Academic foundations of hospitality management research with an emerging country focus: A citation and co-citation analysis. (February 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Köseoglu, Mehmet Ali; Sehitoglu, Yasin; Craft, Jana
• Is Part Of: International journal of hospitality management. Volume 45(2015)
• Page Start: 130
• Page End: 144
• Publication Date: 2015-02
• Subjects: Hospitality -- Tourism -- Bibliometric analysis -- Citation -- Co-citation -- Turkey -- Developing country; Hotel management -- Periodicals; Restaurant management -- Periodicals; Food service management -- Periodicals; Hôtels -- Gestion -- Périodiques; Restaurants -- Gestion -- Périodiques; Services alimentaires -- Gestion -- Périodiques; Food service management; Hotel management; Restaurant management; Periodicals; 647.94
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2014.12.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0278-4319

Abstract

Abstract: This study explores the academic foundations of hospitality management research within an emerging country using bibliometric analysis – citation and co-citation analysis. Turkey was chosen as a starting point to assess existing research within an emerging country framework because of the large impact of tourism and hospitality (T/H) on the economy and increasing amount of academic research in the field. A total of 76 hospitality management research articles from 1992 to 2013 were found in leading international T/H journals indexed by SSCI. Findings showed that over one-half of the research comes from publications engaging outside of the T/H field. Patterns emerged between T/H and management, marketing and psychology fields that indicated evolving maturity in the research. An intense dependency on supporting journals for substantiation existed and intra-disciplinary maturity was weak, but growing. Accordingly, referring to the findings related to the study, the article discusses limitations of the study and future steps.