Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency

Nermin Elkafrawi, Annie Roos, Deema Refai · 2022 · International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship

Summary. This paper uses Strong Structuration Theory to examine rural entrepreneurship through a case study of a woman entrepreneur in Sweden. The authors introduce the concept of gendered-local agency to explain how rural entrepreneurs actively navigate constraints and opportunities shaped by gender and locality. They show that agency emerges from the interplay between individual entrepreneurs and rural structures, demonstrating how everyday entrepreneurial actions both challenge and reinforce rural contexts.

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  title   = {Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency},
  author  = {Nermin Elkafrawi and Annie Roos and Deema Refai},
  journal = {International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship},
  year    = {2022},
  doi     = {10.1177/02662426211069851},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426211069851}
}

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DOI

10.1177/02662426211069851

Countries

Sweden

Regions

Europe

Categories

entrepreneurship, innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28