Albert Nsom Kimbu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3449239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Nsom Kimbu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert Nsom |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimbu |
| SIGNATURE | KIMBU A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8505-6705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Co-creating equitable, diverse and inclusive tourism: From race and ethnicity to a broader Edib research agenda
Equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (EDIB) are central, yet contested, concerns within tourism research. Race and ethnicity are foundational dimensions of this broader agenda, but remain under-theorised. Drawing on a systematic review of 287 peer-reviewed articles published across 85 journals over five decades, this article traces the field’s evolution from early marginality- and ethnicity-based explanations to more recent engagements wit…
Relational fragmentation in tourism entrepreneurial ecosystems: Linking configurations, dynamics, and outcomes
Unpacking women's tourism work in a sanctioned destination
This study examines how international economic sanctions reshape women's work and livelihoods in Iran's tourism sector through the theoretical lens of feminist political economy. Drawing on interviews conducted in two phases around 2018 and again in 2024, the study unveils how sanction pressures operate across macro, meso , and micro levels, giving rise to three interrelated processes: gendered economic scarring , whereby sanctions deepen women's…
‘ Sometimes it’s as if I don’t exist’: Workplace inclusion of employees with disability in emerging destinations
Inclusion of employees with disability is crucial to maximising work productivity of all segments of employees. However, few studies have examined the inclusion experiences of employees with disability in tourism firms, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Using social justice theory, this study explores the inclusion experiences of employees with disability in the tourism sector in Ghana based on interviews with 17 employees with disability. The …
A theory of change approach to analysing tourism social entrepreneurship research
This paper advances a Theory of Change (ToC)-based framework to assess the fragmented literature on Tourism Social Entrepreneurship (TSE), an emerging field centred on inclusive, place-based social transformation through tourism. Moving beyond conventional systematic literature reviews, it proposes a five-step, conceptually guided approach to assess how existing studies contribute to the impact pathway: from context and inputs to outputs, outcome…
Plus size people can and will travel too: Body positivity in travel and leisure
The tourism sector is increasingly moving towards equality, diversity, and inclusion, yet a systematic issue within the sector that largely hinders and excludes non-conforming, alternative bodies. Using a netnographic research approach framed by a poststructuralist perspective, this paper explores the body positive travel and leisure experiences of TikTok content creators, critically engaging with the narratives and discourses in circulation. The…
Resilience in uncertainty: The impact of coping strategies on tourism entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being in sub-Saharan Africa
Surviving crisis: Building tourism entrepreneurial resilience as a woman in a sanctions-ravaged destination
Research on gender-related challenges within tourism entrepreneurship is expanding; however, scant attention has been paid to how women entrepreneurs build resilience during sustained periods of politico-economic crisis. This knowledge gap is particularly salient in developing countries, like Iran, which have endured prolonged international sanctions and subsequent economic hardship, where women also contend with the distinct obstacles of a ‘reli…
Tourism, consent, and resistance: A Gramscian lens
This study examines how hegemonic ideologies shape women's participation in tourism in a theocracy. Applying Gramsci's theory of hegemony and a critical poststructural feminist lens, it analyses how Iran's politico-religious structures influence women's roles, employment, and mobility in tourism. Qualitative findings reveal strategies of compliance, negotiation, and resistance expressed through entrepreneurship, networking, and workplace practice…
Redirecting Slack Resources to Social and Environmental Issues: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tourism Firms Post-Crisis
Drawing on the cognitive micro-foundations of institutional theory, attention-based view, stakeholder salience framework, and threat-rigidity hypothesis, this study fills key gaps in our understanding of how tourism firms allocate their slack resources to social and environmental issues during crises. Our model was tested using survey data collected from the managers of tourism firms in Egypt and the UK after the last wave of the Covid-19 pandemi…
Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment
Grounded on the concept of ethnicity, this paper explores the travel consumption and decision-making behaviors of ethnic minority travelers through the lens of psychological empowerment. Employing a quantitative-dominant concurrent nested mixed-methods approach, 951 surveys (404 white and 547 ethnic minority participants), 6 focus groups, and 10 semi-structured interviews (with ethnic minority travelers) were conducted in the UK. The findings rev…
A theoretical model of user acceptance of blockchain-based peer-to-peer accommodation
