scholarly journals From theory to practice of ecotourism: major obstacles that stand in the way and best practices that lead to success

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina K. Dimitriou
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Continuous Use ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

AbstractEcotourism has been described as the ideal kind of tourism, as it aims to conserve the natural, cultural and other tourist resources for continuous use for future generations whilst still bringing benefits to the present societies. Theoretically, it sounds so promising and attractive, but when it comes to its actual implementation, significant constraints bar the way to success. Various countries that attempted to foster sustainable development in their communities, either partially achieved their goals or their implementation totally lapsed. These fruitless efforts clearly reflect the huge gap that still exists between the theory and practice of ecotourism. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap that seems to have been growing in recent years by explaining what has been done wrong and what specific policies and procedures could help bring a positive change. This paper aims to move from theory to practice and concentrate on how the implementation of ecotourism can be achieved properly and lead to success. The key factors responsible for failure are addressed, so they can be avoided and mistakes of the past will not be repeated. It also serves as a guide to more effective strategies of promoting ecotourism successfully around the world.

National Identity in France and Germany: From Mutual Exclusion to Negotiation

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Mutual Exclusion ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gradual Transformation ◽  
Reconciliation Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractWhen international conflicts come to an end, the question that is raised is not only ``what happened,'' but also – and more importantly – ``what shall we do with the past.'' Solving conflicts in a durable manner requires a gradual transformation in the way parties represent the past and elaborate their identity. To provide an adequate framework for a rapprochement, identities can no longer rely on a rejection of the other; they must be negotiated. This article is divided into three parts. First, the concepts of identity and memory are described. Second, the pre-reconciliation identities of groups are analyzed. In particular, the article examines the identities produced by France and Germany before their rapprochement. It argues that identities on both sides of the Rhine were conceived in monolithic terms and excluded dissident interpretations. Third, the article attempts to characterize identities as they develop in a reconciliation process. In this regard, the Franco-German case shows that identities may be the result of negotiation between different and often contradictory interpretations. The article describes this process of negotiation – the steps involved, the necessary conditions for it to occur, and the role played by key factors.

scholarly journals View from the Past – the Way to the Future

Upravlenie ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Мельник ◽  
M. Melnik
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This article describes the main developments and results of the emergence, formation and development of the scientific school of management theory. The article estimated place, role, contribution of the scientific school of State University of Management to the improvement and development of the theory and practice of management of the national economy of Russia.

scholarly journals Crowding the library: How and why libraries are using crowdsourcing to engage the public

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Severson ◽  
Jean-Sébastien Sauve
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Noticeable Increase ◽  
The Past

Over the past 10 years, there has been a noticeable increase of crowdsourcing projects in cultural heritage institutions, where digital technologies are being used to open up their collections and encourage the public to engage with them in a very direct way. Libraries, archives and museums have long had a history and mandate of outreach and public engagement but crowdsourcing marks a move towards a more participatory and inclusive model of engagement. If a library wants to start a crowdsourcing project, what do they need to know?  This article is written from a Canadian University library perspective with the goal to help the reader engage with the current crowdsourcing landscape. This article’s contribution includes a literature review and a survey of popular projects and platforms; followed by a case study of a crowdsourcing pilot completed at the McGill Library. The article pulls these two threads of theory and practice together—with a discussion of some of the best practices learned through the literature and real-life experience, giving the reader practical tools to help a library evaluate if crowdsourcing is right for them, and how to get a desired project off the ground.

scholarly journals What Counts as Best Practice Teaching for Teacher Educators: Theory and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 298-306
Author(s):  
Aurelia Atukwase
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Teacher Trainees ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
The Way

The aim of this essay is to operationalize best practice in teaching, what it is, what it constitutes and the kind of knowledge teacher educators need in order to become best practitioners. This is because some authors often use the phrase ‘best practices’ whenever debating about what teachers should portray in view of preparing teacher trainees for the teaching profession . What always occupies my mind, however, is not only the exploit of the phrase, but also the way different educational researchers even go ahead to suggest the benefits of best practices in teacher education without unpacking the phrase itself. My argument here is that not until teachers as practitioners re-define the scope of teaching in view of best practice, it might continue posing challenges for novice teachers to know the kind of knowledge they need to posses if they are to showcase best practices in teaching.

Track Two Diplomacy: The Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Peter Jones
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
More Care ◽  
The Way

Abstract The articles in this issue present a wide range of findings. First, the field continues to grapple with definitional issues: different types of projects aimed at different outcomes and audiences. More care needs to be given by each dialogue to define rigorously what it is trying to do and why. Second, fundamental lessons have emerged over the past six decades, which must be learned and observed by those active in this field, even as they seek to push the boundaries of theory and practice. Third, while it is generally agreed that the field must become more inclusive, both in terms of people and interests, and also in terms of encouraging local ownership and more transformative projects, a one-size-fits-all approach will not work; each dialogue should be viewed as unique. Finally, the field is a dynamic and evolving one. What seems to be best practice today may not be so tomorrow.

