Gui Lohmann and Renan Peres de Oliveira
Tourism is integral to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and is closely linked to air transport. This paper aims to explore their relationship…
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Purpose
Tourism is integral to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and is closely linked to air transport. This paper aims to explore their relationship, emphasising impacts on accessibility, connectivity and collaborative efforts between airlines, destination management organisations and stakeholders. Improved air transport contributes to tourism-led growth, economic development, job creation and cultural exchange. However, environmental challenges prompt innovation with cleaner technologies and sustainable aviation fuels.
Design/methodology/approach
Opinion piece.
Findings
Linking aviation and tourism to the UN SDGs, the paper showcases contributions done to date to environmental, social and economic aspects. The paper suggests a focused strategy for aviation to align more closely with the UN SDGs. Actions such as exploring alternative fuels, prioritising energy-efficient aircraft, addressing local impacts and fostering global collaboration are crucial in addressing gender disparities for a more inclusive future.
Originality/value
This piece examines air transport developments from 1946 to 2020, revealing transformative periods marked by regulatory agreements, technological advancements and sustainability initiatives. The paper also addresses COVID-19 impacts, highlighting vulnerabilities, resilience and lessons for adaptability and sustainability.
目的
旅游业是联合国可持续发展目标的组成部分, 与航空运输密切相关。本文探讨了它们之间的关系, 强调了对航空公司、目的地管理组织 (DMO) 和利益相关者之间的可达性、连通性和协作的影响。改善航空运输有助于旅游业主导的增长、经济发展、创造就业机会和文化交流。然而, 环境挑战促使清洁技术和可持续航空燃料的创新。
设计/方法论/途径
观点文章。
结果
该文章将航空和旅游业与联合国可持续发展目标联系起来, 展示了迄今为止在环境、社会和经济方面所做的贡献。该文章提出了一项有针对性的航空战略, 从而更紧密地配合联合国可持续发展目标。探索替代燃料、优先考虑节能飞机、解决当地影响和促进全球合作等行动对于解决性别差异、创造更具包容性的未来至关重要。
原创性/价值
本文探讨了 1946 年至 2020 年航空运输的发展, 揭示了以监管协议、技术进步和可持续发展举措为标志的变革时期。该文章还讨论了 COVID-19 的影响, 强调了脆弱性、复原力以及适应性和可持续性的经验教训。
Objetivo
El turismo forma parte integral de los ODS de la ONU y está estrechamente vinculado al transporte aéreo. Este documento explora su relación, haciendo hincapié en las repercusiones sobre la accesibilidad, la conectividad y los esfuerzos de colaboración entre las aerolíneas, las organizaciones de gestión de destinos (DMOs) y las partes interesadas. La mejora del transporte aéreo contribuye al crecimiento impulsado por el turismo, al desarrollo económico, a la creación de empleo y al intercambio cultural. Sin embargo, los retos medioambientales impulsan la innovación con tecnologías más limpias y combustibles de aviación sostenibles.
Diseño/metodología/enfoque
Artículo de opinión.
Resultados
Al vincular la aviación y el turismo con los ODS de la ONU, el artículo muestra las contribuciones realizadas hasta la fecha a los aspectos medioambientales, sociales y económicos. El documento sugiere una estrategia centrada para que la aviación se alinee más estrechamente con los ODS de la ONU. Acciones como explorar combustibles alternativos, priorizar aeronaves energéticamente eficientes, abordar los impactos locales y fomentar la colaboración global son cruciales, así como abordar las disparidades de género para un futuro más inclusivo.
Originalidad/valor
Este artículo examina la evolución del transporte aéreo desde 1946 hasta 2020, revelando periodos transformadores marcados por acuerdos normativos, avances tecnológicos e iniciativas de sostenibilidad. El artículo también aborda los impactos del COVID-19, destacando las vulnerabilidades, la resistencia y las lecciones para la adaptabilidad y la sostenibilidad.
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Sanaz Vatankhah, Vahideh Bamshad, Gui Lohmann and Belal Shneikat
This paper explores the intricate interdependencies among core components of airline business models (BMs). In the airline industry, where BMs are complex systems, a successful BM…
Abstract
Purpose
This paper explores the intricate interdependencies among core components of airline business models (BMs). In the airline industry, where BMs are complex systems, a successful BM requires an orchestrated configuration of various components. However, there is a paucity of research in BM literature pertaining to the interrelationships among key components of airline BMs.
