Rural entrepreneurship : harvesting ideas and sowing new seeds

This edited collection showcases the evolution of rural entrepreneurship research over the first quarter of the 21st Century. Contributions examine what we have learnt about different aspects of rural entrepreneurship and what still needs to be understood. Each chapter looks for inspiration from the...

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Other Authors Bosworth, Gary (Editor), Chapman, Polly (Editor), Newbery, Robert (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
SeriesContemporary issues in entrepreneurship research ; v. 20.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837535781
DOI10.1108/S2040-7246202520
Physical Description1 online resource (280 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Roger M Turner
  • Chapter 1. Rural entrepreneurship: Harvesting ideas and sowing new seeds / Gary Bosworth, Polly Chapman, Robert Newbery, Artur Steiner, and Don J Webber
  • Chapter 2. What can participant observations tell us about rural entrepreneurship? / Andreas Giazitzoglu and Gary Bosworth
  • Chapter 3. Entrepreneurial universities and their engagement with rural enterprise / Barbara Tocco, James A Cunningham, Amelia Magistrali, Jeremy Phillipson, and Matthew Gorton
  • Chapter 4. Land and the community / Mike Danson, Anne Smith, and Geoff Whittam
  • Chapter 5. Understanding and supporting farm development strategies / Peter Gittins and Ron Methorst
  • Chapter 6. An alternative explanation of the rural-urban productivity gap / Don J Webber and Pattanapong Tiwasing
  • Chapter 7. Rural entrepreneurship and location: Does rurality matter for small firms? / David Deakins, Jo Bensemann, Abhishek Mukherjee, and Jonathan M. Scott
  • Chapter 8. Social enterprise for rural health and wellbeing / Artur Steiner and Danielle Hutcheon
  • Chapter 9. Food and rural entrepreneurship / Eifiona Thomas Lane, Rebecca Jones, and Robert Bowen
  • Chapter 10. Rural entrepreneurship and international development / Robert Newbery and Paul Igwe
  • Chapter 11. The role of rural entrepreneurship in the redevelopment of rural areas previously involved in resource extraction / Nikolaos Apostolopoulos, Ilias Makris, Sotiris Apostolopoulos, and Panagiotis Liargovas
  • Chapter 12. Digital rural entrepreneurship: Two decades of research into the interaction between entrepreneurs and policy / Koen Salemink, Polly Chapman, and Leanne Townsend
  • Chapter 13. Clustering policy and its effects on rural entrepreneurship over 20 years / Ian Merrell and David Charles
  • Chapter 14. Creating and extracting illicit value from the rural environment: An ethnographic study of two organised criminal businesses / Orlando Goodall and Robert Smith
  • Chapter 15. Rural entrepreneurship and the formalisation of rural tourism in marginal destinations: Challenges and perspectives / Lavinia Wilson-Youlden and Helen Farrell
  • Chapter 16. Does gender matter? / Sally Shortall and Orla Collins
  • Chapter 17. Rural regeneration through arts and culture: Shifting perspectives on gaelic and enterprise contexts / Mike Danson, Kathryn A Burnett, and Douglas Chalmers.