Introduction: Researching Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development

Carter, Sara; Ljunggren, Elisabet; Welter, Friederike

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“…Most firms in the agricultural sector are owned and many operated by families, which means that more than any other kind of economic activity, agriculture occurs in a family context (Gasson & Errington 1993;Alsos et al, 2011). Thus, to neglect the direct role of family on entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector is likely to limit our understanding, and this contextual feature suggests that entrepreneurship research can learn about the role of family by studying agriculture.…”

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“…This is curious because while complex market regulatory mechanisms mask the need for individual enterprise and innovation, farmers using their entrepreneurial skills to engage in market-based activities demonstrate a capacity for disposition towards opportunity recognition and business growth (Carter, 1999;Alsos et al, 2011;Grande, 2011).…”

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“…Decades of policy reform, agricultural restructuring and the growth of vertical integration within the food and agri-business industries have reshaped the sector into larger farm units, but small family-owned farms have proven resilient (Alsos et al, 2011;Hendrickson et al, 2014;Moreno-Pérez et al, 2011). The sector is now typified both by the persistence of owner-operated farms and by strategically sophisticated approaches to markets and supply-chain relationships that are increasingly adopted by farmers (McElwee & Bosworth, 2010).…”

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Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/61277/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AbstractHeeding calls for contextualizing entrepreneurship research and for greater attention to the role of sector in entrepreneurship research, we conduct a systematic literature review of extant research in agricultural entrepreneurship. Recent and rapid vertical integration and rationalization within the agricultural sector provides a dynamic setting for scholars to investigate entrepreneurship theory and practice. We identify three key contextual dimensions of the agricultural sector; identity, family, and institutions, which provide promising opportunities for future research and the potential to contribute to and extend current theoretical and empirical analyses of entrepreneurship research.

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“…Within this canon, the focus on the household has been both explicit and sustained (Fuller, 1990;Ferguson and Olofsson, 2011;Jervell, 2011). The household is an appropriate empirical setting, not only because the farm business and the household are typically co-located but also because of the longstanding tradition in the agricultural sector of farm household pluriactivity (Fuller, 1990), the engagement of the farm household in income generating activities in addition to agricultural production (Carter, 2001;Alsos et al, 2011). Taking the household as the social and economic unit of analysis, 'pluriactive farm households' allocate resources between farm and non-farm activities, including diversified business activities (EfstratoglouTodoulou, 1990;Alsos and Carter, 2006;de Silva and Kodithuwakku, 2011).…”

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“…We looked for relevant cases within a spatial and industry context where previous studies have demonstrated the prevalence of portfolio entrepreneurship. In rural areas, there is a tradition of combining farming with other economic activities, and there is a high incidence of portfolio entrepreneurship among farmers in remote rural locations (Alsos, Carter, Ljunggren & Welter, 2011). By analysing four cases of farm-based households in remote rural areas of Scotland and Norway, we explore how farm households develop their business activities into a portfolio of businesses.…”

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Kinship and business: how entrepreneurial households facilitate business growth

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2014

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Building on studies that have stressed the importance of context and the role of the family in business growth, this study explores the role of the entrepreneurial household in the process of business development and growth. We seek to understand how household strategy influences the development of new businesses, the ways in which household characteristics and dynamics influence business growth strategy decisions, and how business portfolios are managed and developed by the household. To examine these questions, comparative case studies were undertaken drawing data from four entrepreneurial households located in remote rural regions of Norway and Scotland. The data reveals the role of the entrepreneurial household in the evolution of business creation and growth, examining the processual aspects of entrepreneurial growth, the interactions between business activities and entrepreneurial households, and how business portfolios are developed in practice. Three analytical themes emerged from the analyses: the tightly interwoven connections between the business and the household; the use of family and kinship relations as a business resource base; and how households mitigate risk and uncertainty through self-imposed growth controls. While prior studies have viewed entrepreneurial growth largely as an outcome of personal ambition and business strategy, these results reveal the importance of the entrepreneurial household and the household strategy in determining business growth activities.

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Small agricultural businesses' performance—What is the role of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental sustainability commitment?

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The role that the resources and capabilities of agricultural entrepreneurs play on both environmental performance (EP) and financial performance (FP) is still unclear. This study analyzes how small farms enhance EP and FP in an inland Portuguese region through the relationship between dynamic capabilities (DCs), entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and environmental sustainability commitment (ESC). Based on a sample of 160 fresh fruit farms and applying a partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), our study concludes that EO and ESC influence EP and FP positively.Hence, farms can achieve competitive advantage through mitigating their profound impacts on the environment as proposed by the natural resource-based view (NRBV).Farms are also improving DCs, but farmers respond to the higher environmental requirements of agricultural markets primarily through research and development (R&D) capabilities and not through marketing capabilities. Having as theoretical supports the NRBV and the DCs, our study contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms through which entrepreneurs enhance EP and FP in sectors with high environmental impacts such as agriculture. The findings suggest that entrepreneurship training projects may enable farmers to approach food security as a market opportunity and not only as rules they must follow.

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Introduction: Researching Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development

Cited by 45 publications

References 25 publications

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities

Kinship and business: how entrepreneurial households facilitate business growth

Small agricultural businesses' performance—What is the role of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental sustainability commitment?

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