Rogat+-+Memo+-+First+Draft+Proposal

Michelle Rogat First Draft Proposal - remember keep to bare necessities and if there is more written parts that come out put it in an appendix or separate memo for a draft thesis to get started, attaching a draft to share with committee that shows clips of examples of the writing that will be included is helpful.


 * __TITLE:__** The Business Ecology Surrounding Hospitality: Hurdles and Pathways to Sustainability

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__**DRAFT OVERVIEW**__ __**METHODOLOGY AND PLAN OF WORK**__ __**DISSEMINATION**__
 * __ABSTRACT__:** __**memo - abstract**__
 * **__Aims__ -** Analyze the business ecology structure of the hospitality industry for the circumstances that provide opportunities and constraints for businesses to shift to sustainability.
 * __**Methods**__ - Literature Review, Interviews with a number of businesses and professionals that fall into the different nodes of the hospitality business ecology such as the businesses themselves, businesses that provide them with services, environmental and sustainability consultants and consulting firms, and the elite customers/members. Now also considering a survey to be sent out to businesses in hospitality industry to fully map out the separate businesses and professionals they deal with, their views on sustainability, their role in protecting the environment if they see one to begin with, etc. I will also be doing immersive research in which I will be working alongside the superintendent of a country club through the process of becoming a green certified golf course, and alongside the kitchen staff in transitioning the kitchen to separating out food waste. Throughout these projects I will be taking notes and observing any issues that come up and how we were able to work around those issues. I will also do an analysis of what is available to the club for becoming sustainable through the services it uses daily.
 * __**Expected Results**__ - Certain reoccurring advise will present itself across the different stakeholders involved, this will provide insight on how to get more of society sustainable. The end results should be informative to the hospitality industry and hopefully persuades and guides many in the business to shift towards sustainability.
 * **__Expected Significance and Circulation__** - Advise businesses in the hospitality sector how to become sustainable, what resources and opportunities are available to them, and why they should. These same concepts could also apply to other business sectors of the economy and to the rest of society. This also shows insight into why it is important to study the elite and is one case where there was research access to study the decision making process of those in power and behind closed doors.
 * broad impact / merit
 * From these chapters will be advice for business owners and the hospitality industry that there is strong inter-dependencies between them and the separate parts of the business ecology that they participate in, that can either create opportunities or be disadvantaging. These businesses live within the community around it, so doesn't just fall on the club to be sustainable, but on the whole business ecology. So everything doesn't just fall on one business in the ecology, and one business can affect many others. Then there is advice on becoming sustainable that each node of the business ecology had to offer.
 * **__memo - draft overview__**
 * __BACKGROUND & SIGNIFICANCE__**
 * **__memo - draft background section__**
 * **__memo - hegemonic backgrounds__**
 * **__memo - paradigm shift__**
 * __PREPARATION & WORK SO FAR__**
 * **__my experience at the country club__**
 * I've been granted permission to carry out research at the club and to work alongside the superintendent to get the golf course certified as a green gc by Audubon International, and to possibly do more research in the future concerning the restaurant and the rest of the clubhouse
 * pilot research and findings - first interviews
 * **__memo - field sites__**
 * conceptual framework - research grid - memo 6B
 * memo - study components
 * memo - research questions - interview questions
 * memo - schedule of activities
 * memo - ethics
 * evaluation and validity???? - use advice I come across to make the projects at the country club more successful, and take notes on how I try to utilize the advice at the club - analyze how the process helps or not
 * publish a book on the research and results, along with personal beliefs and experiences on the matter - very similar to Schendler's "Getting Green Done"
 * chapter summaries of book
 * share results of survey with organizations that are for the businesses in the hospitality industry. For instance, if the research included a survey on golf courses then I would share it with the USGA and Audubon International, etc.
 * cross-expertise dialogue?
 * policy work?