Robert Newbery

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics, drawing principally on current evidence for the UK, as well as lessons from the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak and the 2007/8 financial crises.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of cognitive dissonance on the saliency of the emerging identity and the influence of key existing identities using a novel dataset derived from a business simulation game and argued that the simulation offers a valuable resource to test theories within shortened timescales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the entrepreneurship and poverty relationship under a eudaimonic perspective that brings together conversion factors, and future prosperity expectations, based on an fsQCA of changes in life circumstances of 166 farm households in rural Kenya, and explored how different combinations of conversion factors enable distinct forms of entrepreneuring in the pursuit of prosperity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of network promotion in SMEs' export performance and found that while both informational and experiential export promotion programs improved all forms of SME relationships, only experientially forms had an indirect effect on export performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether support for social enterprises in non-metropolitan Greece has led to resilient social systems, and pointed out that social enterprise in Greece remains a top-down governance process which fails to deliver transformative forms of community resilience.