Are entrepreneurs in rural areas of Russia and the Ukraine any different from their urban based counterparts? What are the implications of the distinctiveness of rural entrepreneurship upon the institutional setting - given the weakness of the State? We focus upon the experience of rural areas...

Local contextual factors and circumstances areseen to influence the entrepreneur. Current thinking proposes that localenterprise cooperation is a key element of economic development initiatives.Economic activity is seen as socially embedded, which usually implies localembeddedness. This...

In-migrants make disproportionately positivecontributions to the creation of new ventures in rural England. This studyexplores three questions: (1) Are in-migrant entrepreneurs different from theirlocally-born counterparts? (2) To what extent does the origin of the in-migrantentrepreneur affect...