Blockchain could disrupt traditional accommodation services by enabling safe, decentralised direct connections between guests and hosts. However, how users will accept and use blockchain-based services in tourism and hospitality remains unascertained. This study explores users’ perceptions of a blockchain-based peer-to-peer accommodation system and sets a theoretical basis to conceptualise the drivers of the acceptability of such a system. By usi…
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: A gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities
Market economies are often characterised by a failure to self-regulate. One of the most enduring of these ‘market failures’ is the ability to maximise the entrepreneurial potential to generate growth. Within this context, gender remains one of, and probably, the most prevalent dimension of this perceived failure to maximise entrepreneurial potential. Feminist political economy provides a starting point for understanding this reproduction of inequ…
Decentralising Airbnb: Testing the acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems
This study employs a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach to investigate users' perspectives and acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems. The suggested model explains how users’ perceptions of specific features of such concepts influence acceptance in ways that existing theories like TPB, TAM, or UTAUT cannot. The results revealed that user empowerment was the most significant factor influencing acceptance. Furthermore,…
Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation
The outcomes of volunteer tourism have rarely evaluated, and the sustainable practices, such as equality within this sector, are questionable. Extant research has indicated that miscommunication and poor volunteer placement management can lead to ineffectiveness and negative experiences for stakeholders such as host project staff and volunteers. Collaborative relations between the main stakeholders at a local level were evaluated and deconstructe…
Gender, entrepreneurship and social policy in tourism: Tying the Knot
This article, and the special issue, seek to unpack the gendered nature of entrepreneurial pathways, specifically in relation to the role of social policies. We achieve this aim by first conceptualising gender, entrepreneurship, and social policy, to highlight the need to generate a stronger research agenda on the role of social policy within gender and tourism entrepreneurship research. We next outline an overarching framework for delineating th…
Crisis-induced financial anxiety, social support, socio-psychological wellbeing, and commitment to work in the tourism sector
Understanding the causal influence of financial anxiety on future work commitment with social support and socio-psychological wellbeing as mediators amongst crisis-induced redundant tourism employees remains limited. Using data collected from 547 COVID-19-induced redundant tourism employees, this paper examines the influence of financial anxiety on future work commitment with social support and socio-psychological wellbeing as mediators. The find…
Recontextualising the determinants of external CSR in the services industry: A cross-cultural study
Although the relationship between institutional pressures and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been well studied, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions are not well understood. To remedy these gaps, we draw on institutional theory and the literature on organisational sensemaking, stakeholder salience and the resource-based view of the firm. We test our conceptual model using survey data from 442 managers of hospitality and to…
Creamy and seductive’: Gender surveillance in flight attendant work
Despite attempts by airlines and the wider tourism industry to cultivate more diverse working environments, gendered practices and pressures persist. A feminist poststructuralist approach involving interviews with flight attendants from three airlines is used to examine how airlines attempt to construct the ideal aesthetic flight attendant, and how individual workers may resist these gendered practices through their work. The findings demonstrate…
Collaborations in volunteer tourism
Despite Volunteer Tourism (VT) being firmly rooted in sustainability, there is a lack of detailed understanding of how the VT supply chain influences sustainability. Specifically, while recent analytical frameworks evaluating relations in the VT supply chain have detected power imbalances amongst the main stakeholders, little is known about how and why the different active components of VT stakeholders’ relations influence sustainability. Based o…
Sustainability through the tourism entrepreneurship journey: A gender perspective
Women’s tourism entrepreneurship has been identified as fundamental to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of both ‘gender equality’ and ‘decent growth and economic growth’ but neither entrepreneurship nor sustainability are gender neutral in the tourism industry. Therefore, further research is required into how gender influences sustainable entrepreneurship, providing insights for tourism entrepreneurship policy. In response to a prev…
Applying the Hollywood scriptwriting formula to destination branding
This paper examines the prospects of applying the Hollywood scriptwriting formula to a destination transforming a range of potentially disconnected tourist destination experiences into a more immersive, interrelated narrative and thereby generating a cohesive destination brand that has an emotional and personal bond with tourists. A step-by-step conceptual model, based on Hollywood’s scriptwriting formula, is developed, contextualised and employe…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
