Professor Williams' Research Evaluated as Outstanding by ESRC

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Professor Allan Williams’ research on innovation in UK hotels has been formally evaluated as ‘outstanding’ by its funding body, the Economic and Social Research Council. The research on ‘Internationalisation and Innovation in the Service Sector: the Role of International Migration in UK Hotels’ was undertaken jointly with Professor Gareth Shaw at the University of Exeter. It was the only tourism related project funded within a larger programme of research on innovation under the auspices of the Advanced Institute of Management, 2006-11. The findings of the research have been published in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management and Mobilities.

 

Outputs from this research include:

Shaw G, Bailey A, Williams A. (2011) 'Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: Examples from the hotel industry'. Elsevier Tourism Management, 32 (2), pp. 207-214.
doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.05.020
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/56982/

Williams AM, Shaw G. (2011) 'Internationalization and innovation in tourism'. Elsevier Annals of Tourism Research, 38 (1), pp. 27-51.
doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2010.09.006
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/59935/

Shaw G, Williams A. (2009) 'Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda'. Elsevier Tourism Management, 30 (3), pp. 325-335.
doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.02.023
Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/59939/