The theme of this paper is the impact of participation in an environmental scheme on the host SME and the measurement of other entrepreneurial activity associated with the same SMEs. The following work objectives were adopted: To examine a representative sub sample of these SME participants and...

The image of rural entrepreneurship is dominated by micro companies, which very often are not innovative, stagnant in their development, focused on survival. A large share of them belongs to a gray zone. Policies supporting entrepreneurship development should aim to change gradually the current...

The efforts to understand the social and economic changes in Romania require the understanding of the social context and the factors contributing to its ongoing growth. Although the expectations of the 1990s have not resulted to improved the living standards, we find that the rural population...

Fostering entrepreneurship as a tool for the creation and support of rural businesses is a crucial goal for the integrated development and survival of rural economies. Despite the recognition of entrepreneurship as one of the main determinants of rural economic development, empirical research in...

Rural Entrepreneurship represents the area which reveals new meanings in the context of reorganization of the labor market affected by the global crisis. Traditional rural entrepreneur spirit, oriented mainly by the agricultural and commercial activities is refreshed by the opportunities of...