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| TOURISM INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION: RESEARCH PARADIGMS AND THEORY STUDY SYSTEM BASED ON THE COMPLEX SYSTEM SCIENCE |
| YANG Chun-yu, XIE Xiao-dan, XU Hai-yan, ZHANG Dan-xia, LI Zhu-zhu |
| Tourism Management Department, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang 550025, China |
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Abstract What is the meaning of tourism institution and tourism institutional evolution? Why similar tourism institutions in different countries and regions resulted in different function and economic performance? These questions have caught the scholars' attention and brought about wide academic debate. Like the changing process of society, economy, and culture, tourism institutional evolution is also a gradual process, in which the institutional subjects create and diffuse knowledge. It is also a dynamic process of continuous change through which the institutional subjects adapt to the complex environment through continuous trial and error experimentation. Therefore, we need to explore the following questions from an epistemological and methodological perspective. The issue of most importance is the research paradigm of tourism institutional evolution, followed by the dynamics and mechanism of tourism institutional evolution. In view of this, the authors took the Systems Science and Game Theory as the guidance and explored issues involving the theoretical construction of the tourism institutional evolution. The content of our study focused on the following:a) Concept definition:We clearly defined tourism institution as a complex system. Each component of system by its own forces affects the evolutional process of the tourism institution system. b) Research paradigm:Abandoning the neoclassical economics view of a perfectly rational, static, and general equilibrium system, we proposed a limited rational, dynamic, and evolutionary view of system. c) Theoretical research:We constructed a theoretical research structure that was based on the analysis of the dynamics, mechanism, and rules of the tourism institutional evolution.
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Received: 03 June 2014
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2015, Vol. 30 
