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A Nomological Network Analysis Of Innovation In Hospitality Education And Industry, Robert H. Rippee Dec 2020

A Nomological Network Analysis Of Innovation In Hospitality Education And Industry, Robert H. Rippee

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The development of a theory of innovation for hospitality innovation finds heightened importance due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that has unleashed a devastating and sustained disruption on global hospitality and tourism. The problem for research is that the industry lacks a taxonomy for research on innovation in hospitality. This study addresses the gap in understanding the nomological relationship between innovation constructs and the observable manifestations of innovation in the hospitality industry. This study used an emergent basic qualitative design of a phenomenon through data collected in three phases. Two large samples of literature and a series of focus groups comprised …