‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities

The Rural Lifeworld as a Pathway to Career Identity: Lessons From a Non-School Internship Study

“…Entrepreneurship Education in the Rural Lifeworld 1. Focus on the process, not pipelines: The career narrative finding supports Redhead & Bika's (2022) assertion that a focus on outputs, "treating place as instrumental resource," misses important processes that might catalyze entrepreneurs who choose to commit the endeavors of their enterprise to a spatial region and its people (p. 222). Such entrepreneurial "regional champions" create prosperous innovative clusters in unexpected, often rural places, because of place attachment (Feldman, 2014).…”

“…2. Use CCCL to create immersive experiences: In this study participants interactions with place-based assets often led participants to develop an alternative narrative to the story of their local, rural place as “depleted space,” lacking resources or opportunities (Johnstone & Lionais, 2004), a key barrier to retaining local entrepreneurs committed to assuming shared responsibility for prosperous local futures (Redhead & Bika, 2022). 3.…”

An introduction to Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship

“…Another long-standing theme of embeddedness research is rooted in human geography. It is mainly concerned with place as the representational or symbolic dimension of the spatial context (Kibler et al, 2015;Müller and Korsgaard, 2018;Redhead and Bika, 2022). For example, being embedded in close-knit communities encourages a sense of collaboration and cooperation that helps entrepreneurs to respond to the common environmental challenges or crises events (McNaughton and Gray, 2017).…”

“…What becomes evident from this discussion and articulated into detail in Korsgaard et al (2022), is that embeddedness is a dynamic and multidimensional concept that changes over time and encompasses multiple levels of analysis. The studies in this book engage implicitly or explicitly with a number of these conversations and propose fruitful avenues for further research that are sensitive to these embedding processes and their temporality (Wigren-Kristoferson et al, 2019; see also Redhead and Bika, 2022). We now introduce the chapters in this book.…”

Female gender interests and education in women entrepreneurs’ definition of success in Uganda

“…Research has long shown that cultural environment can enable or constrain entrepreneurial activities, and that the micro-level processes underlying such activities often go unrecognized, without details of how, why, and when embedded social values relate to each other and integrate with the company in different places (Redhead and Bika, 2022;Hindle 2010).…”