Overview
- Includes coverage of sectors such as retail small business, and agriculture
- Explores minority female entrepreneurship with chapters on minority and social entrepreneurship
- Investigates the day to day business operations, network associations and motivations in managing the small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures amongst female owner-managers and entrepreneurs
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Focusing on nascent firms, established growing firms and established plateaued forms within the northern inland New South Wales regional locations in Australia, this book explores the manifestation of entrepreneurship. In particular, the authors examine the state and status of regional entrepreneurship in the bioregions and investigate how gender plays out in the entrepreneurial space. The authors present a detailed macro environmental framework, national and international literature syntheses and the differences between regional and urban businesses exploring the secondary data. Through interviews and primary data gathering, the authors explore the context in which the businesses operate and showcase the uniqueness of regional embeddedness, place-based initiatives, networking opportunities and communitarian values. Insightful reading for anyone interested in the facets regional entrepreneurship and gender studies, this book provides important implications for academic scholars, government officials, business practitioners, financial institutions, and other stakeholders who are involved in effective formulation of innovative business growth strategies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Associate Professor Sujana Adapa works in the UNE Business School at the University of New England. Her research interests include gender studies covering leadership and entrepreneurship in the regional context. She is one of four Board of Directors for Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Subba Reddy Yarram is a Senior Lecturer in Finance in the UNE Business School at the University of New England. His research covers corporate governance and small business economics/management and his research appeared in reputed journals. He serves on the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Board.
Professor Alison Sheridan is a Professor of Management in the UNE Business School at the University of New England. Her research interests include gender studies. She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Life Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurship in Regional Communities
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Relevance of Embeddedness, Networking, Empowerment and Communitarian Values
Authors: Sujana Adapa, Alison Sheridan, Subba Reddy Yarram
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60559-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60558-2Published: 17 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60561-2Published: 17 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60559-9Published: 16 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 324
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Diversity Management/Women in Business