Entrepreneurship and Co-Evolution in Hospitality

Dear Colleagues,

This call for papers aims to present a comprehensive collection of articles introducing new visions, approaches, point of views, and methods, alongside the development of recent methodologies in the framework of entrepreneurship and co-evolution in hospitality.

Moreover, the research pathway aims at validating the structure of the relationship between hospitality influence and hospitality enterprises performing within the city/country, which can be described as co-evolutionary, in such a manner that will describe the impact of related species on each other in their evolution, followed by research and surveys associated to entrepreneurship, hospitality, the co-evolution of the sector, management, and organization.

The perspective of hospitality evolution reflects the role of entrepreneurial activities in the tourism sector, as well as other service sectors, such as church, business, etc. Thus, when communicating about hospitality, one actually falls into the tourism sector, due to the fact that friendliness, helpfulness, welcome, kindness, etc. are needed for the guest, i.e., tourist, which will be provided by all the hospitality titles, such as the event planner, hotel manager/receptionist, housekeeper, waiter/waitress, etc. Further, the hospitality industry is based on four main ones: food and beverages, travel and tourism, lodging, and recreation. These industries have evolved with the times, and entrepreneurial activities have highlighted themselves in a remarkable way, certainly on an economic and social concept. Moreover, they are part of a big change in the working environment, notably when women entrepreneurs’ appearance becomes of great importance, leading to pinpointing the role of the entrepreneur in the co-evolution of hospitality (Novak, 2017; Doyle, 2019).

The role of entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry is oriented toward the individuals who open businesses that provide customers with all the services needed in their stay/transportation/food and beverages/lodging/etc. (Doyle, 2019). For instance, hospitality has another point to underline, which is related to the person being hospitable in their house in terms of being welcoming, kind, and friendly. However, the main point that hospitality is oriented toward the best suitable qualification of describing the relationship between the hospitality place and its hospitality enterprises is considered the co-evolutionary viewpoint. Likewise, the co-evolutionary process indicates an identification of the governance body, which will be capable of applying and improving the fundamental resources available in the city/country to influence the management approaches of the different hospitality organizations. Further, co-evolution appears via a certain and intention strategic orientation, which will be experienced by all parties, regarding their belonging or not to the business and their direct or indirect involvement in the evolutionary energetic and active city/country that allow the development of events with other hospitality enterprises (Valeri and Fadlon, 2018).  

All theoretical and methodological (both qualitative and quantitative) approaches are equally appreciated, and we particularly welcome multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions that cover different issues relevant to strategic management, operations or marketing and provide evidence-based on the theme of the Special Issue.

Prof. Marco Valeri
Prof. Jacques Digout
Prof. Charbel Salloum
Guest Editors

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