Methodological implications of the research design in tourism supply chain collaboration

18th EDAMBA Summer Academy, 23rd-29th July, Soreze, FRANCE, 18 pages.

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Abstract

This paper presents the methodological implications of a research design for conducting mixed-methods research examining the determinants of collaboration in the tourism supply chains. Base on the positivist’s stance of a research philosophy, the proposed model derived from the Transaction Cost Economics theory (TCE) is designed to be initially verified by semi-structured interview. Then, a proposed model will be statistically tested by a Structural Equation Modelling using empirical data obtained from questionnaire survey. Furthermore, a multiple cases study will be simultaneously employed in order to triangulate the result and to gain industrial insights.