Purpose: This study aims to address how the social structure of the hospitality management field has evolved from 1960 to 2016. Design/methodology/approach: The informal social structure of the hospitality management literature was analyzed by collecting authorship data from seven hospitality...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore gender disparities in the production of tourism knowledge with particular reference to academic journals. Design/methodology/approach: Authorship and co-authorship analyses were conducted of data extracted from articles and research notes published between...

Purpose: This study introduces a new approach, called the social structure approach, for ranking academic journals by focusing on hospitality and tourism journals; and a hybrid metric, including the combination of the journal impact factor via citations and a social network metric, called the...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the social structure of strategic management research in the hospitality management field to determine whether a strong social structure is needed and, if so, how this structure can be enriched within the hospitality field. Design/methodology/approach: A...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an extensive analysis of contributions to scholarly research on decision tools. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review was used to collect data from 47 articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals between 1980 and...