Cognitive and cultural proximity between service managers and customers in cross border regions: knowledge transfer implications
Weidenfeld, Adi, Bjork, Peter and Williams, Allan M. (2016) Cognitive and cultural proximity between service managers and customers in cross border regions: knowledge transfer implications. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 16 (Sup 1) . pp. 66-86. ISSN 1502-2250 [Article] (doi:10.1080/15022250.2016.1244587)
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Abstract
Knowledge transfer between customers and managers is an important source of new ideas for innovation in the service industries. In cross border regions, inter-cultural interactions engender but also constrain knowledge transfers between actors even when actors share similar economic and technological knowledge bases. This theme is explored through an analysis of cognitive and cultural proximity between service managers and customers from “the other side” in a European cross border region where the constituent regions have broadly similar national cultures: Tornio-Haparanda on the border between Finland and Sweden. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with Swedish and Finnish managers of small and micro businesses serving customers from both sides were undertaken to gauge their perceptions of the impact of cultural and cognitive proximity to customers on learning interactions. The study adds to the emerging literature in this field by identifying seven elements of cognitive and cultural proximity including mentality, ways of solving problems, conservatism, shared language, focus on contextualized details, mentality and use of similar technologies. It is also original for the implications of perceived cultural and cognitive proximity on cross border knowledge transfer between customers and managers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Volume 16, 2016 - Sup. Issue 1: Tourism and Border Crossings: Bordering and Cross-Border Tourism in the Nordic Region |
| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Marketing, Branding and Tourism |
| Item ID: | 19962 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism on 04/11/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15022250.2016.1244587 |
| Depositing User: | Adi Weidenfeld |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2016 15:19 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2022 02:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/19962 |
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