2024-07-092024-07-092023Dias, Á., Silva, G.M., Patuleia, M. y González Rodríguez, M.R. (2023). Developing sustainable business models: local knowledge acquisition and tourism lifestyle entrepreneurship. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 31 (4), 931-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1835931.1747-7646https://hdl.handle.net/11441/161215Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs’ (TLEs) businesses are associated with sustainable business models (SBMs) due to a link to the place. This link is a source of essential local knowledge that provides differentiation, competitiveness, and sustainability. Given the importance of local know- ledge to SBMs, this article explores knowledge management by examin- ing how TLEs acquire and integrate knowledge as well as its effects on innovativeness and self-efficacy. We use a sequential mixed-methods approach in which we first conducted a qualitative study with four in- depth semi-structured interviews with TLEs, followed by a quantitative study through a survey of 115 TLEs, and third we conducted another qualitative study based on four semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that entrepreneurial communication has a significantly positive and direct effect on both the innovativeness and self-efficacy of TLEs. A community-centered strategy has a positive influence on innovativeness and self-efficacy but via the indirect effect of entrepreneurial communi- cation. Local knowledge assimilation plays a mediating role between the acquisition of local knowledge and innovativeness and self-efficacy. These findings provide a general understanding and framework about how TLEs link the elements of an SBM to greater innovativeness and self-efficacy.application/pdf20 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Lifestyle entrepreneurshipInnovativenessSelf-efficacyCreative TourismSustainabilityKnowledge managementMixed- methods researchinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1835931