Challenges, Responses and Available Resources: Success in Rural Small Businesses
Creators: name: Siemens, Lynne
Publisher: name: HSSCommons
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project management

description: &lt;p&gt;Rural communities and their residents aze exploring the potential of small business and entrepreneurship to address the economic changes they are facing. While these rural areas present many opportunities, business people in these areas face challenges which they must navigate to operate successfully. However, little is known about these specific challenges and the manner in which business owners respond to them. This paper reports on a qualitative study of small rural businesses in a rural region of Canada that begins to answer this question. The research found that these owners face particular challenges in the area of market size, labour availability, access to urban centres, infrastructure gaps, and large time demands. As they work to mitigate these, the owners draw upon locally available resources, such as themselves, their family, business, and community. The paper concludes with recommendations for government policies and programs to support economic development in these rural regions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Les collectivit&amp;eacute;s rurales et leurs r&amp;eacute;sidents &amp;eacute;valuent le r&amp;ocirc;le que peuvent jouer les petites entreprises et l&amp;#39;entrepreneuriat afin de r&amp;eacute;pondre aux changements &amp;eacute;conomiques auxquels ils font face. Malgr&amp;eacute; que ces r&amp;eacute;gions rurales offrent beaucoup d&amp;#39;opportunit&amp;eacute;s d&amp;#39;affaires, les gens d&amp;#39;affaires de ces r&amp;eacute;gions doivent surmonter certains d&amp;eacute;fis afin d&amp;#39;assurer le bon fonctionnement de leur entreprise. Il existe cependant peu d&amp;#39;information dans la litt&amp;eacute;rature au sujet des d&amp;eacute;fis sp&amp;eacute;cifiques auxquels ces gens d&amp;#39;affaires doivent faire face et sur les fa&amp;ccedil;ons dont ils s&amp;#39;y prennent pour les surmonter. Le travail suivant rapporte les r&amp;eacute;sultats d&amp;#39;une &amp;eacute;tude qualitative portant sur de petites entreprises rurales situ&amp;eacute;es dans une r&amp;eacute;gion rurale du Canada qui r&amp;eacute;v&amp;egrave;le des r&amp;eacute;ponses pr&amp;eacute;liminaires &amp;agrave; ces questions. L&amp;rsquo;&amp;eacute;tude a r&amp;eacute;v&amp;eacute;l&amp;eacute; que ces propri&amp;eacute;taires font face &amp;agrave; des d&amp;eacute;fis particuliers en ce qui a trait &amp;agrave; : la taille du march&amp;eacute;, la disponibilit&amp;eacute; de la main-d&amp;#39;oeuvre, l&amp;#39;acc&amp;egrave;s aux centres urbains, les lacunes en mati&amp;egrave;re d&amp;#39;infrastructure, et le grand nombre d&amp;#39;heures requises. Afin d&amp;#39;att&amp;eacute;nuer les probl&amp;egrave;mes engendr&amp;eacute;s par ces conditions particuli&amp;egrave;res, les propri&amp;eacute;taires d&amp;#39;entreprises se tournent vers les ressources disponibles localement, telles qu&amp;#39;eux-m&amp;ecirc;mes, leur famille, leur entreprise et leur collectivit&amp;eacute;. En conclusion, ce travail apporte des recommandations concernant des politiques et des programmes gouvernementaux destin&amp;eacute;s &amp;agrave; soutenir le d&amp;eacute;veloppement &amp;eacute;conomique dans ces r&amp;eacute;gions rurales.&lt;/p&gt;