A Transaction Cost Economics View on Outsourcing Decision in Spanish Publishing Industry

Purpose: The present study analyzes, through the online survey method, the role of KIBS in the processes of digital transformation and technological change of Spanish publishing companies. The general goal of this research is to explore the effects produced over Spanish publishing companies in interacting with KIBS as facilitators, bearers, and generators of innovation. Some other more specific objectives linked to this general goal are the following ones: a) to determine the role of transaction costs as drivers of the outsourcing of knowledge management systems through KIBS; and b) to understand to what extent the interaction of publishers with KIBS promotes in those the introduction of new business models. Methodology: Through the survey conducted among 310 Spanish publishers from a universe of 992 companies pertaining to DILVE, the only platform and database of Spanish publishers used for any approach to this sector, and using open and closed questions, the study tries to answer the stated research questions. Findings/Contribution: it is concluded that: i) the extension of the relationship between publishers and KIBS moves from the production subsystem to the distribution one; ii) the link between their respective value chains is perceived as profound enough to turn KIBS into facilitators, bearers and generators of the innovation required by the Spanish publishing companies; and iii) KIBS are the fundamental axes for the adoption of new business models. &nbsp

The Digitization in the Spanish Publishing Industry

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the impacts of technological change in the Spanish publishing industry and see how it is adapting to the new digital environment. This work provides a deep insight into the Spanish publishing industry through the collection of available data, mainly from secondary sources of information, both public and private, and from a review of a great number of documents from different sources, grouping all the data obtained to generate a time series, allowing to glimpse the state and evolution of digitization in the Spanish publishing industry along these almost 20 years. This chapter refers to the new business models emerging from digitalization, ending with some conclusions, recommendations, and future lines of research. This chapter is not just trying to be a journey through the past, present, and future of the book industry in Spain, but it pretends being the first step to continue investigating these and other aspects in a deeper way

Indicators and perspectives of bibliodiversity in the Spanish publishing sector

In the absence of research aimed to measure the bibliodiversity of the Spanish publishing sector through indicators, the general objective of this work is to determine quantitatively whether the Spanish publishing sector is bibliodiverse. The specific goals are the following: a) analyze those necessary conditions to promote bibliodiversity, b) identify the main variables that conform bibliodiversity, and c) measure the degree of bibliodiversity. From the study of the contributions of the academic literature, this research forms an analysis model with the main necessary conditions of the bibliodiversity of the Spanish publishing sector: deconcentration, digital transformation, and glocalization. After reflecting on bibliodiversity, this research builds a theoretical analysis model to study the different variables that define bibliodiversity (linguistic, publishing companies, formats, thematic, and gender) and apply the various bibliodiversity indicators (Simpson, Shanon-Weaver and Pielou). Through a synthetic general bibliodiversity index, the different indices obtained for each variable considered in the research can be grouped.The research concludes that the Spanish publishing sector is bibliodiverse

Publishing Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Production Indexed in Scopus

The general goal of this work is to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the scientific production in the publishing industry between 2012 and 2022. For this purpose, the following research posed the following questions: (i) what are the leading academic publications that collect scientific production around the publishing industry? (ii) who are the most productive and influential authors in research on the publishing industry? (iii) from which countries do the published academic works come?, and (iv) in which universities are research on the publishing industry concentrated? This research used the information available in Scopus to address this bibliometric analysis. The analysis conducted in this work is exploratory, descriptive, and quantitative, based on the techniques and tools of bibliometric analysis of the documents stored in the Scopus bibliographic database. This article highlights that research on the global book publishing market is interdisciplinary and, therefore, highly cross-cutting. The economic dimension of the publishing process, and the history and culture of the book dominated the study subjects. There is also a growing trend of research on the impact of new technologies on the value chain and book distribution, without forgetting the increasing studies on new business models in the publishing industry

Drivers of eco-innovation and economic development in the Spanish hospitality industry

Eco-innovation is a challenge for tourism industry, given the connection and interrelationship between environmental quality, economic development and business performance. Th eco-innovation plans represents a new field of research in its infancy. This paper addresses the conceptual evolution of eco-innovation to subsequently develop an analytical framework that tentatively explores this concept and its implementation in Spanish hotel companies through two basic internal characteristics of these organizations: their economic development and business performance, and their respective size, measured in terms of capacity. A qualitative research method was implied, making a set of case studies of 10 Spanish hotel groups, through documentary evidence and structured interviews. Findings suggest the influencing and determining factors for eco-innovation action

Drivers of eco-innovation and economic development in the Spanish hospitality industry

Eco-innovation is a challenge for tourism industry, given the connection and interrelationship between environmental quality, economic development and business performance. Th eco-innovation plans represents a new field of research in its infancy. This paper addresses the conceptual evolution of eco-innovation to subsequently develop an analytical framework that tentatively explores this concept and its implementation in Spanish hotel companies through two basic internal characteristics of these organizations: their economic development and business performance, and their respective size, measured in terms of capacity. A qualitative research method was implied, making a set of case studies of 10 Spanish hotel groups, through documentary evidence and structured interviews. Findings suggest the influencing and determining factors for eco-innovation action

Adaptación de la industria del libro en España al cambio tecnológico: Pasado, presente y futuro de la digitalización

The main goal of this paper is to analyze how technological change affects the Spanish publishing industry and how it is adapting to the new digital environment. This work provides an overview of the situation of the Spanish publishing sector through the collection of data, mainly from secondary sources of information, both public and private, from 1996 to 2017, that involved the review of a large number of documents from different sources, the analysis of data obtained, and the generation of a time series allowing us to glimpse the state and evolution of digitalization in the Spanish publishing industry throughout these last twenty years. The paper refers to the new business models emerging as a result of digitization to, finally, close with some conclusions and limitations of the research. This study is not trying to be just a journey through the past, present and future of the Spanish book industry in Spain, but it pretends to be the first step to continue investigating these and other aspects in a deeper way

El impacto disruptivo del libro electrónico sobre la cadena de valor editorial española: un estudio de casos

The present work analyses the disruptive impact of the e-book on the Spanish publishers’ value chain. A case study on three Spanish publishing companies is carried out. The most relevant results obtained are: a) the development of e-book does not encourage the publisher to reduce its production of paper books but complements this traditional activity, b) the development of e-book encourages the publisher to redefine its value chain to integrate the new product, c) the new digital context opens the possibility for Spanish publishers to obtain advantages derived from disintermediation, and d) existing business models in already consolidated publishing companies must be rethought to adapt them to e-book, which can be imply a commitment to maintain both formats -paper and electronic- or renounce paper and move towards a business model solely dedicated to e-books.El presente trabajo analiza el impacto disruptivo de la aparición del libro electrónico sobre la cadena de valor en la industria editorial española. Se lleva a cabo un estudio de casos de tres empresas editoriales españolas. Los principales resultados obtenidos son: a) el desarrollo del libro electrónico no incentiva a la editorial a reducir su producción de libro en papel sino que complementa dicha actividad tradicional, b) el desarrollo del libro electrónico incentiva a la editorial a redefinir su cadena de valor para integrar el nuevo producto, c) el nuevo contexto digital abre a las editoriales españolas la posibilidad de obtener ventajas derivadas de la desintermediación, y d) los modelos de negocio existentes en editoriales ya consolidadas deben ser repensados para adaptarlos al libro electrónico, lo que puede implicar una apuesta por mantener ambos formatos -papel y electrónico- o por la renuncia al papel, transitando hacia un modelo exclusivamente dedicado al libro electrónico