Gareth Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gareth Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gareth |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5981-5595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Xi–Biden Summit coverage: Chinese media frames for global and domestic readers
Situated against the recent tumultuous backdrop of Sino–U.S. relations, this study examines the coverage of the November 2023 Xi–Biden Summit by the People’s Daily and China Daily . As authoritative, national-level media outlets reflecting party policies, the People’s Daily , published in Chinese, primarily caters to a domestic audience, while China Daily , in English, targets an international readership. Using framing analysis grounded in agenda…
English-Language Media Coverage of the Two Olympics Under the Threat of the Pandemic
The paper aims to reveal how the two Olympic Games (the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July 2021 and the Beijing Winter Olympics in January 2022) were reported, that is, if, how, and why sentiment expressed towards the two hosting countries differs, and the implications. We conducted a study of 108 articles from six English-language news media publications to uncover repeated patterns of representations that may lead readers to form a prefer…
Becoming’ a global leader: China’s evolving official media discourse in Xi’s New Era
This paper investigates the discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from China Global Television Network’s YouTube channel. As China’s key diplomatic initiative, the BRI discourses provide us rich resources to understand how China wants the international community to see it, and how it intends to lead the world. The paper finds that China has developed a much clearer vision and more consistent discourse on the world order and its role in…
Business as service? Human Relations and the British interwar management movement
To what extent should business have an implication of service when its fundamental purpose is profit-seeking? We explore this issue through a contextually informed reappraisal of British interwar management thinking (1918–1939), drawing on rich archival material concerning the Rowntree business lectures and management research groups. Whereas existing literature is framed around scientific management versus human relations schools, we find a thir…
Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement
Much thought has been accorded to the evolving nature of business history. It is only relatively recently, however, that attempts have been made to articulate methodological issues in a more epistemologically explicit and reflexive fashion. This article contributes to this burgeoning agenda by examining the methodology underpinning an intensive archival study of the British interwar management movement (1918–1939), a major force in British manage…
The UK media coverage of China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak
This article addresses one question: how is the coronavirus outbreak and its management in China reported in the UK media in general, and on the Internet in particular? It does so by examining how the online versions of the BBC, the Guardian and the Daily Mail reported on the coronavirus outbreak in China, but more importantly, on how China handled it, over a 20-week timeframe. The sentiment analysis and thematic analysis show that although the s…
Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: Queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship
Owing to China's austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-funded Chinese film industry has become necessary for these directors to commit their narratives to film, but without approval of China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Telev…
Heritage, Screen and Literary Tourism
This book examines the main issues and concepts relating to heritage, screen and literary tourism (HSLT) and analyses the demand and supply of HSLT within the frameworks provided by service-dominant logic and value creation to enable a critical perspective on how HSLT tourist experiences are created, produced and shaped
Work values in tourism: Past, present and future
Tourism, Geography of
Migration and Innovation at the Bottom End: Understanding the Role of Migrant Managers in Small Hotels in the Global City
The paper examines the role of international migration and innovation in small hotels through a comparative study of migrant and non-migrant owners and managers in London hotels. The findings show the dependence of the sector on international managers whose contribution to innovation is understood in relation to the global environment of London, sectoral particularities and complex processes of mobility amongst both migrant and non-migrant manage…
Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away
Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: Examples from the hotel industry
Internationalization and innovation in tourism
Sustainable Lifestyles: Sites, Practices, and Policy
Proenvironmental behaviour change remains a high priority for many governments and agencies and there are now numerous programmes aimed at encouraging citizens to adopt sustainable forms of living. However, although programmes for addressing behaviour change in and around the home are well developed, there has been significantly less attention paid to activities beyond this site of practice. This is despite the environmental implications of consu…
Young Holidaymakers in Groups: Insights on Decision-making and Tourist Behaviour Among University Students
While holiday behaviours among individual young people have been frequently studied, those among members of groups have been largely overlooked. This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the determinants of multi-faceted holiday decisions made within travel parties of young people. The findings, which are derived from a quantitative analysis of a questionnaire survey and qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, revealed …
