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Explorando el impacto de las habilidades digitales en la innovación de las PYMES de hostelería del Estado Libre de Sudáfrica: una revision sistemática
No full textDigital transformation is increasingly recognised as a driver of innovation and competitiveness in Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). In South Africa’s Free State Province, hospitality SMMEs face significant disparities in digital skills adoption, especially between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. This systematic review explores how digital skills influence innovation within hospitality SMMEs in this context. The review followed the PRISMA framework, with searches conducted across Web of Science and JSTOR. Inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed English-language articles published between 2019 and 2025, focusing on digital skills, innovation, and digital transformation in hospitality or SMME contexts in developing regions. Exclusion criteria ruled out grey literature, non-English texts, and studies unrelated to the hospitality sector. Of 300 initial records, 50 articles met the inclusion criteria and were analysed. Findings reveal that digital skills are key enablers of product, process, and business model innovation. However, challenges such as financial constraints, limited infrastructure, and digital literacy gaps hinder widespread adoption. Hospitality SMMEs with access to digital ecosystems and structured support (e.g., training, mentorship) demonstrate greater innovation capacity and entrepreneurial resilience. The review also finds that while basic digital tools (e.g., social media, booking platforms) are adopted in urban areas, non-metropolitan businesses lag significantly. The study concludes that bridging the digital divide through targeted policy interventions and inclusive digital ecosystems is essential for enhancing innovation in hospitality SMMEs. The findings offer practical insights for policymakers, educators, and support agencies aiming to foster sustainable digital transformation in under-resourced regions.
Keywords: Digital skills, Hospitality SMMEs, SMMEs innovation, Digital transformation, Digital ecosystems and Entrepreneurial resilience.La transformación digital se reconoce cada vez más como un motor de innovación y competitividad en las pequeñas, medianas y microempresas turísticas. En la provincia del Estado Libre de Sudáfrica, las pymes del sector de la hostelería se enfrentan a importantes disparidades en la adopción de competencias digitales, especialmente entre las zonas metropolitanas y no metropolitanas. Esta revisión sistemática explora cómo influyen las competencias digitales en la innovación dentro de las pymes del sector de la hostelería en este contexto. La revisión siguió el marco PRISMA, con búsquedas realizadas en Web of Science y JSTOR. Los criterios de inclusión fueron artículos revisados por pares, en inglés y publicados entre 2019 y 2025, centrados en las competencias digitales, la innovación y la transformación digital en el sector de la hostelería o en el contexto de las pymes en regiones en desarrollo. Los criterios de exclusión descartaron la literatura gris, los textos en otros idiomas y los estudios no relacionados con el sector de la hostelería. De 300 registros iniciales, 50 artículos cumplieron los criterios de inclusión y fueron analizados. Los resultados revelan que las competencias digitales son facilitadoras clave de la innovación de productos, procesos y modelos de negocio. Sin embargo, desafíos como las limitaciones financieras, la infraestructura limitada y las deficiencias en alfabetización digital dificultan su adopción generalizada. Las pymes del sector de la hostelería con acceso a ecosistemas digitales y apoyo estructurado (p. ej., formación, mentoría) demuestran una mayor capacidad de innovación y resiliencia empresarial. El análisis también revela que, si bien las herramientas digitales básicas (p. ej., redes sociales, plataformas de reservas) se adoptan en zonas urbanas, las empresas de zonas no metropolitanas se encuentran rezagadas significativamente. El estudio concluye que superar la brecha digital mediante intervenciones políticas específicas y ecosistemas digitales inclusivos es fundamental para impulsar la innovación en las pymes del sector de la hostelería. Los resultados ofrecen información práctica para los responsables políticos, educadores y organismos de apoyo que buscan fomentar una transformación digital sostenible en regiones pobres o en vías de desarrollo.
Palabras clave: Competencias digitales, pymes del sector de la hostelería, innovación en las pymes, transformación digital, ecosistemas digitales y resiliencia empresarial
Exploring the Impact of Digital Skills on Innovation in Hospitality SMMEs in the Free State Province: A Systematic Review
No full textDigital transformation is increasingly recognised as a driver of innovation and competitiveness in Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). In South Africa’s Free State Province, hospitality SMMEs face significant disparities in digital skills adoption, especially between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. This systematic review explores how digital skills influence innovation within hospitality SMMEs in this context. The review followed the PRISMA framework, with searches conducted across Web of Science and JSTOR. Inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed English-language articles published between 2019 and 2025, focusing on digital skills, innovation, and digital transformation in hospitality or SMME contexts in developing regions. Exclusion criteria ruled out grey literature, non-English texts, and studies unrelated to the hospitality sector. Of 300 initial records, 50 articles met the inclusion criteria and were analysed. Findings reveal that digital skills are key enablers of product, process, and business model innovation. However, challenges such as financial constraints, limited infrastructure, and digital literacy gaps hinder widespread adoption. Hospitality SMMEs with access to digital ecosystems and structured support (e.g., training, mentorship) demonstrate greater innovation capacity and entrepreneurial resilience. The review also finds that while basic digital tools (e.g., social media, booking platforms) are adopted in urban areas, non-metropolitan businesses lag significantly. The study concludes that bridging the digital divide through targeted policy interventions and inclusive digital ecosystems is essential for enhancing innovation in hospitality SMMEs. The findings offer practical insights for policymakers, educators, and support agencies aiming to foster sustainable digital transformation in under-resourced regions.
