Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia

New tourism trend and products are fast emerging within travel industry. Nevertheless, small and medium travel agencies are unable to exploit these new business opportunities and venture into new travel product. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to propose a study that brings out an explorator...

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Main Authors: Mohd Kamal, Saiful Bahri, Zawawi, Dahlia, Abdullah, Dahlan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/1/57004.pdf
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author Mohd Kamal, Saiful Bahri
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Abdullah, Dahlan
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description New tourism trend and products are fast emerging within travel industry. Nevertheless, small and medium travel agencies are unable to exploit these new business opportunities and venture into new travel product. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to propose a study that brings out an exploratory research which intends to evaluate and assess the entrepreneurs’ new product development capabilities as well as market responsiveness, paying attention on through the implementation of cooperation. The establishment of different intangible resources gained through cooperation could boost entrepreneurial capabilities (new product development and market responsiveness) that will lead to the provision of competitiveness and growth in performance. This information is regarded as valuable resource that could be used by travel agency entrepreneurs as well as related agencies to understand the enhanced resources and capabilities needed to direct them towards business growth and positive development.
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spelling upm-570042017-09-07T03:10:03Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/ Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia Mohd Kamal, Saiful Bahri Zawawi, Dahlia Abdullah, Dahlan New tourism trend and products are fast emerging within travel industry. Nevertheless, small and medium travel agencies are unable to exploit these new business opportunities and venture into new travel product. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to propose a study that brings out an exploratory research which intends to evaluate and assess the entrepreneurs’ new product development capabilities as well as market responsiveness, paying attention on through the implementation of cooperation. The establishment of different intangible resources gained through cooperation could boost entrepreneurial capabilities (new product development and market responsiveness) that will lead to the provision of competitiveness and growth in performance. This information is regarded as valuable resource that could be used by travel agency entrepreneurs as well as related agencies to understand the enhanced resources and capabilities needed to direct them towards business growth and positive development. Elsevier 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/1/57004.pdf Mohd Kamal, Saiful Bahri and Zawawi, Dahlia and Abdullah, Dahlan (2016) Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia. Procedia Economics and Finance, 37. pp. 115-120. ISSN 2212-5671 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567116301010#! 10.1016/S2212-5671(16)30101-0
spellingShingle Mohd Kamal, Saiful Bahri
Zawawi, Dahlia
Abdullah, Dahlan
Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title_full Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title_fullStr Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title_short Entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in Malaysia
title_sort entrepreneurial orientation for small and medium travel agencies in malaysia
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/57004/1/57004.pdf