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CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of JITT: Disruptive
Innovations
Guest editors: Giampaolo Viglia, Hannes Werthner and
Dimitrios Buhalis
The diffusion of disrupting innovations has generated
significant market changes, modifying the dominant logic. This
structural change is affecting the organizational networks and
the services tourism players are supposed to use to perform well
in markets (and be efficient).
This disruptive change affects the whole tourism and
hospitality industry: relationships between players change as
their respective roles change; this is driven by e-commerce /
e-business and disruptive innovation. For instance hotels,
thanks to e-business technological platforms, can now use
algorithms to set yield and revenue management strategies,
monitor competition in real time and allow consumers to use
mobile devices to access several services.
In the tourism industry, many innovations have been initiated
from companies in the information technology sector. Generally,
Information technology is revolutionizing products, services and
markets.
The aim of this Special Issue is to promote new theoretical
and empirical research on disruptive innovation for tourism,
understanding how and why the changes happened (theory
building), as well as providing cases for the respective
arguments.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The major topics of interest focus on disruptive innovation
and their role within the Tourism experience and industry. They
include but are not limited to:
- Structural changes to the industry (e.g.:
dematerialization, smartness, new forms of accommodations,
disruptive technologies, mobile, etc.)
- New market structures and network relations as well as new
roles of tourism players
- Diffusion issues
- Operators’ challenges (e.g.: forecasting the future demand,
aggregations, smart statistics to support change, identifying
competitor set)
- Incremental innovation versus disruptive innovation (e.g.,
going beyond traditional business, traditional markets exploring
not well understood problems)
- How smart and connected Products are transforming
competition
- Contextual issues (sectorial differences as well as
regional differences; competition vs oligopoly)
SUBMISSION
Papers are required no later than June 30th 2016
Notification of outcome will be provided by August 30th 2016
Final papers should be submitted by October 15th 2016
Please submit manuscripts through the Springer online system
(if you are a new author to the system you will be required to
create a system login).
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described
has not been published before; that it is not under
consideration for publication anywhere else; that its
publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well
as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at
the institute where the work has been carried out.
The publisher will not be held legally responsible should
there be any claims for compensation.
The journal imposes no hard limits on the paper length as
long as what authors write is important. Submissions that exceed
40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and
references) should however be accompanied by a short
justification as to why a briefer discussion of their research
results.
Any questions related to this special issue should be
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