Type of diversification and firm resources: new empirical evidence from the Spanish tourism industry
✍ Scribed by Rosario Andreu; Enrique Claver; Diego Quer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 87 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1099-2340
- DOI
- 10.1002/jtr.684
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This paper analyses the diversification strategies followed by tourism firms from the perspective of the resource‐based view. More specifically, it seeks to verify whether the composition of the firms' resources has a bearing on the decision to undertake one type of diversification or another (related or unrelated). From a mail survey to 80 Spanish tourism firms, we identified 94 entries into new business areas. We applied an ordered logit regression and have statistically confirmed that intangible resources lead to a more related type of diversification. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.