‌Abstracts by themes

You can find the full track sessions here

1) Entrepreneurship Farming and the Natural environment

• Strategic decision making in farm development: A relational view supporting a sociology of entrepreneurship approach
• Upland entrepreneurs in post-European Wales
• Strategic Entrepreneurship: The evidence from small family farms 

2) Innovating the Rural Supply Chain

• Paradoxes of Sustainable Practices in the British Countryside: Investigating the dairy supply chain 
• Examining International Supply Chain Strategies for Rural Entrepreneurs with Premium Agri-food Products
• Adding Value to the Agri-food Sector: Evidence from Vietnam  

3) International dimensions of rural entrepreneurship: farming and finance

• Does a rural location matter for innovative small firms? Comparing strategies of agri-business innovative small firms from rural and urban environments in New Zealand
• Low Supply of Commercial Farming Spinning out from African Students in Universities and Colleges
• Women Entrepreneurs and Informal Finance in Rural India: An Exploratory Study
• Is finance a panacea to entrepreneurship development in developing countries?: Evidence from non-farm entrepreneurial activities in Nigeria

4) International dimensions of rural entrepreneurship: finance and leadership

• ‘I am famous now!’ - Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Kenyan Social Enterprise Context
• Barriers and challenges in Swedish agriculture development – A study about self-leadership and lean innovation
• Microfinance and female entrepreneurship in a post-conflict, rural environment: Evidence from Sri Lanka

5) New approaches in rural theory

• Measuring the availability of services and facilities in rural England
• Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions: A literature review
• Comparing the Performance of Rural and Urban SMEs in the UK: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

6) Opportunities and challenges for rural development

• Rural Businesses: Aligning Perceptions with Policies to target support
• The case for understanding the role of dynamic capabilities within rural micro-enterprises
• Understanding the Role of Dynamic Capabilities within Rural Micro-enterprises: The Case for the Development of a Research Agenda
• How the village pub can use its history and heritage to aid local communities, economies and village identities

7) Rural Development, Innovation and Universities - Sponsored by Innogrow

• The beginnings of a Territorial Innovation Model in Northern Rural England?
• Challenges and Barriers to Sustainable Business Model Innovation in Swedish Agri-food Production
• Impact Analysis of New Technologies for Rural SMEs

8) Rural Social Entrepreneurship

• Animal Farm: A Cautionary Tale of Community Landownership?
• The health and wellbeing impacts of social enterprise in rural, remote and fragile communities
• Not Everything in the Garden is Rose: Entrepreneurial Failure in the Rural Third Sector
• A New Perspective on the Realities of Supporting Rural Social Entrepreneurship
• ‘We are Victims and entrepreneurs’ – Social Enterprise during turbulent times in Greece
• Investigation of the possible correlation between good governance and entrepreneurship of rural social enterprises
• Exploring Rural Social Entrepreneurial Process - case studies in Taiwan

9) Rural Tourism and Hospitality Entrepreneurship

• Lifestyle entrepreneurship within the lifestyle sports sector: Exploring the literature on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in the rural tourism setting
• Exploring the roles of women in the development and management of multi-functionality on family farms
• Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship. A case of business model innovation by Lundgren Tours.
• Rural Alliances – a new model of rural development