The new European rurality
Subtitle: strategies for small firms
By: edited by Teresa de Noronha Vaz, Eleanor J. Morgan, and Peter Nijkamp.
Contributors: Vaz, Teresa de Noronha.; Morgan, Eleanor J.; Nijkamp, Peter.
Series: Ashgate economic geography series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Agricultural industries -- Europe.; Rural development -- Europe.; Small business -- Europe -- Management.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: New perspectives on European rurality and entrepreneurship; title: Rural Europe and small firms : a strategic positioning and synthesis / Teresa de Noronha Vaz, Eleanor J. Morgan, and Peter Nijkamp; title: Entrepreneurship in small enterprises and local development / Teresa de Noronha Vaz; title: Determinants of structural change in peripheral regions; title: Accessibility, innovative milieu and the innovative activity of businesses in EU peripheral and lagging areas / Andrew Copus and Dimitris Skuras; title: Human capital as the critical factor for the development of Europe's rural peripheral areas / Lois Labrianidis; title: Agri-food districts : theory and evidence / Cristina Brasili and Roberto Fanfani; title: The embeddedness of small enterprises within the rural local economy of small and medium sized towns / Eveline S. Van Leeuwen and Peter Nijkamp; title: New strategies in small business development; title: Organizational success factors in local agri-food industries / Gabriella Vindigni, Peter Nijkamp, Giuseppina Carrà, and Iuri Peri; title: The implementation of information and communication technologies in SMES / Martine Boutary and M. Christine Monnoyer; title: Break out strategies of ethnic entrepreneurs / Tüzin Baycan Levent, Enno Masurel, and Peter Nijkamp; title: Rural entrepreneurship : an innovation and marketing perspective / Anabela Dinis; title: Case studies; title: The adoption of information and communication technologies among smaller food firms in rural areas of Greece / Elena Georgoudaki, Efthalia Dimara, and Dimitris Skuras; title: The allocation of public support to small food firms in Belgium, Ireland, and the UK / Tessa Avermaete, Jacques Viaene, and Eleanor J. Morgan in co-operation with Eamonn Pitts, Nick Crawford, Denise Mahon, and Xavier Gellynck; title: A medium term economic outlook for cyclical markets : a case study of Mexican pig farms / Myriam Villegas Sagarnaga, Rene Ochoa Ochoa, González José Salas, Edmundo Haro, and Figueroa Guillermina García; title: Adopting innovations in agriculture : an exploratory analysis using discrete choice models / Shlomo Bekhor, Daniel Shefer, and Mordechai Cohen; title: Assisting small and medium sized enterprises : innovation policies for rural areas / Federica Cisilino; title: Attitudes to territorial innovation processes in Raia Central Ibérica / Felisberto Marques Reigado, Paulo Alexandre Neto, and Maria Manuela dos Santos Natário.