Working Lives Research Institute
Allan Williams, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou
October 2007 - March 2010
Economic and Social Research Council
International migration is an important but under-researched channel of tacit knowledge transactions and innovation. This project examines the role of innovation in a ‘low-tech’ sector, hotels, where international migration is particularly prominent: accounting for 60-80% of all the labour force in London hotels.
The specific aims are:
Stage 1: Mapping innovations in the hotel industry: Archival research, and key informant interviews with suppliers, intermediaries, and policy bodies
Stage 2: Innovation in large-scale hotel chains: Interviews with domestic v foreign owned chains
Stage 3: Migrant v non-migrant managed small and medium sized London hotels: questionnaires and interviews
Stage 4: Comparative international evaluation by panel of international experts