There's Just One More Thing

2011 ◽  
pp. 250-253
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Andriole
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Technology Management ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Integration Technology ◽  
Corporate Scandals ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business Technology ◽  
The Way

We’ve been through a lot during just the past few years. Y2K, e-business frenzy, free capital, dot.bombs, corporate scandals, integration technology - and we’re still standing. Of course we are. Because all of these “major” events, “disruptive technologies,” and once-in-a-lifetime stories are anything but. Life goes on, as they say, in the trenches and in the clouds. It’s all about commitment. Business is not always complicated. We sometimes convert simplicity into complexity so we have something to do, into some problem that only we can solve. I guarantee you that if you change the way you think about business technology and practice sane management you will save money and become more competitive, more profitable. There is huge leverage here. Companies are wasting millions and in some cases billions of dollars a year because their business technology relationship is fractured. Here are the questions: • Do you think about business as heading toward collaboration? • Can you identify the technologies that enable collaboration – and the collaborative business models that pull technology? • Do you get the importance of technology integration? • Will you organize things differently? • Will you re-visit your business technology management best practices? • Will you be a little more careful about who you invite inside your company?

scholarly journals Making a Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research by Studying Crowd-Funded Entrepreneurial Opportunities

2019 ◽  
pp. 104225871988864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Pollack ◽  
Markku Maula ◽  
Thomas H. Allison ◽  
Maija Renko ◽  
Christina C. Günther
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory ◽  
The Way

This editorial outlines our perspective on the state of literature as well as suggestions for new contributions to entrepreneurship research in the area of crowd-funded opportunities. Our aim is, first, to outline what we see as best practices for research on crowd-funded entrepreneurial opportunities. Second, we aim to solicit additional articles for the Virtual Special Issue (VSI) on “Crowd-Funded Entrepreneurial Opportunities” in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. In contrast to typical editorial articles associated with special issues, we take a prospective approach and outline what we hope (and expect) to see in the literature in the future. Put differently, we are not going to summarize a subset of articles that have been accepted for publication—rather, we are going to delineate the subset of articles to be written that we would, ideally, like to see submitted to top-tier entrepreneurship journals in order to advance the literature. Along the way, we will describe best practices that we anticipate can elevate research in this burgeoning area of inquiry.

scholarly journals Robert Dahl and the Right to Workplace Democracy

2001 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Citizen ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

Do employees possess a moral right to democratic voice at work? In A Preface To Economic Democracy and other writings over the past two decades, Robert Dahl has developed a neo-Kantian proof for the existence of such a right. Even if we accept the norm of distributive justice upon which Dahl founds his proof, voluntary subjection to authoritarian power in firms does not violate the legitimate entitlements of employees. While adult residents of territorial associations do possess a moral right to political equality, polities and firms are qualitatively different types of associations in which the entitlements of subjects are distinct. Subjection to power is acquired in different ways in the two kinds of associations, and this difference deprives employees—but not residents—of a right to democratic voice as a matter of moral desert.Throughout his career, Robert Dahl has been troubled by the different ways in which those who govern polities and firms are chosen in modern society. While democracy is the norm in the state, at least in the advanced industrial nations, authoritarianism prevails in the economy. Most employees are subject to managers they did not elect and to rules in which they had little or no say. They are subordinates, a role manifestly at odds with the ideal of the democratic citizen. Given the “contradictions between our commitment to the democratic ideal and the theory and practice of hierarchy in our daily lives,”

Constraints on the Interactive Organization as an Ideal Type

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Krackhardt
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Type ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Sources Of Resistance ◽  
Bureaucratic Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
Informal Relations ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

Expressed in the theme of this book [C. Hecksher and A. Donnellon, The Post Bureaucratic Organization, the book from which this chapter is reproduced] is a hope, a desire for a better organization than the one we have experienced for generations, the infamous bureaucracy. I am sympathetic with this hope. All of us who have studied organizations have encountered the debilitating effects of bureaucratic forms, whether managed well or not. And progress is made, as the Kennedy quote in the epigraph suggests, by dreamers who are willing to let go of the way of the past and peer into the neverland of what could be. Dreams motivate. They liberate us from the institutional constraints of history and social inertia so that we can explore new, unimaginable landscapes. But dreams also conveniently leave out the obstacles and problems that reality so rudely interjects. Thus, dreams do not guarantee success. And although the last two words “Why not” from the above quote are presumably rhetorical, one could take them literally and suggest that dreams should be scrutinized for loopholes. The answer to the question. “Why not?” may just be, “Because it won’t work.” It is not my purpose here to prejudge the viability of the post bureaucratic form. But, if it is to succeed, we must explore the obstacles to its evolution, the possible constraints to its existence. If we can anticipate the sources of resistance to its survival, we will have a better chance of nurturing it along until it can predominate among its alternatives. This chapter is built around two questions: (1) Can the ideal post bureaucratic form exist? and (2) If it could exist, would we want it to? The characteristics of interactive forms are described in the Heckscher- Applegate “Introduction” and narrowed down in the Heckscher chapter “Defining the Post-Bureaucratic Type” [in The Post-Bureaucratic Organization]. Although I see differences in the various chapters about what ideal type might entail, there are characteristics that emerge as dominant in this proposed form. Foremost among these defining characteristics is the reliance on informal relations, or associations, that cut across, or perhaps replace, formal channels established by the organization.

Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prevailing View ◽  
The Way

At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland’s national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism. Whereas 19th-century Scotland is popularly depicted as a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows how Scotland’s national heroes were once the embodiment of a consistent, expressive and robust view of Scottish nationality. Whether celebrating the legacy of William Wallace and Robert Bruce, the reformer John Knox, the Covenanters, 19th-century Scots rooted their national heroes in a Presbyterian and unionist view of Scotland’s past. Examined through the prism of commemoration, this book uncovers collective memories of Scotland’s past entirely opposed to 21st-century assumptions of medieval proto-nationalism and Calvinist misery. Detailed studies of 19th-century commemoration of Scotland’s national heroes Uncovers an all but forgotten interpretation of these ‘great Scots’ Shines a new light on the mindset of nineteenth-century Scottish national identity as being comfortably Scottish and British Overturns the prevailing view of Victorian Scottishness as parochial, sentimental tartanry

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