Two pieces of research work done by academic staff at IFT have won Emerald Literati Awards. The academics whose work won awards are Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Bavik and Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Fernando Lourenço.
The Emerald Literati Awards are given annually by Emerald Publishing Ltd, a publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals around the world for the past 50 years. The company puts out about 300 academic journals and has published more than 2,500 books and another 1,500 case studies.
Dr. Bavik received an Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Contribution Award for the chapter he contributed to a book in the Emerald Publishing “Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research” series. His chapter, published last year, is called “Identification of Organisational Culture in the Hospitality Industry”. It sets out a new organisational culture scale specifically for the hospitality industry.
The purpose of an Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Contribution Award is to reward an author that has contributed something new and of significant value to the body of knowledge, either in the approach taken or in the subject matter. The editors of book series put out by Emerald Publishing may nominate for the award 1 chapter they have published in the preceding year.
Dr. Lourenço was a recipient of an Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award for a research paper published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. He is a co-author of the paper, called “Marketing in SMEs: a ‘4Ps’ self-branding model”. The other co-authors are Dr. Sheilagh Mary Resnick of Nottingham Trent University in Britain, and Dr. Ranis Cheng and Dr. Mike Simpson of the University of Sheffield, also in Britain. The paper looks at the extent to which conventional marketing theory and practice can be applied in small- and medium-sized enterprises, and considers how owner-managers of small businesses perceive their role in marketing.
The editors of Emerald Publishing journals may nominate for an Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award 1 paper published in each journal in the preceding year, and 3 papers they consider worthy of being highly commended. The winning pieces of work are chosen by eminent academics, and the authors receive the honour of recognition that their work is among the most impressive seen by the judges in the course of the year.
The Emerald Literati Awards are in their 24th year. They are intended to celebrate and reward outstanding contributions by authors and reviewers to scholarly research. The criteria used to judge the work nominated for the awards include its international relevance, its diversity, the degree of encouragement it gives to applied research and its commitment to scholarship of high quality.
For more:
– “Identification of Organisational Culture in the Hospitality Industry”, by Ali Bavik: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S1871-317320160000012015
– “Marketing in SMEs: a ‘4Ps’ self-branding model”, by Sheilagh Mary Resnick, Ranis Cheng, Mike Simpson and Fernando Lourenço: http://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2014-0139