Women entrepreneurship orientation, networks and firm performance in the tourism industry in resource-scarce contexts
Drawing on network theory, this study examines how the entrepreneurship orientation (EO)-performance nexus is intermediated by networks firms establish with government agencies, suppliers, and resource acquisition. Structural equation modelling is used to test the model on a sample of 556 women tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria. Findings indicate that EO positively influences firms’ social ties, resource acquisition, and performance. The…
Reshaping gender in airline employment
Women as vectors of social entrepreneurship
Centralised Decentralisation of Tourism Development: A Network Perspective
Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship
Backpackers’ perceived risks towards smartphone usage and risk reduction strategies: A mixed methods study
201902 bcma
Guanxi influences on women intrapreneurship
Surviving crisis: Building tourism entrepreneurial resilience as a woman in a sanctions-ravaged destination
Research on gender-related challenges within tourism entrepreneurship is expanding; however, scant attention has been paid to how women entrepreneurs build resilience during sustained periods of politico-economic crisis. This knowledge gap is particularly salient in developing countries, like Iran, which have endured prolonged international sanctions and subsequent economic hardship, where women also contend with the distinct obstacles of a ‘reli…
Women entrepreneurship orientation, networks and firm performance in the tourism industry in resource-scarce contexts
Drawing on network theory, this study examines how the entrepreneurship orientation (EO)-performance nexus is intermediated by networks firms establish with government agencies, suppliers, and resource acquisition. Structural equation modelling is used to test the model on a sample of 556 women tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria. Findings indicate that EO positively influences firms’ social ties, resource acquisition, and performance. The…
Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation
Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao
Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard “family and friends”, and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino migrant workers experienced a lack of time-off and long working hours (structural leisure constraints…
Recontextualising the determinants of external CSR in the services industry: A cross-cultural study
Although the relationship between institutional pressures and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been well studied, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions are not well understood. To remedy these gaps, we draw on institutional theory and the literature on organisational sensemaking, stakeholder salience and the resource-based view of the firm. We test our conceptual model using survey data from 442 managers of hospitality and to…
Gender, entrepreneurship and social policy in tourism: Tying the Knot
This article, and the special issue, seek to unpack the gendered nature of entrepreneurial pathways, specifically in relation to the role of social policies. We achieve this aim by first conceptualising gender, entrepreneurship, and social policy, to highlight the need to generate a stronger research agenda on the role of social policy within gender and tourism entrepreneurship research. We next outline an overarching framework for delineating th…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
Reshaping gender in airline employment
Recontextualising gender in entrepreneurial leadership
Drawing on the literature examining the nexus between gender, entrepreneurial leadership and entrepreneurial performance, this article critically explores a framework for analysing the role of gender in shaping entrepreneurial performance and leadership in tourism firms in a non-western context. Utilising a poststructural feminist lens that challenges normative accounts of entrepreneurial leadership practices, a qualitative analysis of interview …
Gendered Instagram representations in the aviation industry
Air transport and tourism are interdependent systems wherein idealized gender performances are shaped by organizational cultures and particular commercial interests that have implications for gendered representations. Organizations use social media spaces to influence public perceptions, yet in doing so they may (re)construct hegemonic notions pertaining to images of masculinity and femininity. This paper utilizes a feminist poststructuralist app…
Decentralising Airbnb: Testing the acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems
This study employs a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach to investigate users' perspectives and acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems. The suggested model explains how users’ perceptions of specific features of such concepts influence acceptance in ways that existing theories like TPB, TAM, or UTAUT cannot. The results revealed that user empowerment was the most significant factor influencing acceptance. Furthermore,…
Creamy and seductive’: Gender surveillance in flight attendant work
