Heidi Dahles

University of Tasmania · School of Social Sciences

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The global tourism industry was severely affected by the COVID-19pandemic. New economic, social and political realities have emerged, and destinations are facing the changes. This research compares three popular destinations among Chinese tourists (i.e.Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore) to illuminate key political economic shifts of tourism in South...

ABSTRACT Regenerative tourism has gained ground during the pandemic crisis as a set of practices and processes that have the potential to refashion the industry. Based on a co-created ethnographic case study focussing on a local restaurant in a popular tourism region in Tasmania, this study raises the question as to what business strategies offer o...

This chapter looks at a small Tasmanian food business, nestled in one of the oldest wine regions in Australia, as it enters the tourism industry in an attempt to contribute to community building and development. In so doing, this business answers calls for tourism to move away from just being sustainable and be regenerative instead. This transition...

This chapter explores Cambodia’s economic outlook for a post-COVID future, focusing on the innovative potential of its domestic entrepreneurs. Based on qualitative research and extensive media analysis, two dimensions will guide this chapter: (1) the concept of entrepreneurship as innovative business activity and (2) generational change as the key...

This chapter explores Cambodia’s economic outlook for a post-COVID future, focusing on the innovative potential of its domestic entrepreneurs. Based on qualitative research and extensive media analysis, two dimensions will guide this chapter: (1) the concept of entrepreneurship as innovative business activity and (2) generational change as the key...

Current tourism scholarship emphasises the critical need for tourism providers to become more environmentally and socially responsible. Regenerative tourism principles seem to provide a suitable lens to understand and implement change, but adopting these principles requires a significant shift in the way businesses perceive and approach their opera...

The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical assessment of the current tourism development in Cambodia from the perspective of the ‘sustainable tourism development’ narrative. As one of Cambodia’s core industries, second only after the garment industry, tourism is a major source of income and an engine of economic growth. Despite the pivotal ro...

The project compared various strategies by tourism authorities in different Australian states and different countries in managing the Chinese tourist market. In collaboration with experts in different destinations, this study conducted a media survey of five Australian states and three popular Chinese country destinations on how they attract and ma...

This article addresses ways in which the scaling strategies of two Dutch non-profit organisations (NPOs) impact their pathways to social enterprise development. The NPOs under investigation seek to address the intertwined issues of hunger, food waste and environmental protection. Comparing and contrasting the two cases, the article discusses the st...

As developing countries are embracing new forms of tourism, particularly nature-based and community-based variants, the claim that an ecotourist-driven economy offers a sustainable future for local communities has come under critical scrutiny. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this debate by investigating a nature-based UNESCO heritage...

This article focuses on the intricate nature of scaling practices in social enterprise organizations (SEOs). The research is based on case study methodology in two different institutional environments , the Netherlands and Cambodia. Comparing and contrasting these cases, the article raises questions about ways in which the institutional environment...

The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which small tourism-based enterprises can offer a crisis-resilient pathway to sustainable development. Based on a mixed-embeddedness framework, this paper explores the multiple strategies that small enterprises in the silver souvenir industry of Kotagede (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) applied to cope with hardsh...

Tourism scholars agree that social entrepreneurship has an important role to play in the adoption of financially sustainable strategies to achieve social aims and the responsible development of tourism. Yet little is known about how tourism-based social enterprises (TSEs) engage with local communities. This article aims to fill this void by address...

Tourism development has often been regarded as an effective strategy for poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods. However, tourism often triggers transformations of traditional livelihoods and complete dependence on tourism-based income. Presenting the case of Komodo village on Komodo Island, Indonesia, this study provides an empirical eviden...

The small businesses in the local tourism industry of Yogyakarta have shown remarkable resilience during the long-term crisis (1996-2006) that profoundly affected the Indonesian economy. Small businesses that diversified within and across the tourism sector managed to survive the crisis and thrived thereafter. Businesses that focused on a fast retu...

Heidi Dahles takes focus on the development path of Cambodia’s education sector as the nation moves forward economically, addressing and reflecting upon the challenges of managing education in CPP Cambodia. https://iias.asia/the-newsletter/newsletter-78-autumn-2017

Understanding the complex and adaptive nature of Pacific Island communities is a growing yet relatively unexplored area in the context of tourism development. Taking an ethnographic research approach, this study examines how over 40 years of tourism development have led to complex and multi-scale changes within an Indigenous Fijian village. The stu...

