Developing relationships within the framework of local economic development in Spain

Izquierdo, Carmen Camarero; Carrión, Carlos Hernández; Gutiérrez, Sonia San Martín

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“…Ateljevic & Doorne, 2000;Shaw, 2014). Literature has investigated the economic impact and development strategies of rural tourism entrepreneurship (Camarero Izquierdo, Carrión, & Gutiérrez, 2008;PoloPeña, Frías-Jamilena, & Rodríguez Molina, 2013;Tinsley & Lynch, 2001;Wang & Fesenmaier, 2007), where small firms 'are the foundation of the tourism product' (Komppula, 2014, p. 365). Further research on small tourism firm management (e.g.…”

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Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

Kallmuenzer

Peters

2017

Tourism Recreation Research

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Family firms dominate the rural tourism industry, and within these firms family related interests guide entrepreneurial behaviour. This study utilises the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-performance relationship to investigate which kind of entrepreneurial behaviour is important in order for rural tourism family firms to perform well. Considering the moderating effect of firm size, findings based on a sample of 198 firms and 4 follow-up interviews with owner-managers show that Innovativeness and Proactiveness are relevant variables to explain performance, while Risk-Taking is not. In addition, the Proactiveness-performance effect was negatively impacted by micro firm size. Initiatives to foster firm collaboration to overcome the disadvantage of small firm size and to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation are suggested. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

Kallmuenzer

Peters

2017

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Authors all over the world have analyzed and discussed the instruments and activities used by local-level authorities in order to support local economic development [9,13,19,53,54]. Most authors when assessing the degree of effectiveness of LGs' instruments supporting entrepreneurship in Poland have pointed out the difficulties in Polish conditions.…”

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“…Local government (LG) is increasingly involved in supporting entrepreneurship and local development [8]. The role of LG in local development has been widely discussed in research studies [9][10][11][12][13][14][15], which have pointed out that local, regional, and national entrepreneurial development programming is complex, dependent on the type of organization and stakeholders involved, and requires coordination. The research findings published in [16] indicated that policy makers need to understand the role of public sector institutions in the creation of local entrepreneurship, as this role can extend into innovative leadership in governance of enterprises and entrepreneurship at the local and regional tiers.…”

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Bottom-Up Initiatives Undertaken by Local Governments to Support Entrepreneurship

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The present paper deals with issues related to activities undertaken by local government. The article focuses on the identification and assessment of the significance of local government’s different bottom-up initiatives that support development of local entrepreneurship. The article also indirectly discusses the importance of activities referring to energy efficiency. Through the digitization process and by using digital tools, LGs realize projects, improve local actors’ awareness, and finally achieve new challenges such as a higher proportion of gross final energy consumption being from renewable sources. The aim of the paper is to present the relationship between the LGs’ entrepreneurial activities, which we call bottom-up initiatives, and the local entrepreneurship level, understood as the number of entrepreneurs active on the territory of a LG. This paper presents the results of research carried out on the bottom-up initiatives undertaken by Polish local governments to support entrepreneurship. The research was based on survey and statistical tools and stepwise regression analysis. In the paper, bottom-up initiatives undertaken by local governments (such as organizing events at the national or regional scale that enable networking among entrepreneurs or establishing departments for supporting local entrepreneurship that offer cooperation with local entrepreneurs) were found to influence the number of entrepreneurs active in local government territories. The paper concludes that local governments and their bottom-up activities are an important factor influencing local entrepreneurship development. The presented research results have implications for policy makers and may be useful for local governments in Poland and in other countries in the context of supporting entrepreneurship by undertaking bottom-up initiatives at the local level.

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“…In this context, the debate on decentralization has evolved from theoretical arguments to empirical demonstration and from the general to specifics (Azfar et al, 2001), having emerged, in the last thirty years, a current of studies that investigates the development and impact of local economic development initiatives, giving major importance to the role of institutions (and specifically local governments) and participatory networks in local economic development (DeFilippis, 1999;Barberia and Biderman, 2010;Negoita and Block, 2012). In fact, in the last few years, economists and politicians have paid increasingly more attention to models of local development and to policies of local intervention (Camarero Izquierdo et al, 2008) and "[l]ocal economic development has become one of the major public policies emphasized in many countries during the past several decades" (Liou, 2009: 29).…”

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A Descentralização das Políticas Públicas para a Promoção da Internacionalização das PME. Uma Explicação Teórica

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2014

Rev. Port. de Estud. Reg.

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As PME enfrentam vários obstáculos no seu processo de internacionalização que não podem superar sozinhas, forçando-as a permanecer domésticas e, portanto, em desvantagem em relação a concorrentes que adotam uma perspetiva de negócios mais global. A ação do governo pode ajudar as PME a superar as suas limitações e tem vindo a desempenhar um papel cada vez mais importante na promoção das exportações, uma área onde o Governo é normalmente um ator muito ativo. Isso contribuiu para a ideia de que os programas e agências de promoção de exportação são hoje instrumentos fundamentais no apoio às PME. Por estas razões, a formulação de uma estratégia nacional de promoção das exportações tem estado na agenda dos países em todo o mundo. A política de descentralização é hoje uma realidade enquanto reforma do modelo do setor público e estratégia de desenvolvimento. Do ponto de vista da descentralização, é reconhecido que as iniciativas se devem basear no território e ser geridas localmente, sendo a descentralização do poder e a responsabilidade para o nível local um fator importante no desenvolvimento local e regional. Apesar de extensa investigação sobre a descentralização, o papel dos governos locais na promoção da internacionalização das empresas tem sido bastante negligenciado na literatura, quer na área da ciência regional, quer na dos negócios internacionais. Este artigo procura preencher esta lacuna fornecendo uma sistematização da literatura que liga as políticas de promoção da internacionalização, da descentralização e da internacionalização das empresas.

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Developing relationships within the framework of local economic development in Spain

Cited by 19 publications

References 58 publications

Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

Entrepreneurial behaviour, firm size and financial performance: the case of rural tourism family firms

Bottom-Up Initiatives Undertaken by Local Governments to Support Entrepreneurship

A Descentralização das Políticas Públicas para a Promoção da Internacionalização das PME. Uma Explicação Teórica

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