Design/methodology/approach
Employing interpretive structural modelling, we gathered input from experts in Iran to assess the driving power and dependency of elements within airline BMs.
Findings
Our findings highlight the significance of operating environment conditions and competitive market dynamics as pivotal external components shaping the foundational structure. Value proposition, customer relationship management, and process monitoring are crucial linkage components that drive power and dependency. Notably, capturing value is positioned with the highest dependency.
Practical implications
We utilised the ISM technique to visualize interdependencies within airline business models, aiding strategic decision-making. Our findings suggest aligning business and operational strategies with market needs ensures effective value creation and capture, maintaining competitive advantage in the airline industry. In addition, our research reveals critical factors affecting value creation and capture, emphasising monitoring the operating environment and competitive market, and strategically managing value propositions and customer relationship initiatives in the airline industry. We advise adapting business models to external changes for sustained growth and recommend regular monitoring of industry trends and customer expectations.
Originality/value
Framed within complexity theory, these insights offer valuable perspectives on identifying and situating critical BM components in the airline industry. The practical implications derived from this study serve as strategic tools for airline managers and potential investors to optimise the design of their airline BMs.
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Qian Zhou, Shuxiang Wang, Liya Wang and Wei Xu
Open innovation platform has become an effective field through which enterprises can acquire valuable knowledge for incremental and breakthrough innovation. However, as more…
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Purpose
Open innovation platform has become an effective field through which enterprises can acquire valuable knowledge for incremental and breakthrough innovation. However, as more entities join the innovation platform, the knowledge activities in the platform ecosystem are now facing higher complexity and vulnerability due to the differences in the knowledge demands as well as conflicting interest claims of participants. The lack of mature governance mechanisms has caused opportunistic behaviors like knowledge infringement, leakage and hiding, which seriously hinder the in-depth knowledge sharing and effective utilization. What’s more, the enthusiasm for collaborative innovation also reduced among multi-subjects. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to improve platform participants’ innovation ambidexterity under the guidance of scientific design of platform knowledge governance mechanisms through improved knowledge transformation processes.
Design/methodology/approach
Therefore, based on knowledge governance theory and knowledge transformation model (SECI, socialization-externalization-combination-internalization), the study explored the influence of relationship and contractual knowledge governance on the innovation ambidexterity of platform participants through the mediation effect of knowledge transformation. To better analyze complex causal relationships among variables and the chain multiple mediation effect, structural equation modeling is used, coupled with bootstrap analysis verification.
Findings
Platform contractual governance and relationship governance can positively influence the innovation ambidexterity of participants through knowledge trading and reuse, as well as through knowledge sharing and creation. The findings not only contribute to optimizing the effectiveness of knowledge activities on digital platforms but also provide empirical evidence and practical insights to support enterprises’ incremental and breakthrough innovation according to their own knowledge bases.
Practical implications
The findings offer valuable insights for providing decision-making guidance not only for platform-leading enterprises but also for individual and enterprise users on effectively using open innovation platforms to conduct knowledge seeking, trading or sharing and knowledge reuse or creation to enlarge the incremental innovation value and to trigger breakthrough innovation value in their product and technology developments.
Social implications
Through diverse knowledge governance mechanisms, platform-leading enterprises do not only act as “economic agents” with private attributes to reduce knowledge asymmetry in the public trading market, diffuse knowledge broadly and mitigate cooperation costs to increase economic value; they also serve as “social actors” for multilateral participants to increase the cohesion of knowledge sharing and creation to provide sustainable knowledge fuel for the higher level of breakthrough innovation. Overall, knowledge arrangement efficiency can be optimized, and breakthrough innovation value can be activated in a well-governed platform, gradually escaping the diminishing marginal benefits of exploitative innovation.
Originality/value
This study has extended the views of the knowledge transformation model under the platform context and proposed dualistic knowledge transformation pathways, named “tacit knowledge socialization” and “explicit knowledge combination,” respectively. Besides, it discovered that under the contractual and relationship knowledge governance mechanisms’ guiding, participants in open innovation platforms may choose different knowledge searching and exchange ways according to their knowledge needs and thus trigger the different knowledge transform process. Then, “tacit knowledge socialization” transformation can show larger positive impact on breakthrough innovation, while “explicit knowledge combination” transformation makes larger impact on incremental innovation.