The present work provides an integrated view of rural entrepreneurship and sets the agenda
for future research in the area. Rurality defines a territorially specific entrepreneurial milieu …

• This report reviews the available literatures in order to:(i) identify the pressures, threats and
opportunities facing businesses operating in difficult economic conditions such as those …

This article examines the impact of a crisis on small firms. Taking a phenomenological
research approach, qualitative interviews were conducted to capture the experiences of …

This article uses UK data to consider how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 1
coped during the recent financial crisis. This is important, as SMEs are major contributors to …

This article analyses small firm responses to a major economic downturn, based on
empirical investigation in the UK and New Zealand. Despite differences in the timing and …

Depleted communities are a persistent feature of late capitalism. They can be seen as areas
that have lost much of their economic rationale as space, while retaining high attachments …

This paper examines the determinants of economic performance of 149 English rural Local
Authority Districts (LADs). A Three Stage Least Square (3SLS) estimation procedure was …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a resource‐based approach for exploring micro‐firm
management practice, as informed by the relevant literature. Specifically, the paper analyses …

Despite the recognition of entrepreneurship as one of the main determinants of rural
economic development, empirical research in this field is relatively sparse. Thus, there is …

Purpose Crises of any type have become an integral part of business activity and responses
to them could make the difference between survival and failure. This applies in particular to …