Other social sciences

Tourism, Hospitality and Restaurants - Includes human resource management and the effects of new technologies on innovation practices and on their relationship with human resources. Alongside hotel management, there are specific dimensions of gastronomy, culinary arts and food production that need to be flagged and   to explore niches in the agro-food/food service/food industry sectors that have the potential to generate new innovative products and services underpinned by a health and safety perspective.

Tourism Economics and Management - focused on development and capitalization of tourism economics decision support systems for public policy and business planning; efficient management accounting systems; tourism contributions to the circular economy; strategic and operational marketing instruments for business and destination competitiveness.

Lisa Pace is senior lecturer of innovation management and foresight within the Edward de Bono Institute for Creative Thinking and Innovation at the University of Malta. Lisa completed a PhD in innovation management at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, UK and has worked in the academic and public sector spheres on issues related to sustainability innovation, foresight and the blue economy, citizen engagement and the future of Europe.

This research group focuses on the Information and Communication technology and its role in changing and managing for-profit, public and nonprofit organizations. We are focused on quantitative research methods, especially PLS-SEM-based research.

https://www.um.edu.mt/platforms/migration/ourscope

https://www.um.edu.mt/platforms/professionalethics

https://www.um.edu.mt/platforms/islandtourism/termsofreference

Research is organised around three axes:

Axis 1: Concepts and theories
Axis 2: Traces and materialities of knowledge
Axis 3: Artifacts and systems