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

by Rhodri Thomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319957228
• ISBN13: 9783319957227
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"