China's growing outward investment, no-strings-attached economic assistance and political support to resource-rich developing nations are strategies to sustain its expabding economy. While mainstream literature emphasizes the resource-orientated nature of most of China's diplomacy, there are exceptions. Focusing on Camboia as a case study, this pap...

Women’s participation in business is gaining momentum amongst communities in the South Pacific, yet very few studies have explored this area in the context of tourism in Fiji. Based on ethnographic research, this study focuses on the gender dimension of community-based tourism development in Vatuolalai village, along with the Coral Coast of Fiji. I...

Upon China’s reentry into the world economy, investments in countries with a substantial ethnic Chinese population, such as in Southeast Asia, were among the first steps taken in an international business environment. Conversely, ethnic Chinese businesspeople from Southeast Asia were among the first who took their business to China in the 1990s. Th...

China’s growing demand for resources to fuel its economic growth has pushed the country to utilize its diplomacy to pursue resources abroad. China has encouraged outward investment by its state-owned enterprises in resource rich countries around the world, provided them economic assistance and offered political and diplomatic support at national an...

This study investigates how small-scale business owners in the Indonesian tourism industry seek to overcome the consequences of multiple crises, over a ten-year period. Taking a Bourdieuan perspective, the authors emphasise the context-dependency and quality differences of various forms of capital, and explain how these differences are manifested i...

Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as a vehicle for reducing inequalities. However, we argue that the prevailing individualistic focus on opportunity pursuit inadequately explains why many entrepreneurial efforts fail, particularly in the domain of foreign direct investment (FDI). Through our embedded case study of a Korean FDI in Cambodia...

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice. It covers both traditional and emerging concepts and terms and is fully international in its scope. More than 700 contributions of 766 internationally renowned experts from 113 countries provide a definitive access to the knowledge in the f...

This article examines how stakeholders involve themselves in the higher education (HE) sector in donor-dependent Cambodia and to what extent and with what result these stakeholders succeed to collaborate, or fail to do so. This study is based on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 46 key research participants from relevant institu...

In many countries which experience major out-migration movements at some point of their history, returning migrants or refugees may have a role to play in processes of (economic) development, peace building and reconstruction. The long-standing engagement of diaspora communities in their countries and communities of origin produces significant flow...

Natural disaster, economic recession and political turmoil pose major challenges to local tourism in developing countries. To address such challenges, this article investigates the multiple ways in which local tourism businesses respond to crises and the resources these businesses employ to build resilience in an unpredictable business environment....

Since the early 1990s in Cambodia, the title of “oknha” has been bestowed upon business people who make substantial financial contributions to national development projects. Recipients of this honour are identified by the leadership of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), in particular Prime Minister Hun Sen. This article addresses the politi...

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the silver industry in Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decade of crises. Based on two years of qualitative research among local entrepreneurs, an in-depth perspective is offered on the practices and strategies of SMEs coping with crisis. This paper makes two contributions to the literature on SMEs. The first is empiri...

This article assesses how strategies applied by Cambodian NGOs to reduce their dependence on external resources affect the sustainability of their mission, program and funding. At the empirical level, the findings suggest that NGO dependence on foreign aid has mixed effects on the organizations such as unpredictability of funding, goal displacement...

The increasing commercialization among non-profit organizations is shifting financial dependence from charitable donations to self-generated earned income through social entrepreneurial ventures. Little is known about the consequences of this shift. There is a lack of literature discussing how ventures into social entrepreneurship by non-profit org...

Purpose – The aim is to identify the potential for establishing successful businesses operations or institutions emanating from returnees' mixed embeddedness in post-conflict Cambodia. Design/methodology/approach – This explorative study of the two largest groups of returnees, the Cambodian French and the Cambodian Americans, compares these two ca...

This article outlines the contours of the scholarly debate on 'Chinese capitalism' in Southeast Asia. This multidisciplinary domain is business-and entrepreneurship-oriented, and concerns the ethnic Chinese who have migrated from Southern China to Southeast Asia and have come to play a dominant role in the region's economies over the centuries. The...

In entrepreneurship literature informal sector ventures are usually described as necessity-driven and survivalist businesses and denied the qualification of “entrepreneurial”. Recently, an emerging argument in western and transition economies has been that informal entrepreneurs are not always necessity-driven. The aim of this paper is to evaluate...

An analysis of the multilayered legacies of ethnic Chinese business ventures is a more appropriate way to come to an understanding of how ethnic Chinese businesses perceive of and establish themselves in China. The chapter first briefly describes the data sets and research methodologies. Then follows a discussion of the ways in which ethnic Chinese...