Despite attempts by airlines and the wider tourism industry to cultivate more diverse working environments, gendered practices and pressures persist. A feminist poststructuralist approach involving interviews with flight attendants from three airlines is used to examine how airlines attempt to construct the ideal aesthetic flight attendant, and how individual workers may resist these gendered practices through their work. The findings demonstrate…
Tourism, consent, and resistance: A Gramscian lens
This study examines how hegemonic ideologies shape women's participation in tourism in a theocracy. Applying Gramsci's theory of hegemony and a critical poststructural feminist lens, it analyses how Iran's politico-religious structures influence women's roles, employment, and mobility in tourism. Qualitative findings reveal strategies of compliance, negotiation, and resistance expressed through entrepreneurship, networking, and workplace practice…
Redirecting Slack Resources to Social and Environmental Issues: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Tourism Firms Post-Crisis
Drawing on the cognitive micro-foundations of institutional theory, attention-based view, stakeholder salience framework, and threat-rigidity hypothesis, this study fills key gaps in our understanding of how tourism firms allocate their slack resources to social and environmental issues during crises. Our model was tested using survey data collected from the managers of tourism firms in Egypt and the UK after the last wave of the Covid-19 pandemi…
Understanding the Travel Decision-Making Behaviors of Ethnic Minority Tourists: The Moderating Role of Psychological Empowerment
Grounded on the concept of ethnicity, this paper explores the travel consumption and decision-making behaviors of ethnic minority travelers through the lens of psychological empowerment. Employing a quantitative-dominant concurrent nested mixed-methods approach, 951 surveys (404 white and 547 ethnic minority participants), 6 focus groups, and 10 semi-structured interviews (with ethnic minority travelers) were conducted in the UK. The findings rev…
Attainment of MDGs through tourism in the Central African sub-region: Implications for local economic development in Cameroon
This paper examines the role and contribution of tourism to local economic development and in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals one and seven dealing with extreme poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability in the biodiversity endowed Central African sub-region. The concepts of sustainable tourism development and local economic development (in sub-Saharan Africa) are examined. Through fi eld observations and semi-structu…
Centralised Decentralisation of Tourism Development: A Network Perspective
Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship
Women as vectors of social entrepreneurship
Backpackers: The need for reconceptualisation
Backpackers’ perceived risks towards smartphone usage and risk reduction strategies: A mixed methods study
201902 bcma
Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa
Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao
Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard “family and friends”, and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino migrant workers experienced a lack of time-off and long working hours (structural leisure constraints…
Guanxi influences on women intrapreneurship
Applying the Hollywood scriptwriting formula to destination branding
This paper examines the prospects of applying the Hollywood scriptwriting formula to a destination transforming a range of potentially disconnected tourist destination experiences into a more immersive, interrelated narrative and thereby generating a cohesive destination brand that has an emotional and personal bond with tourists. A step-by-step conceptual model, based on Hollywood’s scriptwriting formula, is developed, contextualised and employe…
Quality of life perspectives for different social groups in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure
While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination and designated World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, where local residents and migrants work and coh…
Women entrepreneurship orientation, networks and firm performance in the tourism industry in resource-scarce contexts
Drawing on network theory, this study examines how the entrepreneurship orientation (EO)-performance nexus is intermediated by networks firms establish with government agencies, suppliers, and resource acquisition. Structural equation modelling is used to test the model on a sample of 556 women tourism entrepreneurs in Ghana and Nigeria. Findings indicate that EO positively influences firms’ social ties, resource acquisition, and performance. The…
Reshaping gender in airline employment
Recontextualising gender in entrepreneurial leadership
Drawing on the literature examining the nexus between gender, entrepreneurial leadership and entrepreneurial performance, this article critically explores a framework for analysing the role of gender in shaping entrepreneurial performance and leadership in tourism firms in a non-western context. Utilising a poststructural feminist lens that challenges normative accounts of entrepreneurial leadership practices, a qualitative analysis of interview …
Gendered Instagram representations in the aviation industry
Air transport and tourism are interdependent systems wherein idealized gender performances are shaped by organizational cultures and particular commercial interests that have implications for gendered representations. Organizations use social media spaces to influence public perceptions, yet in doing so they may (re)construct hegemonic notions pertaining to images of masculinity and femininity. This paper utilizes a feminist poststructuralist app…
