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We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism and Events Management Track at the2009 British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference taking place on 9-11 September at the Brighton Centre, Brighton.
Convenors: Dr Angela Roper and Dr Paul Lynch
Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism & Events Management Track:
In this area of management, competing perspectives on the challenges facing business and management has almost always been a central concern, be it significance to organisations, managers and workforce or consumers. This track aims to encompass the full wealth of management research but also welcomes critical and social scientific perspectives as applied to hospitality, leisure, tourism and events management and also papers concerned with methodological issues of relevance to advancing new knowledge. Whilst we welcome all good management papers applied to the hospitality, leisure, tourism and events industries, we are particularly interested in those which address some of the issues below:
- What will one find at the end of the Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism and Events Management piers?
- What advances made towards development and understanding of new forms of ethical organisations. What does it mean to be ethically-led?
- What new developments are occurring in hospitality, leisure, tourism and events that will better prepare graduates for the challenges future managers will encounter?
- Slow food movement, ethical travel, couch-surfing, on-line gambling, virtual conferencing, living off-the-grid
What are the implications of such social trends for business and management in hospitality, leisure, tourism and events?
- With increasing research into the internationalisation - how relevant is theory to the development, strategy and management of international hospitality, tourism and leisure firms?
- In terms of generic operations theory how appropriate is this to the way our sector firms and organisations work and the way they need to be managed? How much of this theory is disseminated and applied in reality?
- Security and safety and the impact of climate change - Are these any further up the agenda for organisations in our sectors? What can management learn from our research? Assuming we do not know enough, what further research is needed to influence practice?
- Gaining access to firms, organisations and consumers is an increasing concern how do we make research happen, what can we learn and share from gaining and maintaining access to relevant samples?
- Action research is becoming more widely used as a research strategy how has theory informed and even improved practice?
- Many studies involve case study research how do we disseminate findings back to sample case firms? Is this different to how we academically write up findings?
- Increased use of more highly qualitative research methods are being employed associated with the more recent moments of qualitative research what contributions to understanding management have been made? How have they enhanced organisational understanding and practice?
- All four sectors feature a wide range of firms from small independents to large multinational corporations how do they differ in terms of the management issues facing them in the future?
- Social scientific perspectives and their contributions to informing management theory and practice across the four sectors.
- Critical perspectives are making ever more significant contributions to knowledge in hospitality, leisure, tourism and event management. How are they informing and developing current practices and understandings?
- Given developments in the organisation of business faculties and the increasing usage of generic management journal quality grading lists as benchmarks, what educational and management issues arise from hospitality, leisure, tourism and events being brought under a business and management agenda?
The closing date for all submissions is Friday 27 February 2009.
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f you have any questions about the track please contact us. We look forward to receiving your paper.
Dr Angela Roper, University of Surrey (
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Dr Paul Lynch, University of Strathclyde (
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