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Transformation and Power: The Croatian Case

In a transitional country, transformation processes are difficult and complicated, especially in the hotel industry, which involves entire local communities. This paper analyses a sustained eight-year dispute of ownership to hotel properties in the town of Opatija, one of Croatia's leading seaside resorts. The case-study builds insight into the importance of a local community power struggle on which, inevitably, privatisation will come to rest. Learning how to manage the "local scene", rather than just offering top-down policies is critical to transformation processes in all transitional countries.

transformation; Croatia; hotel industry; stakeholders; economic systems; wnership

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