Rural entrepreneurship - a distinctive field of study / guest editor: David Deakins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deakins, David.

Series:

International journal of entrepreneurial behavior & research ; v. 12, no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Sociology, Rural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rural entrepreneurship is becoming established as an area of special study. The papers published in this ebook reflect a growing interest in the topic and have been selected from the 3rd Rural Entrepreneurship Conference held in Dumfries in October 2004. Although there is still an academic debate about whether rural issues can be separated from those of city regions the Guest Editor suggests that rural entrepreneurship does have distinctive characteristics that make it worthy of special attention. Rural entrepreneurship is considered in this ebook in terms of human capital, financial capital a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Guest editorial; Attitudes to growth and experience of growth among Scottish SMEs; Developing the entrepreneurial skills of farmers: some myths explored; Narrating the decline of subsistence entrepreneurship in a Scottish fishing community 1934-2004

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50682-2

9786610506828

1-84544-903-7

OCLC:

69662012