Lowry, Linda

Job Title

Associate Professor, Hospitality & Tourism Mangement, Isenberg School of Management

Last Name

Lowry

First Name

Linda

Discipline

Business

Expertise

Social, Cultural, and Economic Impacts of Tourism
Sustainable Tourism Development
Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning
Tourism Policy, Planning, and Development

Introduction

Linda L. Lowry, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management. Her research interests include tourism policy and planning; sustainable tourism development and the impacts of tourism; agritourism and slow tourism; and tourism theory development.

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The Academy is like a Body Builder – Why don’t we have new theories?
(2021) Lowry, Linda
The Academy is like a Body Builder, valuing prowess at all costs. Throughout this paper, the author uses the metaphorical representation of the embodied Academy and practices used to build prowess. Prowess is measured in various ways, one of which is developing its own theories rather than borrowing from others. Archetypical Body Builders and their representative types of prowess defamiliarize the familiar in order to enable the Academy to envision the process of theorizing to theory development and its role in that process in new ways. This new contextualization and illumination, in turn, contributes to a better understanding of the process of theorizing which the author hopes will increase theorizing and new theory development. Additionally, this paper contributes to methodology by exemplifying the use of analogy, abductive reasoning, narrative style theorizing, a different writing style and traditional paper structure indicative of performance based research and shows how theorizing is done.
Tourism’s social impact on a local community: The case of a mountain ski town
(2016) Cartier, Elizabeth A; Lowry, Linda L
Addressing the Need for New Tourism Theory: The Utility of Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology for Theory Development
(2015) Lowry, Linda L; Cartier, Elizabeth A; Back, Robin M; Delconte, John D
Producing Higher Quality Ethnographies: The Blending of Two Methods of Analysis to Better Understand Ski Culture
(2015) Cartier, Elizabeth A; Lowry, Linda L.
Using the CMM Theoretical Lens to Deconstruct Problematic Discourse Regarding Quality and Rigor in Tourism Research: Can Transparency Bridge the Metatheoretical Divide?
(2016) Lowry, Linda L; Cartier, Elizabeth A
Qualitative Research Methods for Critical Inquiry: An Emergent Method of Analysis from the Social Sciences
(2017) Lowry, Linda L.; Cartier, Elizabeth A
Elizabeth A. Cartier is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Isenberg School at UMass-Amherst. Her research interests include: host and tourist behavior, tourism culture, and the critical aspects of power and control. Human resources, leadership and tourism are the focus of her teaching.