This study reviews the literature related to regional entrepreneurship. It identifies the main
topical perspectives, advancements and shortcomings, discusses several research gaps …

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of ethnic minority small businesses (EMSBs) and its
antecedents and consequences are under-researched. Grounded in ethnic …

This paper explores the development of local small businesses in rural peripheral regions
compared to businesses in urban settings, and the impact of the local business' location and …

Purpose–This review investigates the extent and content of research into rural firm growth,
and identifies and describes various approaches to studying firm growth …

Governmental policies tend to support and boost entrepreneurship in peripheral regions in
many countries. This research revives the debate about specific regional policies designed …

Recent debates have seen increased interest in the growth of SMEs. Most research however
follows a limited remit, focusing on specific subsets and employing narrow, resource-based …

The aim of this paper is to explore ways in which small tourism-based enterprises can offer a
crisis-resilient pathway to sustainable development. Based on a mixed-embeddedness …

Based on a qualitative multiple-case study, this article focuses on the effect that multiple
embeddedness—that is, both local and family embeddedness—has on the entrepreneurial …

Peripheral regions are often negatively characterized as having structural weaknesses that
hinder the development of thriving firms. This study explores embeddedness, a concept …

This article examines a 'deprived'UK community to identify how (dis) connections between
context and enterprise are produced within accounts of a particular locality. We used a …