Gerard McElwee

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the main issues derived from studies published on the subject of farmers' skills and entrepreneurial capacity to determine which topics have emerged as areas of research and suggest that there are some limited emergent trends in the literature and that a number of key topics are receiving higher levels of attention than others: namely farm diversification and farmers' enterprise skills.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that enterprises can be understood primarily in terms of their social bases and that the social base of community enterprise lies in community of some kind, and argue that CBE is only one form of community enterprises.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary report of an exploratory, qualitative investigation of the role of Omani women entrepreneurs in Muscat is presented, which establishes the factors that motivate women to become entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the nexus of agriculture and entrepreneurship as an illustrative example, through which the nature of entrepreneurial skills and the elements underpinning their adoption can be examined, and demonstrate the usefulness of the concept as a tool in understanding the case of an enterprising Finnish farmer, active both in conventional farming and in diversified business.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of significant pressures but also new opportunities face the agricultural sector in developed economies, and farm diversification is presented as a political solution and a viable business str...