 The inception of the rational platformKorstanje M. and Geoffrey Skoll Turismo y Desarrollo Local, 2014, issue 17 Abstract: This is not an attack to managerial literature nor marketing, which are valuable instruments to make people’s life better. Rather, this essay-review focuses its criticism against RP (Rational Platform), elaborated by some policy-maker who are camouflaged of social scientists. The inception of rational platform, following the legacy of Jafar Jafari, is based on the instrumentalisation of some concepts and protocols of science; however, it is aimed at protecting the financial interests of status quo. In addition, RP conforms as the fifth platform to those formulated by Jafari a couple of decades back. The RP constructs its legitimacy alluding to scientific protocols such as the peer-review process, impact factor indexes, journal rankings, some naïve methodological discussions, but at the bottom their results consist in the administration of opinion polls to know further on the preferences of a great variety of segments. Subject to demographic variables such as gender, income and age of tourists, these questionaries’ are simulacra of scientific research. Its explanations are of second order associated to profits and business-related programs. Keywords: The; inception; of; the; rational; platform (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:erv:turdes:y:2014:i:17:05 Access Statistics for this article Turismo y Desarrollo Local is currently edited by Servicios Académicos Intercontinentales SL More articles in Turismo y Desarrollo Local from Servicios Académicos Intercontinentales SL |
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