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NGOs and the making of “development tourism destinations”

Becklake, Sarah - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 6 (2014) 2, pp. 223-242

: “destino Guatemala”. NGOs in La Antigua Guatemala are increasingly engaging with tourism as a NGO resource. In focusing on the … and wallets”, they are doing considerably more. Most notably, they are helping to (re)make Guatemala into a “development … (Re-)Kreierung eines bestimmten Reiseziels, nämlich der „destino Guatemala“ analysiert. NROs in La Antigua Guatemala …

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The Role of Accent on the Credibility and Effectiveness of the International Business Person: The Case of Guatemala

Tsalikis, John; Ortiz‐Buonafina, Marta; LaTour, Michael S. - In: International Marketing Review 9 (1992) 4

Assesses the effect of an international business person′s accent on Guatemalan subjects′ perception of the business person′s effectiveness, credibility, competence, friendliness, as well as the Guatemalan subject′s intentions to buy. Graduate students at a Guatemalan university listened...

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Economic openness and rural communities in Guatemala

Nicolás Cabrera‐Schneider, José - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 3 (2009) 1, pp. 84-93

Guatemala and the USA was used to determine which year the impact of economic openness policies began. Then, changes in the area … to assess effects on rural communities. Findings – The trend in Guatemala's corn price and the trend in the US's corn …

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An empirical study comparing Guatemalan and United States logistics strategies

McGinnis, Michael A.; Spillan, John E.; Virzi, Nicholas - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 23 (2012) 1, pp. 77-95

from US logistics managers. Findings – While the fundamentals of logistics strategy in Guatemala were similar to those of …

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Constructing a postcolonial feminist ethnography

Manning, Jennifer - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 5 (2016) 2, pp. 90-105

representation as the primary challenges of undertaking a postcolonial feminist ethnography with marginalised Maya women in Guatemala … ethnography was conducted over a three-month period in the rural highlands of Sololá, Guatemala. This approach bridges the …

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Feet of clay: confronting emotional challenges in ethnographic experience

Warden, Tara - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 2 (2013) 2, pp. 150-172

Purpose – Ethnographers, as tools of data collection, are uniquely positioned in a paradoxical relationship between intense immersion and objective distance from research and participants. This relationship can be particularly intense when researching hidden or marginalized communities in...

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Evaluating impacts of microfinance institutions using Guatemalan data

Brau, James C.; Hiatt, Shon; Woodworth, Warner - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) 12, pp. 953-974

Guatemala. Design/methodology/approach – Using a dataset of 393 clients from Guatemalan MFIs, microfinance impacts from two … graduated clients of five MFIs in Guatemala. Findings – Applying univariate and multivariate analyses shows that for Guatemala … is that it focuses on only five of several dozen MFIs in Guatemala. What is needed is further use of the survey …

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A clash with volunteer tourists? An extreme case study in Guatemala

Klaver, Ferdi R.M. - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 7 (2015) 2, pp. 189-200

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine value change and changed consciousness with reference to three projects operated by a Guatemalan volunteer organization. Design/methodology/approach – An extreme case field study design is used. It was extreme in terms of Hofstede’s...

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