The Cambodian silk weaving industry shows a remarkable pattern of ethnicised positions interlocked in processes of production and trade stretching beyond Cambodia into the Southeast Asian region and into Europe and the United States. Key commercial positions in the Cambodian silk trading networks are dominated by the Chinese, at least so it seems....

In Tanzania, despite efforts in teaching entrepreneurship at universities, recent tracer-studies have reported falling rates of graduate self-employment. Among the factors that contribute to this decline, the Tanzanian entrepreneurial environment plays an ambivalent role. Based on the concept of entrepreneurial embeddedness, the personal stories of...

This article aims at contributing to a more profound understanding of the relationship between the developmental state and private entrepreneurial activity, in particular the internationalization of business ventures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Singapore, this article attempts to identify the role of the Singapore developmental state in orc...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to aim at assessing the impacts of the embedded nature of ethnic Chinese businesses on the management of business failure in China ventures. Design/methodology/approach Upon reviewing the key literature on ethnic Chinese transnational business ventures and, in particular, the concept of embeddedness, the paper...

Introduction, In this chapter I shall critically explore the notion and reality of a transnational Chinese community and its role in transnational business activity. Chinese businesspeople, whether of mainland or diasporic background and operating in the global economy have been constructed as a close-knit and far-flung transnational community (cf....

This article explores the conversion of ethnic Chinese managers in Indonesia and Malaysia to charismatic Christianity, a movement characterized by experiential spirituality, healing, and prophesying. The spiritual turn among ethnic Chinese managers is positioned against literature on spirituality in organizations and the acclaimed need for managers...

The focus of this paper is on the strategies applied by Singapore Chinese businesses upon failing in their China business ventures. It has been argued that both the increase in Singapore ventures into China and the failures are due to either cultural issues (misconceptions of 'shared ethnicity') or economic factors (differ-ences in economic practic...

This article explores a so far neglected dimension of the ongoing debate on the relationship between the politically contested position of the ethnic Chinese and their dominant role in the economies of Southeast Asia in general and in Malaysia in particular. While the prominence of the ethnic Chinese in the business life of Malaysia is ubiquitous,...

As a multi-cultural country with a British colonial past hosting many different ethnic groups including Westerners, Singapore juggles with the often conflicting forces of Westernization (holding the promise of economic prosperity) and Asianization (holding the promise of a distinct cultural identity). Although the endorsement of ‘Asian values’ by S...

This article analyses the transnational practices of Singapore‐Chinese companies venturing into China since the 1980s. Whereas in Western management discourse Western firms are supposed to build cross‐border coalitions on rational principles, Chinese firms are said to base their economic relations in ethnic ties resulting in a high level of cultura...

This article focuses on boundaries as symbolic constructs to overcome structural impediments to cooperation in a borderland constituted by two nation states – Germany and the Netherlands – that, from a global perspective, may be regarded as close cultural neighbours. Empirically, the vicissitudes of cross‐border cooperation are analysed at the leve...

This article analyzes the business strategies of Singapore-Chinese companies that have been venturing into China since the 1980s. Based on a number of case studies, the investment practices of Singaporean Chinese companies are investigated in terms of cultural, economic and political triggers. The question raised is whether increased investments by...

In Cambodia, silk weaving is of tremendous economic and cultural significance, in particular for Khmer ethnic identity. With the opening of Cambodia to foreign investments and tourism, silk production is resumed, while silk products become more heterogeneous. Silk markets and NGO-sponsored shops in the capital city of Phnom Penh offer a wide variet...

Global economic integration, widening communication networks and government policies supportive of private enterprise are changing opportunities for accumulating wealth, status and power. In varying degrees throughout Asia, this process is accompanied by the development of service enterprises such as banking, insurance, legal firms and IT firms, wh...

After decades of inviting foreign companies to invest in Singapore, the government of the city-state recently has started to encourage domestic entrepreneurs to expand their businesses abroad. This paper investigates the various ways in which domestic Singaporean businesses respond to these policy measures. Focusing on shifts in capital input - def...

The concept of tourist guides as “mediators” of local culture fails to capture the political component of guiding. Governments use tourism strategically in order to address issues of national significance. Based on an analysis of the policies of tourist guiding of the Indonesian government under Suharto's New Order regime, this article discusses th...

The concept of tourist guides as “mediators” of local culture fails to capture the political component of guiding. Governments use tourism strategically in order to address issues of national significance. Based on an analysis of the policies of tourist guiding of the Indonesian government under Suharto's New Order regime, this article discusses th...

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