Consumer Behaviour and the Life Course: Shopper Reactions to Self-Service Grocery Shops and Supermarkets in England c. 1947-75
We examine the development of self-service grocery shopping from a consumer perspective. Using qualitative data gathered through a nationwide biographical survey and oral histories, it was possible to go beyond contemporary market surveys which pay insufficient attention to shopping as a socially and culturally embedded practice. We use the conceptual framework of the life course to demonstrate how grocery shopping is a complex activity, in which…
Future play: Tourism, recreation and land use
Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda
British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution
This article examines the early stages of the self-service and supermarket innovations in post-war Britain. It does so in the context of co-operative retailers and in particular investigates both why such organizations were pre-eminent in the adoption of self-service as well as how they interpreted the innovation. These ideas are framed within a more general discussion of the ‘models’ of retail innovation and especially the notion of format innov…
Retail Innovation and Shopping Practices: Consumers' Reactions to Self-Service Retailing
In this paper we address the related issues of retail innovation, changing shopping practices, and shopping geographies. We do so in relation to the spread of self-service grocery stores, and particularly the supermarket, in the postwar retail environment of Britain (1950-70), arguing that this juncture provides a propitious opportunity to study the relationship between changing practices of retailing and consumption. We highlight shoppers' selec…
Managing Coastal Tourism Resorts: A Global Perspective
Transferring a Retail Innovation: The Early Stages of Supermarket Development in Post-War Britain
Article Transferring a Retail Innovation: The Early Stages of Supermarket Development in Post-War Britain was published on December 1, 2005 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 46, issue 2)
Promoting Retail Innovation: Knowledge Flows during the Emergence of Self-Service and Supermarket Retailing in Britain
The notion of innovation underpins many studies of change within the literatures of retail management and the new retail geography. However, conceptualisation of the innovation process within retailing has remained surprisingly partial, with insufficient attention being given to the processes of knowledge management and learning within the firm. The authors illustrate the importance of such themes by reference to the key organisational and techno…
Tourism and Tourism Spaces
'Tourism and Tourism Spaces' examines how tourists and tourism relate to different spaces at different levels, from the local to global. The authors use the perspectives of production regulation & competition, consumption & commodification, & the construction of tourist places & spaces
Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda
Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective
Tourist group holiday decision-making and behaviour: The influence of children
Aspects of service-dominant logic and its implications for tourism management: Examples from the hotel industry
Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: A preliminary survey
Internationalization and innovation in tourism
Selling Self-Service and the Supermarket: The Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945–60
This article explores the early origins and growth of the supermarket in Britain. In doing so, it focuses on a number of themes, including the transfer of ideas of selling from America, and how such ideas were modified by the conditions operating in early post-war Britain. Within this context, emphasis is given to the role of individuals, commercial associations and the state in promoting the benefits of self-service. The research is based on a d…
Cyberspace and gay rights in a digital China: Queer documentary filmmaking under state censorship
Owing to China's austere censorship regulations on film media, directors of films and documentaries engaging with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes have struggled to bring their work to domestic attention. Working outside of the state-funded Chinese film industry has become necessary for these directors to commit their narratives to film, but without approval of China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Telev…
Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour: A British perspective
Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour are important but somewhat neglected topics in the geography of tourism. This paper provides the first review of British material on these topics and attempts to position the contributions of geographers within a wider multidisciplinary framework. It considers tourist motivation and decision-making along with the impact that tourists have on local communities
British co-operative societies as retail innovators: Interpreting the early stages of the self-service revolution
This article examines the early stages of the self-service and supermarket innovations in post-war Britain. It does so in the context of co-operative retailers and in particular investigates both why such organizations were pre-eminent in the adoption of self-service as well as how they interpreted the innovation. These ideas are framed within a more general discussion of the ‘models’ of retail innovation and especially the notion of format innov…
Future play: Tourism, recreation and land use
The geography of tourism production: Uneven disciplinary development
Production has been a relatively neglected area of research within tourism, in contrast to the notable advances made in adjoining disciplines such as economic geography. A review of the trajectory of tourism development in the UK provides insights into how changes in consumption, in scale and ownership, and in the geographical organization of production are leading to new supply-side structures. There have been attempts to advance theoretical und…
