M.a Serrano Bedia
%A Raquel G車mez L車pez
%J Cuadernos de Gesti車n
%D 2011
%I Instituto de Econom赤a Aplicada a la Empresa
%X The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in hospitality firms. To this end, we have use a representative sample of 443 Spanish hospitality firms (NACE-55) taken from the Third Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3), which is based on the revised version of the Oslo Manual. For the attainment of the objective of the paper we carry out, on the first place, a descriptive analysis to provide empirical evidence on a variety of aspects of innovation activities in hospitality firms. On the second place, we carry out a multivariate analysis and, in particular factor and cluster analysis to identify innovation patterns. The results confirm the existence of 5 clusters or patterns of innovation among hospitality firms that we have called "high process-innovating firms", "high product-innovating firms", "traditional process-oriented firms", "innovative low cooperated firms", and "innovative strongly cooperated firms".
%K Hospitality firms
%K innovation patterns
%K technological innovation
%K CIS-3
%U http://www.ehu.es/cuadernosdegestion/revista/index.php/en/numeros?a=da&y=2011&v=11&n=1&o=3