TIDES: Entrepreneurship, Digital Business and Innovation

Affiliated Research areas

• Strategy, operation research
• Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• hotel
• public management
• digital business
• entrepreneurship
• Tourism
• Human Resources
• financing systems
• public budget
• management control
• public policy
• artificial intelligence
• sharing economy
• e-business
• e-commerce
• digital business

Summary

- Public management and policy: Public policy and management. Acronym: GPP. This line of research includes the analysis and evaluation of public policies, as well as the adaptation and application of management control tools to the peculiarities of the public sector, especially its connection with the budget preparation process. It also includes the study of the different organizational options and their adaptation to the type of activity to be developed by each public organization. Another aspect under study is the analysis of the financing systems of the territorial internal revenue services, especially in the Canary Islands.
- TOURISM: Tourism. Acronym: TUR. In this line of research, studies seek to analyze problems and issues relevant to the improvement of tourist activity and its environment. The focus of research can be, among others, the tourism company, consumers, new ways of providing tourism services, and contextual aspects such as employment in the sector or technological progress.
- Human Resources Directorate: Human resource management. Acronym: HRM. This research line covers all the topics related with people management in organizations. Globally, it includes the human resources practices and configuration, their interaction with other aspects that are relevant for management such as technology, marketing and consumers, and workers' behavior and attitudes. Both, traditional organizations, and the role that the Internet has in new types of work and services delivery, respectively, are considered.
- Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship. Acronym: ENT. This line of research is especially interested in the study, analysis and monitoring of the start-up process. We are interested in the early stage of new companies in any sector of economic activity, as well as the intrapreneurship process taking place within existing companies and organizations. Particular reference is made to the entrepreneur, the characteristics of the new firm, and the context in which the entrepreneurial process takes place. In addition, we are particularly interested in policies to promote business network and entrepreneurship, whether public, institutional or corporate. The line also seeks to better understand the consequences of entrepreneurship in fostering local and regional wealth and employment.
- Digital company: Digital firm. Acronym: DF. This research attempts to analyze the changes that occur in organizations due to the Network Society, and the introduction of new technologies in management: new business models, reengineering of existing models, redesigning operations, new organizational models, changes in the forms of relationship with clients, etc.