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46
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12759
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3522
National Ranking
592

Overview

Gareth Shaw is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and business management, focusing on tourism, organizational studies, and marketing. The main fields of study encompass Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Social Sciences, with a significant volume of publications addressing diverse aspects of human behavior in organizational and consumer contexts.

Their scholarly contributions include work on various topics such as:

  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Management Theory and Practice
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Accounting and Organizational Management

Shaw's publications frequently appear in respected academic venues, highlighting focal points in tourism economics and business relations. Prominent publication venues include:

  • Tourism Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Tourism and Hospitality Research
  • International Journal of Tourism Research
  • Human Relations

An overview of selected recent papers reveals a focus on tourism and organizational management issues:

  • Spa tourism opportunities as strategic sector in aiding recovery from Covid-19: The Spanish model, 2020, published in Tourism and Hospitality Research
  • Metaverse research propositions: Online intermediaries, 2023, published in Tourism Economics
  • Exploring the relevance of Social Exchange Theory in the Middle East: A case study of tourism in Dubai, UAE, 2022, published in International Journal of Tourism Research
  • Business as service? Human Relations and the British interwar management movement, 2022, published in Human Relations
  • Towards wellness? A case study of the profile of tourists visiting a Southern Spanish Spa, 2020, published in International Journal of Spa and Wellness

Collaborations have been an important component of Shaw's research output. Key frequent co-authors include:

  • Mairi Maclean
  • Apostolos Ampountolas
  • Christopher S. Dutt
  • William S. Harvey
  • Charles Harvey

The body of work with these collaborators often intersects areas such as organizational behavior, management practices, and tourism studies, contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of these fields.

Best Publications

  • Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism and Tourism Spaces

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: Examples from the hotel industry

    Gareth Shaw;Adrian R. Bailey;Allan L. Williams

  • Understanding small firms in tourism: a perspective on research trends and challenges.

    Rhodri Thomas;Gareth Shaw;Stephen J. Page

  • Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • 'A holiday is a holiday': practicing sustainability, home and away

    Stewart Barr;Gareth Shaw;Tim Coles;Jan Prillwitz

  • INTERNATIONALIZATION AND INNOVATION IN TOURISM

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

  • Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey

    Gareth Shaw;Tim Coles

  • Tourist group holiday decision-making and behaviour: the influence of children.

    Paul R Thornton;Gareth Shaw;Allan M Williams

  • Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis

    Dennis Wheeler;Gareth Shaw;Stewart Barr

  • Entrepreneurship, Small Business Culture and Tourism Development

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M Williams

  • From lifestyle consumption to lifestyle production: changing patterns of tourism entrepreneurship.

    Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • From Tourist to Tourism Entrepreneur, from Consumption to Production: Evidence from Cornwall, England

    A M Williams;G Shaw;J Greenwood

  • ‘Helping People Make Better Choices’: Exploring the behaviour change agenda for environmental sustainability

    Stewart Barr;Andrew Gilg;Gareth Shaw

  • The role of social media as a distribution channel for promoting pricing strategies

    Apostolos Ampountolas;Gareth Shaw;Simon James

  • Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away

    Stewart Barr;Gareth Shaw;Tim Coles

  • Tourism and economic development : Western European experiences

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

  • Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945–60

    Gareth Shaw;Louise Curth;Andrew Alexander

  • Citizens, consumers and sustainability: (Re)Framing environmental practice in an age of climate change

    Stewart Barr;Andrew Gilg;Gareth Shaw

  • Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective

    Erlet Cater;Gareth Shaw;Allan M. Williams

  • Tourism, Geography of

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

  • Building a new heritage - tourism, culture and identity in the New Europe: G J Ashworth and P J Larkham (eds) Routledge, London, 1994, 278 pp, £40.00

    Gareth Shaw

  • Tourism Research A Perspective

    Allan M. Williams;Gareth Shaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Stewart Barr
Stewart Barr University of Exeter

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