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Business and Management
UK
2024

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Business and Management

D-Index
66
Citations
15774
World Ranking
387
National Ranking
55

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Tom Baum is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and business-related disciplines, with significant contributions to the fields of sociology, political science, tourism, leisure and hospitality management, marketing, demography, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics broadly grouped around hospitality and tourism education, diverse aspects of tourism research, tourism volunteerism and development, entrepreneurship studies, gender diversity and inequality, sharing economy and platforms, and issues related to sex work.

The following recent papers exemplify their research contributions:

  • Hospitality, tourism, human rights and the impact of COVID-19 (2020, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management)
  • COVID-19's impact on the hospitality workforce - new crisis or amplification of the norm? (2020, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management)

Tom Baum's frequent collaborators include Shelagh Mooney, Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Richard Robinson, David Solnet, and Dennis Nickson, each having coauthored multiple works with them.

Their publications are predominantly featured in the following academic journals:

  • International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
  • Development Southern Africa
  • Tourism Review
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Business Research

Tom Baum's expertise bridges social sciences with business, management, and accounting, supported by a considerable number of publications focusing on hospitality and tourism education and related subfields.

Best Publications

  • Human resources in tourism: still waiting for change

    T.G. Baum

  • An investigation of employees’ job satisfaction: the case of hotels in Hong Kong

    Terry Lam;Hanqin Zhang;Tom Baum

  • Hospitality, tourism, human rights and the impact of COVID-19

    Tom Baum;Nguyen Thi Thanh Hai

  • COVID-19's impact on the hospitality workforce - new crisis or amplification of the norm?

    Tom Baum;Shelagh K.K. Mooney;Richard N.S. Robinson;David Solnet

  • Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change? – A 2015 reprise

    Thomas Baum

  • Seasonality in tourism

    Tom Baum;Svend Lundtorp

  • Responses to seasonality: the experiences of peripheral destinations.

    Tom Baum;Laura Hagen

  • Skills and training for the hospitality sector: a review of issues

    Tom Baum

  • Tourism education: policy versus practice

    Vanessa A. Amoah;Tom Baum

  • Ecotourists' perception of ecotourism experience in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia

    Jennifer Kim Lian Chan;Tom Baum

  • Managing Human Resources in the European Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Strategic Approach

    Tom Baum

  • Island tourism: management principles and practice.

    Michael V. Conlin;Tom Baum

  • Tourism workforce research: A review, taxonomy and agenda

    Thom Baum;Anna Kralj;Richard N.S. Robinson;David J. Solnet

  • Human resource management for tourism hospitality and leisure

    T. Baum

  • Sustaining precarity: critically examining tourism and employment.

    Richard N.S. Robinson;Antje Martins;David Solnet;Tom Baum

  • HRD in tourism: a role for government?

    Tom Baum;Edith Szivas

  • Policy dimensions of human resource management in the tourism and hospitality industries

    Tom Baum;Vanessa Amoah;Sheryl Spivack

  • Taking the Exit Route: Extending the Tourism Area Life Cycle Model

    Tom Baum

  • THE MOBILITIES OF HOSPITALITY WORK: AN EXPLORATION OF ISSUES AND DEBATES

    Tara Duncan;David Scott;Thomas Baum

  • Sustainability and the Tourism and Hospitality Workforce: A Thematic Analysis

    Thomas Baum;Catherine Cheung;Haiyan Kong;Anna Kralj

  • Tourism: principles and practice. 3rd ed

    Thomas Baum;B. Paul;Christine Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

David Solnet
David Solnet University of Queensland
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde
Alison Morrison
Alison Morrison William Angliss Institute
Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi Temple University
Brent W. Ritchie
Brent W. Ritchie University of Queensland
Cathy H.C. Hsu
Cathy H.C. Hsu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Donald Getz
Donald Getz University of Calgary
Christian M. Rogerson
Christian M. Rogerson University of Johannesburg
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Victor J. Callan
Victor J. Callan University of Queensland

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