This Call for Papers invites your submission for a planned book focusing on case study theory and practice with 30 case study reports in field settings in tourism, hospitality, and leisure behavior. Authors are asked to include a "lessons learned" section at the end of their contributions. Papers 8 to 35 pages in length, double-spaced, in MS-WORD are requested. The objectives for the book include reporting studies using one or more of the many different available methods in case study research (direct research that includes several long trips to field settings; the long interview method; means-end chain research; storytelling research; system dynamics; fuzzy-set QCA; participant observation; forced metaphor elicitation technique; ethnographic decision tree analysis; decision systems analysis; degrees of freedom analysis of competing theories; tipping point and FLAG modeling). The aim is to include contributions applicable from all of these available methods in case study research as well as additional methods.
The
FIELD GUIDE will be published in the
ADVANCES IN CULTURE, TOURISM & HOSPITALITY RESARCH book series (Emerald Publishers). For relevant research theory and practice using case study research methods on ethnographic case study research, see Arch G. Woodside (2010),
CASE STUDY RESEARCH: Theory, Methods and Practice,
Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishers. Submit your tourism, hospitality, or leisure case study report for the
Field Guide project to all three co-editors: Ken Hyde, Auckland University of Technology, (
ken.hyde@aut.ac.nz), Chris Ryan, University of Waikato (
caryan@mngt.waikato.ac.nz ), and Arch G. Woodside, Boston College (
arch.woodside@bc.edu).
If possible, please send a two-page synopsis on your study by February 15, 2011; deadline for the complete paper is June 30, 2011.
Examples of relevant literature in case study research in tourism, hospitality, and leisure contexts include the following contributions:
, Derek (1999). The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A historical analysis of her Samoan research. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Hyde, Kenneth, and Lawson, Rob (2003). The nature of independent travel. Journal of Travel Research, 42(1), 13-23.
Mead, Margaret (1928). Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilization. New York: Harper Collins.
Ryan, Chris, and Hall, C. Michael (2001). Sex tourism: Marginal peoples and liminalities. London, UK: Routledge.
Woodside, Arch G., and Martin, Drew (2008). Applying ecological systems and micro-tipping point theory for understanding tourists’ leisure destination behavior. Journal of Travel Research, 47 (1), 14-24.