Collaborations in volunteer tourism
Despite Volunteer Tourism (VT) being firmly rooted in sustainability, there is a lack of detailed understanding of how the VT supply chain influences sustainability. Specifically, while recent analytical frameworks evaluating relations in the VT supply chain have detected power imbalances amongst the main stakeholders, little is known about how and why the different active components of VT stakeholders’ relations influence sustainability. Based o…
Sustainability through the tourism entrepreneurship journey: A gender perspective
Women’s tourism entrepreneurship has been identified as fundamental to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of both ‘gender equality’ and ‘decent growth and economic growth’ but neither entrepreneurship nor sustainability are gender neutral in the tourism industry. Therefore, further research is required into how gender influences sustainable entrepreneurship, providing insights for tourism entrepreneurship policy. In response to a prev…
Crisis-induced financial anxiety, social support, socio-psychological wellbeing, and commitment to work in the tourism sector
Understanding the causal influence of financial anxiety on future work commitment with social support and socio-psychological wellbeing as mediators amongst crisis-induced redundant tourism employees remains limited. Using data collected from 547 COVID-19-induced redundant tourism employees, this paper examines the influence of financial anxiety on future work commitment with social support and socio-psychological wellbeing as mediators. The find…
Recontextualising the determinants of external CSR in the services industry: A cross-cultural study
Although the relationship between institutional pressures and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been well studied, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions are not well understood. To remedy these gaps, we draw on institutional theory and the literature on organisational sensemaking, stakeholder salience and the resource-based view of the firm. We test our conceptual model using survey data from 442 managers of hospitality and to…
Creamy and seductive’: Gender surveillance in flight attendant work
Despite attempts by airlines and the wider tourism industry to cultivate more diverse working environments, gendered practices and pressures persist. A feminist poststructuralist approach involving interviews with flight attendants from three airlines is used to examine how airlines attempt to construct the ideal aesthetic flight attendant, and how individual workers may resist these gendered practices through their work. The findings demonstrate…
A theoretical model of user acceptance of blockchain-based peer-to-peer accommodation
Blockchain could disrupt traditional accommodation services by enabling safe, decentralised direct connections between guests and hosts. However, how users will accept and use blockchain-based services in tourism and hospitality remains unascertained. This study explores users’ perceptions of a blockchain-based peer-to-peer accommodation system and sets a theoretical basis to conceptualise the drivers of the acceptability of such a system. By usi…
Financing tourism entrepreneurship: A gender perspective on the reproduction of inequalities
Market economies are often characterised by a failure to self-regulate. One of the most enduring of these ‘market failures’ is the ability to maximise the entrepreneurial potential to generate growth. Within this context, gender remains one of, and probably, the most prevalent dimension of this perceived failure to maximise entrepreneurial potential. Feminist political economy provides a starting point for understanding this reproduction of inequ…
Decentralising Airbnb: Testing the acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems
This study employs a sequential exploratory mixed-methods approach to investigate users' perspectives and acceptability of blockchain-based sharing economy systems. The suggested model explains how users’ perceptions of specific features of such concepts influence acceptance in ways that existing theories like TPB, TAM, or UTAUT cannot. The results revealed that user empowerment was the most significant factor influencing acceptance. Furthermore,…
Operationalising sustainability in volunteer tourism by power-sharing with the receiving organisation
The outcomes of volunteer tourism have rarely evaluated, and the sustainable practices, such as equality within this sector, are questionable. Extant research has indicated that miscommunication and poor volunteer placement management can lead to ineffectiveness and negative experiences for stakeholders such as host project staff and volunteers. Collaborative relations between the main stakeholders at a local level were evaluated and deconstructe…
Gender, entrepreneurship and social policy in tourism: Tying the Knot
This article, and the special issue, seek to unpack the gendered nature of entrepreneurial pathways, specifically in relation to the role of social policies. We achieve this aim by first conceptualising gender, entrepreneurship, and social policy, to highlight the need to generate a stronger research agenda on the role of social policy within gender and tourism entrepreneurship research. We next outline an overarching framework for delineating th…
Tourism (30 works) · Political science (25 works) · Business (24 works) · Marketing (21 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (10 works)