Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context(s)

Johan Gaddefors, Alistair R. Anderson · 2018 · The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Summary. Rural entrepreneurship research often romanticizes rural contexts in misleading ways. This paper argues that understanding rural entrepreneurship requires examining how entrepreneurs actually engage with the specific contexts that define rural areas, rather than relying on idealized notions of rurality. The authors propose new methods to better understand rural entrepreneurial processes through context-focused analysis.

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  title   = {Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context(s)},
  author  = {Johan Gaddefors and Alistair R. Anderson},
  journal = {The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation},
  year    = {2018},
  doi     = {10.1177/1465750318785545},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1465750318785545}
}

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DOI

10.1177/1465750318785545

Countries

Sweden, United Kingdom

Regions

Europe

Categories

entrepreneurship, innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems

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2026-04-28