Thirty members of Strathclyde Business School partner organisations, central staff, and faculty gathered in Dubai this January 19-21 for the 2014 International Partners Meeting. An annual meeting that rotates amongst the nine international centres of SBS, the partners meeting provides an opportunity for extended discussions of programme goals, challenges, and strategies to best serve Strathclyde’s international part-time students.
Professor Alec Morton, Management Science, has been appointed associate editor of OR spectrum, the journal of the German and Dutch management science communities.
OR Spectrum publishes applied and theoretical papers which contribute to Operations Research as a scientific instrument for the development and application of quantitative approaches for problem-solving and decision-making in management. It addresses all persons from university, industry, business and administration interested in innovative applications of quantitative methods as well as in advances in theory and techniques with relevance to practice.
The journal provides an international forum for academics and practitioners from areas such as quantitative management science, mathematical operations research, and related fields of engineering and information systems. It publishes high-quality, original papers belonging to the following types of contributions: Surveys, theoretical papers, application-oriented papers, and case studies. Papers must be written in English and all contributions are reviewed by at least two referees.
Emeritus professor Richard Butler was keynote speaker at a conference in Gran Canaria in December of 2013 and also interviewed by the local media, newspaper as attached and television. The conference was hosted by the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and ran December 12 and 13. It was entitled 'International Conference on Tourist Destinations - Competitiveness and Sustainability in Times of Crisis'. Professor Butler's presentation was 'Tourist Destinations - Issues and Options with Change'.
Professor Tom Baum, professor of international tourism and hospitality management in the department of Human Resource Management, was invited to deliver a keynote address to the Italian Society of Geographers Annual Conference in Rome. Professor Baum's paper on Hospitable Skills for Destinations and Destination Managers, contributed to a wider conference theme of Mobilities and the Hospitable City.