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- December 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Animal-based Agribusiness;
Plant-based Agribusiness;
Customer Value And Value Chain;
Income;
Macroeconomics;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues;
Food;
Health Pandemics;
Crisis Management;
Logistics;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Strategic Planning;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
Latin America;
Aruba;
Guadeloupe;
Martinique;
Mexico;
Panama;
costa rica;
Argentina;
Brazil;
Chile;
Colombia;
Ecuador;
French Guiana;
Peru;
Uruguay;
Venezuela;
Puerto Rico;
Trinidad And Tobago
- 2020
- Chapter
Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
By: G. Jones
This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of...
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- October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
The Akamai Technical Academy
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett
By January 2020, Akamai Technologies had completed eight Akamai Technical Academy training programs in the U.S., Costa Rica, and Poland. Academy programs trained individuals without a traditional STEM degree for technically oriented jobs at Akamai. With aims to improve...
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- 2018
- Book
Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time
By: G. Jones
Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides...
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Keywords:
Green Business;
Sustainability;
Business History;
Eco-tourism;
Organic Wine;
Organic Food;
Waste Management;
Sustainable Finance;
Ethics;
Finance;
History;
Entrepreneurship;
Accommodations Industry;
Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry;
Banking Industry;
Energy Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Europe;
Asia;
Latin America;
North And Central America;
New Zealand
- Article
Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000
By: G. Jones and Andrew Spadafora
Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This article argues that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more than a...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
Between the 1970s and the 2000s, Costa Rica became established as the world’s leading ecotourism destination. This working paper suggests that although Costa Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more...
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- July 12, 2015
- Article
Analysis Law 1881 [Desvestir un Santo para Vestir Otro: Ley 1881]
By: Laura Alfaro
- February 8, 2014
- Editorial
China: nuevo modelo de crecimiento [China: the new growth model]
By: Laura Alfaro
- July 7, 2013
- Article
Queremos hospitales calidad FIFA [We Want FIFA-quality Hospitals]
By: Laura Alfaro
- March 3, 2013
- Guest Column
Informe de la comisión de notables [Report of the Committee of the Notables]
By: Laura Alfaro