Shining a spotlight on small rural businesses

How does their performance compare with urban

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12089554
AutoresJeremy Phillipson (0000-0003-3435-4862, Newcastle University), Pattanapong Tiwasing (0000-0001-9604-1656, Newcastle University, autor correspondente), Matthew Gorton (0000-0002-4579-5092, Newcastle University), Sara Maioli (0000-0001-9882-2392, Newcastle University), Robert Newbery (0000-0002-5762-7117, Newcastle University), Roger Turner (Newcastle University)
Ano2018
Volume68
Páginas230-239
Data de publicação2018-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Rural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0743-0167 • E-ISSN: 1873-1392
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.09.017
OpenAlexW2894655824
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências citadas41

Rural enterprises play an important economic role, contributing to national prosperity and wellbeing but are often a blind spot within rural development and wider economic policies and evidence. This paper presents an urban-rural analysis of a large scale survey of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It applies Propensity Score Matching to allow for an assessment of the effects of rurality on business performance. Results show that England's rural firms have similar levels of turnover to their urban counterparts, but are more likely to report a profit. The analysis also reveals rural firms to be significantly stronger exporters of goods and services and to have goods or services suitable for exporting. However, there are some weaknesses and obstacles to business success that concern significantly more rural than urban firms, that vary with the rurality of local districts, and which require the attention of policy makers and support providers seeking to achieve spatially-balanced and more equitable economic development

Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Goods and services · Market economy · Matching (statistics · Political science · Profit (economics · Propensity score matching · Prosperity · Rural area · Rural development · Rural economics · Rurality · Scale (ratio · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Rural development and sustainability