Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact: Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors - Couverture rigide

Thomas, Rhodri

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319957228 ISBN 13 : 9783319957227

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rhodri Thomas is Professor of Tourism and Events Policy and Dean of the School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319957228
• ISBN 13: 9783319957227
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 147
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