Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations

ABSTRACT This article aims to verify the reality of eco-innovations developed by global hotel chains, highlighting the innovative designs employed by these organizations, the barriers and incentives faced by these companies and motivations to invest in innovations for this purpose. This multiple cas...

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Autores principales: Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c924b456a9914c06b770d59da353582e2021-11-11T15:48:06ZEco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations1807-734Xhttps://doaj.org/article/c924b456a9914c06b770d59da353582e2016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=123047026005https://doaj.org/toc/1807-734XABSTRACT This article aims to verify the reality of eco-innovations developed by global hotel chains, highlighting the innovative designs employed by these organizations, the barriers and incentives faced by these companies and motivations to invest in innovations for this purpose. This multiple case study, of qualitative, descriptive and sectional nature used the thematic content analysis, using the NVivo® software to analyze some of the data obtained and supported on the triangulation of information to increase the reliability of the results. The data sources were empirical research, gathered through interviews and questionnaires, and documentary research. We found that the chains under study develop a large number of ecoinnovations in their companies, and most of them are end-of-pipe. In the respondents´ view, there are more barriers than incentives for the development of this type of innovation and the development is driven in large part as a mean to gain competitive advantage.Vanessa de Oliveira MenezesSieglinde Kindl da CunhaFUCAPE Business Schoolarticlekeywordsecoinnovationglobal hotel chainsinnovation designsbarriers and incentivesmotivationsBusinessHF5001-6182ENPTBBR: Brazilian Business Review, Vol 13, Iss 5, Pp 108-128 (2016)
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global hotel chains
innovation designs
barriers and incentives
motivations
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global hotel chains
innovation designs
barriers and incentives
motivations
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Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha
Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
description ABSTRACT This article aims to verify the reality of eco-innovations developed by global hotel chains, highlighting the innovative designs employed by these organizations, the barriers and incentives faced by these companies and motivations to invest in innovations for this purpose. This multiple case study, of qualitative, descriptive and sectional nature used the thematic content analysis, using the NVivo® software to analyze some of the data obtained and supported on the triangulation of information to increase the reliability of the results. The data sources were empirical research, gathered through interviews and questionnaires, and documentary research. We found that the chains under study develop a large number of ecoinnovations in their companies, and most of them are end-of-pipe. In the respondents´ view, there are more barriers than incentives for the development of this type of innovation and the development is driven in large part as a mean to gain competitive advantage.
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author Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes
Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha
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title Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
title_short Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
title_full Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
title_fullStr Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
title_full_unstemmed Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations
title_sort eco-innovation in global hotel chains: designs, barriers, incentives and motivations
publisher FUCAPE Business School
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