Zografia Bika

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the attributes of entrepreneurial individuals who are not born locally enable them to follow distinct routes to starting and/or running a business, working in contexts that allow them to break away from the confines of rurality.

TL;DR: The authors argue that in the context of rural Cumbria, the conceptualisation of locality may go beyond territorial notions, and advocate a move forward to the detailed exploration of the interface between agency and context.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationships between the European farmers' early retirement policy instrument and structural and social outcomes are investigated. And the authors conclude that the early retirement scheme is subject to manipulation in terms of region-specific circumstances and thus fulfils social objectives rather than the purpose of structural cohesion.

TL;DR: The authors explored the extent to which gendered processes are reinforced (or not) in family business operations and dynamics by investigating the interface between gendered process and family business, and found that there is limited literature that explores gender theory within family business research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the incidence of innovation and the configuration of innovation systems in rural areas, which are viewed as possessing weak knowledge-generating subsystems, and conclude that a distinction between regional innovation systems (as macrolevel analytical units with a normative dimension) and actor-constructed regional innovation system (as microlevel descriptive units...