Rural southwest Scotland relies to an atypically large extent on its small firms. This research adopts a qualitative … approach to explore and map the relationships of 12 rural SMEs in the service sector. Although formal networks are … underdeveloped in rural southwest Scotland, business owners determine alternative ways of overcoming many of the constraints which …

nature of these developments by reference to empirical data from Scotland, gathered through a postal survey of 347 rural …

Documents a study of the usefulness and quality of websites of small firms in urban and rural areas in Scotland using … practice quality in urban and rural small firms, website quality is comparable in urban and rural small businesses. Well …

The article investigates how rural businesses demonstrate resilience when faced with adversities and the processes they … utilise to survive. The work explores rural resilience through the use of learning and innovation in small rural enterprises …. Drawing on case study work from rural England the results indicate that individual businesses find ways to overcome …

This article discusses the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas. It presents broadband as …. Access to broadband has become vital for rural communities to participate in a progressively digital economy and to overcome … problems of physical and social isolation. Yet rural areas are among those most excluded from fast broadband developments …

Australia’s rural and remote regions operate in a complex and uncertain environment. Global economies and markets are … combination of complexity and uncertainty bodes ill for sparsely settled rural regions, already constrained by narrow economic …

quality of life into old age and active participation in society. The importance of transport in addressing social exclusion … in rural communities has been acknowledged for some time and in this article we describe and report on the challenges … faced by older people in rural Lincolnshire when trying to maintain active lifestyles. Drawing on a series of focus groups …

This article takes up some interesting developments on public services reform in a rural context in England. It … considers: (1) current issues in public service delivery in rural areas; (2) the opportunities and barriers around changing …