Title

Barriers affecting organisational adoption of higher order customer engagement in tourism service interactions

Authors

Authors

P. K. Chathoth; G. R. Ungson; L. Altinay; E. S. W. Chan; R. Harrington;F. Okumus

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Tourism Manage.

Keywords

Consumer engagement; Organisational barriers; Value-creating network; Co-creation; Service-dominant logic; CO-CREATION; DOMINANT LOGIC; PRODUCT INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; DIRECTIONS; INDUSTRY; IMPACT; FOCUS; SATISFACTION; INFORMATION; Environmental Studies; Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism; Management

Abstract

In this study, consumer engagement was examined from a service-dominant logic perspective in tourism service interactions. Extensive field interviews and focus groups in the context of three upscale hotels in Hong Kong identified numerous barriers towards successfully engaging consumers, extending from consumer, technological, and strategic cases to organisational cases. In all, a firm's overall strategy, organisational structure and culture are the most important barriers determining whether consumer engagement as depicted in the literature can be successfully deployed within hotel organisations. Implications call for a more intensive study of engaging consumers from an organisational context with a reassessment of progressive stages that include leadership interventions and the incorporation of consumer feedback at all stages of the firm's value-creating network. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Tourism Management

Volume

42

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

181

Last Page

193

WOS Identifier

WOS:000333000100019

ISSN

0261-5177

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