Promoting Retail Innovation: Knowledge Flows during the Emergence of Self-Service and Supermarket Retailing in Britain
The notion of innovation underpins many studies of change within the literatures of retail management and the new retail geography. However, conceptualisation of the innovation process within retailing has remained surprisingly partial, with insufficient attention being given to the processes of knowledge management and learning within the firm. The authors illustrate the importance of such themes by reference to the key organisational and techno…
The Evolving Culture of Retailer Regulation and the Failure of the 'Balfour Bill' in Interwar Britain
The authors explore the interactions between retailer conflict, types of competition, and retail regulation. Their study is set within the wider debates surrounding the attempts to retheorise retail geography, and, more specifically, in the context of retail competition within interwar Britain. The specific focus is on the attempts to control large-scale corporate retailing, and the failure of such strategies. The authors also draw on comparisons…
Structural and Spatial Trends in British Retailing: The Importance of Firm-Level Studies
This volume considers the emergence and development of modern retailing from an historical and management perspective in the period 1750-1950
Retail Patterns in the Victorian City
The paper draws attention to the structure and changing nature of retail patterns in Victorian cities. By way of introduction a brief consideration is given to the relationships between retail change and aspects of urban growth. In addition, a number of important themes are investigated together with an attempt to provide a conceptual framework to explain urban retail developments. This conceptual base proposes more flexible notions of retail loc…
Methodological Openness in Business History Research: Looking Afresh at the British Interwar Management Movement
Much thought has been accorded to the evolving nature of business history. It is only relatively recently, however, that attempts have been made to articulate methodological issues in a more epistemologically explicit and reflexive fashion. This article contributes to this burgeoning agenda by examining the methodology underpinning an intensive archival study of the British interwar management movement (1918–1939), a major force in British manage…
Policy implementation and tourism in the UK
Business as service? Human Relations and the British interwar management movement
To what extent should business have an implication of service when its fundamental purpose is profit-seeking? We explore this issue through a contextually informed reappraisal of British interwar management thinking (1918–1939), drawing on rich archival material concerning the Rowntree business lectures and management research groups. Whereas existing literature is framed around scientific management versus human relations schools, we find a thir…
Migration and Innovation at the Bottom End: Understanding the Role of Migrant Managers in Small Hotels in the Global City
The paper examines the role of international migration and innovation in small hotels through a comparative study of migrant and non-migrant owners and managers in London hotels. The findings show the dependence of the sector on international managers whose contribution to innovation is understood in relation to the global environment of London, sectoral particularities and complex processes of mobility amongst both migrant and non-migrant manage…
Sustainable Lifestyles: Sites, Practices, and Policy
Proenvironmental behaviour change remains a high priority for many governments and agencies and there are now numerous programmes aimed at encouraging citizens to adopt sustainable forms of living. However, although programmes for addressing behaviour change in and around the home are well developed, there has been significantly less attention paid to activities beyond this site of practice. This is despite the environmental implications of consu…
Retail Innovation and Shopping Practices: Consumers' Reactions to Self-Service Retailing
In this paper we address the related issues of retail innovation, changing shopping practices, and shopping geographies. We do so in relation to the spread of self-service grocery stores, and particularly the supermarket, in the postwar retail environment of Britain (1950-70), arguing that this juncture provides a propitious opportunity to study the relationship between changing practices of retailing and consumption. We highlight shoppers' selec…
Young Holidaymakers in Groups: Insights on Decision-making and Tourist Behaviour Among University Students
While holiday behaviours among individual young people have been frequently studied, those among members of groups have been largely overlooked. This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the determinants of multi-faceted holiday decisions made within travel parties of young people. The findings, which are derived from a quantitative analysis of a questionnaire survey and qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, revealed …
Consumer Behaviour and the Life Course: Shopper Reactions to Self-Service Grocery Shops and Supermarkets in England c. 1947-75
We examine the development of self-service grocery shopping from a consumer perspective. Using qualitative data gathered through a nationwide biographical survey and oral histories, it was possible to go beyond contemporary market surveys which pay insufficient attention to shopping as a socially and culturally embedded practice. We use the conceptual framework of the life course to demonstrate how grocery shopping is a complex activity, in which…
Tourism Research: A Perspective
Retail Patterns in the Victorian City
The paper draws attention to the structure and changing nature of retail patterns in Victorian cities. By way of introduction a brief consideration is given to the relationships between retail change and aspects of urban growth. In addition, a number of important themes are investigated together with an attempt to provide a conceptual framework to explain urban retail developments. This conceptual base proposes more flexible notions of retail loc…
