Tourism entrepreneurship in transition economies, unpacking the socio-economic contexts (original) (raw)

This study explores tourism entrepreneurship in transition economies, focusing on small hotels in Croatia. It critiques the dominant Western discourse in entrepreneurship research, emphasizing the need for an understanding of local socio-economic contexts. By applying an emancipatory framework, the research aims to amplify the voices of marginalized small hotel proprietors and challenges conventional Western entrepreneurial paradigms, proposing a data-generated conceptual framework that considers the unique influences of the socialist past and current socio-economic factors.