Keywords: Digital skills, Hospitality SMMEs, SMMEs innovation, Digital transformation, Digital ecosystems and Entrepreneurial resilience.La transformación digital se reconoce cada vez más como un motor de innovación y competitividad en las pequeñas, medianas y microempresas turísticas. En la provincia del Estado Libre de Sudáfrica, las pymes del sector de la hostelería se enfrentan a importantes disparidades en la adopción de competencias digitales, especialmente entre las zonas metropolitanas y no metropolitanas. Esta revisión sistemática explora cómo influyen las competencias digitales en la innovación dentro de las pymes del sector de la hostelería en este contexto. La revisión siguió el marco PRISMA, con búsquedas realizadas en Web of Science y JSTOR. Los criterios de inclusión fueron artículos revisados por pares, en inglés y publicados entre 2019 y 2025, centrados en las competencias digitales, la innovación y la transformación digital en el sector de la hostelería o en el contexto de las pymes en regiones en desarrollo. Los criterios de exclusión descartaron la literatura gris, los textos en otros idiomas y los estudios no relacionados con el sector de la hostelería. De 300 registros iniciales, 50 artículos cumplieron los criterios de inclusión y fueron analizados. Los resultados revelan que las competencias digitales son facilitadoras clave de la innovación de productos, procesos y modelos de negocio. Sin embargo, desafíos como las limitaciones financieras, la infraestructura limitada y las deficiencias en alfabetización digital dificultan su adopción generalizada. Las pymes del sector de la hostelería con acceso a ecosistemas digitales y apoyo estructurado (p. ej., formación, mentoría) demuestran una mayor capacidad de innovación y resiliencia empresarial. El análisis también revela que, si bien las herramientas digitales básicas (p. ej., redes sociales, plataformas de reservas) se adoptan en zonas urbanas, las empresas de zonas no metropolitanas se encuentran rezagadas significativamente. El estudio concluye que superar la brecha digital mediante intervenciones políticas específicas y ecosistemas digitales inclusivos es fundamental para impulsar la innovación en las pymes del sector de la hostelería. Los resultados ofrecen información práctica para los responsables políticos, educadores y organismos de apoyo que buscan fomentar una transformación digital sostenible en regiones pobres o en vías de desarrollo.
Palabras clave: Competencias digitales, pymes del sector de la hostelería, innovación en las pymes, transformación digital, ecosistemas digitales y resiliencia empresarial
Effectiveness of social media platforms for product marketing in southwestern Nigeria: a firm-level analysis
Full text linkThe development of social media has provided a paradigm shift in the way firms communicate with their customers, suppliers, competitors and other external sources. Much more as it relates to getting inputs, recommendations and feedbacks on their products. Despite these windows of benefits provided by social media, little is known about its effective use among SMEs, especially in the context of firms in developing countries like Nigeria. This paper thus examined firm-level analysis of the effectiveness of social media platforms in Southwestern Nigeria. The study focused on firms that are into servicing and sales of consumer technology and clothing. Data were collected through the administration of structured questionnaire with a sample of 400 respondents. The findings showed that there were positive and significant correlation between average total sales and increased revenue (r = 0.226, ρ<0.05), sales increase (r = 0.291, ρ<0.05), increases customers (r = 0.200, ρ <0.05) and product feedbacks (r = 0.121, ρ<0.01). Based on the result, firm’s deployment of social media platforms for product marketing activities had positive impact on sales performance. The result further showed that educational background of the CEO/manager is key as it impacts the extent to which manager’s use the social media technology to promote firms presence online as well as to market their products. The research also found that customer loyalty could gain via the social web platforms. This was as revealed by the average followership received by the businesses online. It is therefore imperative for business aspiring to grow their market share on their products to leverage on the available social media tool, especially Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for competitiveness within the business space.Keywords: Social media platforms, Firms, Product marketing, Effectiveness, Total sale
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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