Directories as sources in urban history: A review of British and Canadian material
Directories have had a somewhat chequered history, both in terms of their original production, and also in their subsequent use as sources of information. To a large extent these two aspects are closely related, as is illustrated by the reluctance of some urban historians to use directories because of doubts over their reliability. A further factor determining the extent to which directories have been utilized, has been the availability of other …
Institutional forces and retail change: A case study of Metropolitan Toronto
Tourism and economic development: Policy implications from a case study of Cornwall
Tourism and Economic Development: Western European Experiences
Tourism and development - introduction, Allan M. Williams and Gareth Shaw Western European tourism in perspective, Allan M. Williams and Gareth Shaw Spain - the phenomenon of mass tourism, Manuel Valenzuela Italy - multi-faceted trourism, Russell King Greece - prospects and contradictions of tourism in the 1980s, Lila Leonidou Portugal - market segmentation and regional specialization, Jim Lewis and Allan M. Williams Switzerland - structural chan…
Urban Historical Geography: Recent Progress in Britain and Germany
Policy implementation and tourism in the UK
UK visitor survey
Urban Historical Geography: Recent Progress in Britain and Germany
The Directories of London, 1677-1977
Tourism and Tourist Cultures in Europe: A Review of Recent Research
Tourism Research: A Perspective
Building a new heritage - tourism, culture and identity in the New Europe
Tourism and Regional Development: Polarization and New Forms of Production in the United Kingdom
The role of tourism in uneven regional development is under‐researched. This article considers three conceptual issues ‐ spatial and temporal polarization, and restructuring ‐ which have important implications for uneven regional development. These are then investigated empirically in a case study of the UK, using indicators of tourism demand and of employment. One of the principal findings is that the restructuring and the internationalization o…
Directories as Elements of Town Life: The Case of National Socialist Germany
The position of town directories as sources in urban geography is discussed here. Traditionally attention has focused on their use in studies of social or commercial change in urban environments, and making use of the extensive listings of names and addresses contained therein. They are, however, far more versatile sources than this and provide excellent information on political and cultural change. Directories were often compiled not just with a…
Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective
Tourist group holiday decision-making and behaviour: The influence of children
Structural and Spatial Trends in British Retailing: The Importance of Firm-Level Studies
This volume considers the emergence and development of modern retailing from an historical and management perspective in the period 1750-1950
Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour: A British perspective
Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour are important but somewhat neglected topics in the geography of tourism. This paper provides the first review of British material on these topics and attempts to position the contributions of geographers within a wider multidisciplinary framework. It considers tourist motivation and decision-making along with the impact that tourists have on local communities
The geography of tourism production: Uneven disciplinary development
Production has been a relatively neglected area of research within tourism, in contrast to the notable advances made in adjoining disciplines such as economic geography. A review of the trajectory of tourism development in the UK provides insights into how changes in consumption, in scale and ownership, and in the geographical organization of production are leading to new supply-side structures. There have been attempts to advance theoretical und…
The Evolving Culture of Retailer Regulation and the Failure of the 'Balfour Bill' in Interwar Britain
The authors explore the interactions between retailer conflict, types of competition, and retail regulation. Their study is set within the wider debates surrounding the attempts to retheorise retail geography, and, more specifically, in the context of retail competition within interwar Britain. The specific focus is on the attempts to control large-scale corporate retailing, and the failure of such strategies. The authors also draw on comparisons…
Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective
Edge of Empire: Transnationalism and identity in Wellington, New Zealand, ca . 1860- ca . 1920
Aspects of transnationalism and identity in the period from the 1860s to the mid 1920s, which set in motion a form of globalization related to empire, are focused upon. The notion of 'regimes of representation' is adapted as a broad conceptual framework for exploring the role of colonial directories in establishing the identity of metropolitan commercial culture in Wellington, New Zealand. This outpost of empire is examined through a detailed ana…
Tourism and Tourism Spaces
'Tourism and Tourism Spaces' examines how tourists and tourism relate to different spaces at different levels, from the local to global. The authors use the perspectives of production regulation & competition, consumption & commodification, & the construction of tourist places & spaces
Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: A preliminary survey
Business (30 works) · Geography (29 works) · Political science (28 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Tourism (24 works) · Economics (20 works) · Economic geography (19 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (17 works) · Marketing (17 works) · Regional science (16 works)