Artur Steiner

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the economic and social contributions of rural businesses to local resilience, how these contributions made, and why do business owners make these contributions, and found that rural businesses contribute to rural resilience in both direct and indirect ways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an evaluation model for measuring community resilience and empirical findings that derive from deploying the model in a real-life scenario, based on 155 face-to-face interviews with inhabitants from rural communities, indicating the importance of unpacking resilience by exploring different levels of its social and economic components.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on communities who do not engage, identify in-community sub-groups and differences as the norm rather than exception, recognise the backwards and forwards motion of community development processes, identify the fluidity of in community interests and powers, and recognise differences between individual and community-level aspirations.

TL;DR: It is argued that social enterprise could represent a means of tackling rural challenges of providing sustainable economic development, addressing the withdrawal of public services and promoting community cohesion and a conceptual framework is developed that helps to understand how to unlock the potential contribution of social enterprises to rural development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider whether, and if so how, rural communities can be supported, through a facilitated process, to create social enterprises within the field of health and care, using results from the thematic analysis of four community case studies involved in a facilitated action-research process.