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Questioning the assessment of research impact : illusions, myths and marginal sectors / Rhodri Thomas
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
141 p.
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.4791072
'This is quite simply a brilliant book, offering a critical analysis of impact and REF which is long overdue ... It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how and why the growing need to show a particular kind of impact from research is restructuring academia; this new agenda has far reaching consequences for critical researchers, so-called marginal subjects and for everyday working cultures in academic departments.' -Professor Rosaleen Duffy, University of Sheffield, UK This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies. Informed by interviews with key informants, ethnographic reflections on the author's extensive work with trade and professional associations, and various secondary data, it paints a picture of inevitable research policy failure. This conclusion is justified by reference to ill-founded official conceptualisations of practitioner and organisational behaviour, and the orientation and quality of tourism research. The author calls for a more serious consideration of research-informed teaching as a means of creating knowledge flows from universities. Research with greater social and economic impact might then be achievable. This radical assessment will be of interest and value to policy makers, university research managers and tourism scholars. Rhodri Thomas is Professor of Tourism and Events Policy and Dean of the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
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Small firms in tourism : international perspectives / [edited by] Rhodri Thomas
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
322 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.4791
This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small businesses in tourism. In doing so it reflects the eclecticism of interest and method associated with this under-researched and under-theorised area of investigation. Topics range from the potential contribution of small firms to achieving social or economic goals to understanding more about business performance and growth. As is common in tourism research, disciplinary boundaries are routinely transgressed in the interests of gaining greater illumination. Insights from a variety of countries are offered, sometimes as a result of trans-national collaboration initiated specifically for this book. Shows the eclecticism of interest and method associated with this under-researched and under-theorised area.
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Tourism in the new Europe : perspectives on SME policies and practices / [edited by] Rhodri Thomas; Marcjanna Augustyn
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
263 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.47914
The book represents a state of the art review of key research on small firms in tourism in relation to European integration. It is, therefore, an essential resource for those engaged in research relating to tourism SMEs in transitional economies throughout the world. In addition, it is an essential purchase for the increasing number of students studying modules on small businesses as part of their final year undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. One of the key features of this book is its clear focus on breaking new ground by reporting recent research and theorising on small firms in tourism. In many cases, the analysis provided by contributors will carefully relate small business behaviour to issues of wider concern to tourism academics and policy-makers. It is also distinctive for its overt emphasis on contrasting European experiences. These characteristics contrast with the existing literature on small firms in tourism and hospitality, particularly in Europe. Previous literature achieved their aims by providing valuable syntheses of existing literature. Now that such 'taking of stock' has been undertaken, there is a demand for more overtly research-based texts that are nevertheless accessible to a wide audience. This book does exactly that. *Focuses on small firms in European tourism *Breaks new ground by being a research-based text that remains accessible to a wide audience *An excellent resource for those researching small business and tourism in transitional economies worldwide.
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