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In the design of Destination Management and Marketing Organizations (DMMOs), expectations for decision-making roles depend on custodial control over core assets rather than administrative scale, while human resource capacity acts as a rate-limiting constraint on organizational form. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how participatory engagement with local institutions, businesses, and residents informs the structural configuration, decision rights, and human resource profiles of emerging destination management organizations.

September 10, 2026MeritsOpen Access

Destination Management and Marketing Organizations as Enablers of Entrepreneurial Resilience: Co-Creating Organizational Structures and Human Resource Capacity Through Participatory Governance and Emerging Technologies

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GTGeorgios Tsoupros SVSotirios Varelas IAIoannis Anastasopoulos

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Qualitative multiple-case study reveals participatory governance structures and human resource limits in Greek tourism destinations, suggesting tailored organizational designs over uniform models.

Key Points

To examine how participatory engagement with local institutions, businesses, and residents informs the structural configuration, decision rights, and human resource profiles of emerging destination management organizations.
Conducted a qualitative, multiple-case study across four Greek tourism destinations of varying geographic scale and character: Delphi, Meteora, Larisa, and the Region of Epirus.
Evaluated organizational formation under a nationally coordinated recovery program using structural contingency theory and configurational fit as analytical frameworks.
Decision-making expectations track custodial control over core destination assets rather than administrative scale.
Support for human resource development is uniform across destinations, but resource expectations scale with administrative level, creating the widest implementation gap in smaller localities.
Interest in artificial intelligence tools remains consistent regardless of overall technological enthusiasm, reflecting perceived local digital competency constraints.

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Tsoupros et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa27ae958559d80afc73d4e https://doi.org/10.3390/merits6030026

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September 10, 2026MeritsOpen Access

Destination Management and Marketing Organizations as Enablers of Entrepreneurial Resilience: Co-Creating Organizational Structures and Human Resource Capacity Through Participatory Governance and Emerging Technologies

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Authors

GTGeorgios Tsoupros SVSotirios Varelas IAIoannis Anastasopoulos

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Overview

Qualitative multiple-case study reveals participatory governance structures and human resource limits in Greek tourism destinations, suggesting tailored organizational designs over uniform models.

Key Points

To examine how participatory engagement with local institutions, businesses, and residents informs the structural configuration, decision rights, and human resource profiles of emerging destination management organizations.
Conducted a qualitative, multiple-case study across four Greek tourism destinations of varying geographic scale and character: Delphi, Meteora, Larisa, and the Region of Epirus.
Evaluated organizational formation under a nationally coordinated recovery program using structural contingency theory and configurational fit as analytical frameworks.
Decision-making expectations track custodial control over core destination assets rather than administrative scale.
Support for human resource development is uniform across destinations, but resource expectations scale with administrative level, creating the widest implementation gap in smaller localities.
Interest in artificial intelligence tools remains consistent regardless of overall technological enthusiasm, reflecting perceived local digital competency constraints.

Cite This Study

Tsoupros et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa27ae958559d80afc73d4e https://doi.org/10.3390/merits6030026

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