The impact of the perceived entrepreneurial risk on the size of debt when liquidity constraints exist for new small- to medium-size enterprises in rural areas in southern Europe is the first topic examined.The second is the effect of the location of sales for these new ventures on the perceived...

This study investigates the idea that it is possible to construct a richer array of motivations to understand the start up and survival of micro- and small enterprises in the rural non-farm sector. Data were collected from a village-level survey of micro- and small enterprises in an...

Considers how small business owners perceive localbusiness relations and illuminates the nature and development of localmicro-business connections. After a review of economic and sociologicalaccounts of business cooperation, data from case studies of two rural markettowns in the north of England...