Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Pato, ML (Author) Other; Aurora Teixeira (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Sociologia Ruralis

Vol. 56

Pages: 3-28

ISSN: 0038-0199

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 148 Citations

Scopus - 195 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00J-ZWT

DOI: 10.1111/soru.12058

Abstract (EN): Entrepreneurship has become a dynamic field of research in the last two decades. However, rural entrepreneurship' has been largely overlooked. It seems therefore timely to present a quantitative survey of the literature in this particular area. Based on 181 articles on rural entrepreneurship published in journals indexed in Scopus, we found that rural entrepreneurship is an essentially European concern, whose most prolific authors are affiliated with institutions in the UK and Spain. Organisational characteristics, policy measures and institutional frameworks and governance have attracted considerable attention in recent years, being considered emergent topics of research. In contrast, theory building has not attracted much research over the period in analysis, which suggests that the theoretical body of rural entrepreneurship is still incipient, hindering the establishment of its boundaries and of a suitable research agenda. Empirical literature on rural entrepreneurship has focused mainly on developed countries, most notably, the UK, the USA, Spain, Finland and Greece. Given the potential rural entrepreneurship represents for less developed and underdeveloped countries, more research on the topic targeting these countries is an imperative.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 26