... producers within the rural communities in Africa. However, employment in agriculture has been declining over the 2012–2017 period (World Development Indicator [WDI], 2020). Smallholder farms constitute a large proportion of the total farm size in Africa. In recent times, agribusiness and agro-industries...

...Fernando Tavares; Eulália Santos; Ana Diogo; Vanessa Ratten Purpose Human beings spend about a third of their day working, so it is very important that they are integrated into a good community work environment. When the setting is teleworking in a family and housing context, it is important...

... campaigns. Furthermore, this research explore the role of communities within crowdfunding platforms. Design/methodology/approach The study leverages the network theory and uses a quantitative methodology based on a regression analysis (ordinary least squares). Data collection was done through Ulule...

... retail quarter in Britain, adding an additional ethnicity to the roster of identifiable geographic business locations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 United Kingdom Urban areas Ethnic groups Communities Sustainable development Immigrants Ethnic business quarters Ethnic business...

...Thomas Cooper Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the management of strategic public sector risks in communities and municipalities. Design/methodology/approach This research collates information on public sector risk management through a series of key informant interviews...

.... In these austere times, models of social and community enterprise are becoming more important. This corresponds to the emergence of theories of community‐based entrepreneurship and social enterprise as explanatory variables. Such theories are used to label enterprising behaviour enacted within our communities...

...Nuttamon Teerakul; Renato A. Villano; Fiona Q. Wood; Stuart W. Mounter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a framework developed for assessing Community‐based Enterprises' (CBEs') impacts on poverty reduction at the household level in northern Thailand, in the context of the UN...

... The paper is based on fieldwork conducted in the Chinatown of Liverpool, England. It utilises interviews, surveys and observation to capture the emergence of the organisation of the community. Findings The paper demonstrates how the availability of regeneration funds can create incentives for voluntary...

...Satyendra Singh Purpose The two decades of civil war have left Angola plagued with about ten millions landmines, causing destructions to human conditions and communities. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to create awareness of the landmine‐related problems among the business community...

... to interrelate social, civic, community, and other entrepreneurships in search of a more unifying concept of societal entrepreneurship for Sweden and beyond. Design/methodology/approach As part of a larger study, Swedish researchers and practitioners promoting some kind of entrepreneurship with societal...

...Howard Frederick; Peter Wiltshier; Andrew Cardow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight indigenous and endogenous components of community capacity development through a focus on enterprise with renewed vigour and fervency attributable to local power elites and local collaboration...

...Thomas Cooney; Odd Jarl Borch; Anniken Førde; Lars Rønning; Ingebjørg Kluken Vestrum; Gry Agnete Alsos Purpose This paper aims to focus on the role of the community entrepreneur and the process of community entrepreneurship. It seeks to emphasize the social context as critical for gaining access...

...Benson Honig; Leo Paul Dana Purpose To examine communities that temporarily demonstrated successful social and economic success, but regressed, or may have cycled through periods marked by unusual success and unusual failure. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse events in two...

...Sibylle Heilbrunn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors influencing entrepreneurial intensity. More specifically the study addresses the following objectives: propose a way to measure entrepreneurial intensity within the community context in order to determine entrepreneurial...

...Leo Paul Dana; Robert Brent Anderson Purpose This paper aims to give an account – using photographs as well as words – to describe a North American indigenous community that is retaining pre‐contact Promethean values. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts as its approach ethnographic...

...Fikret Berkes; Iain J. Davidson‐Hunt Purpose The goal of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework to understand the processes by which rural communities are using commons‐based social enterprises to engage global actors and forge local places. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

... Communities Integration Globalization International politics Economic history Whilst there are many books on the European Union (EU), this recently published book by four scholars is a comprehensive and important addition to the research on Europe. As the title of the book suggests, the EU...