New firm formation in old industrial regions – a study of entrepreneurial in-migrants in Bergslagen, Sweden

Hedfeldt, Mona; Lundmark, Mats

doi:10.1080/00291951.2015.1011226

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“…Brouder (2012), for instance, talked about 'creative outposts' as tourism often acts as a catalyst for innovative local development and helps regenerate the (depleting) local social capital. A recent study in the old mining region of Bergslagen, at the southern edge of north Sweden, demonstrated that self-employed in-migrants are usually more active in other sectors of the economy than the locals (Hedfeldt and Lundmark, 2015). The study concluded that both in-migration and return migration, i.e.…”

Section: Evolution Of Urban-rural Relations In the Northmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The study concluded that both in-migration and return migration, i.e. the backflow of persons who have emigrated during the course of their working life from resource peripheries to other places, had a positive, significant and substantial effect on the vitality of the local entrepreneurial behaviour (Hedfeldt and Lundmark, 2015).…”

Section: Evolution Of Urban-rural Relations In the Northmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Placing northern development: The case of North Sweden

Dubois

Carson

2016

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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There has been increasing attention paid in the regional economic literature to how local rural actors are being actively engaged in globalisation processes. The bulk of this literature is concerned with rural areas which are proximate to large urban centres and feature somewhat mixed economies. ‘Resource peripheries’ in places like the Arctic and sub-Arctic north of Europe and North America, South America and Australasia have received less attention. Resource peripheries are seen as inherently dependent on external agents who control economic activity and markets for resource commodities. This paper argues that an apparent diminution of local agency in the shaping of relational space in resource peripheries may be a result of no attempt to find such agency. The paper discusses the reconfiguring of northern economies within ‘relational space’ that has occurred over the past 10 or 20 years, using the case of the two northern-most counties in Sweden (Västerbotten and Norrbotten) as an illustrative example. The case demonstrates the layers of activity that occur within these regions (intra-regional) and between northern and distant regions (inter-regional). It argues that these activities may be both institutional (based on regulations and formal arrangements) and functional. By using the example of North Sweden, the paper introduces a conceptual framework, labelled ARTE, which provides a useful support for making sense of the multi-dimensional processes that contemporary northern development is engaged in.

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Section: Evolution Of Urban-rural Relations In the Northmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Evolution Of Urban-rural Relations In the Northmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing northern development: The case of North Sweden

Dubois

Carson

2016

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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“…Henderson 2002 ; Dinis 2009 ) as well as on migrant entrepreneurship (e.g. Bosworth 2006 ; Hedfeldt and Lundmark 2015 ).…”

Section: Tourism Travellers Migrants and Lifestyle Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Tourism, Immigrants and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: The (In)coming of People as a Key Factor for Sustainability of Low-Density Territories—A Case Study in Portugal

Dinis

2021

Tourism, Hospitality &Amp; Event Management

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Using the lens of the new patterns of mobility and lifestyle entrepreneurship in the context of counterurbanization movements, this chapter explores the relationship between tourism and immigration, beyond the traditional approach of immigrants as tourism entrepreneurs. The study focusses on a Portuguese rural county, Penamacor, which, for several decades, has suffered a continuous exodus of population and the consequent aging of the remaining population but where, recently, there was a spontaneous phenomenon of foreign people arriving and settling in the area. Thus, through the case of Penamacor, this study aims to answer the following questions: Who are these migrants, and what are their motivations for mobility and to settle in the territory? Are they all the same? How do they make a living in Penamacor? In particular, it seeks to understand whether entrepreneurship (in tourism or other sectors) is a possibility of income generation for these immigrants. Furthermore, it intends to understand what the impact of these immigrants in the territory is, concerning the creation of wealth and well-being in the community. Do they act as community entrepreneurs? Does their presence in the territory generate other mobility flows, through the attraction of other (family and friends) tourists or immigrants?

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“…For example, newcomers are involved in restaurants in rural Sweden (Lundmark et al ), accommodation venues in Norway (Iversen and Jacobsen ), specialty food shops in the UK (Rogers ), wine‐making enterprises in New Zealand (Perkins et al ), and hospitality businesses in Canada (Siemens ). Returnees, including those who move back to a childhood residence (Mitchell and Shannon ) or to an ancestral home (King and Christou ), are also active, with returnee tourist entrepreneurs in Sweden (Hedfeldt and Lundmark ), the UK (Bosworth and Farrell ), and Canada (Rockett and Ramsey ) operating businesses in the hospitality sector.…”

Section: The Contextmentioning

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Are in‐migrant proprietors driving or enhancing cultural heritage tourism in transitioning resource‐dependent communities? The case of Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador

Mitchell

Shannon

2018

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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In-migrants' externally accumulated capital may influence path creation. Newcomer and returnee proprietors in Trinity use recombination, layering, and conversion to augment an existing branching innovating tourism trajectory.Civic-minded in-migrants helped create the path; their presence may be a precursor to private investment.Insufficient social, human, and economic capital may prevent economic transition in resource-dependent regions. Attraction of in-migrants with new perspectives and financial means may overcome this constraint and facilitate path creation in alternative industries. This paper seeks to determine if in-migrant proprietors initiate, or augment, cultural heritage tourism in transitioning rural regions. Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, is the setting for this study. Located on the Bonavista Peninsula, this former mercantile centre was once a hub in the historic Atlantic cod fishery, and today is one of the province's premier tourist destinations. To ascertain in-migrants' role in this transition, we contacted members of the business community and posed questions to reveal their characteristics, proprietorship routes, and tourism activities. Using a critical realism perspective, we identify trends (i.e., demi-regularities) in the information gathered, compare these empirical regularities to extant literature (i.e., abduction), and draw on documentation, and key informant interviews, to identify responsible conditions and generative mechanisms (i.e., retroduction). We find that counterurbanite proprietors are enhancing, rather than driving, an existing tourism trajectory, a situation we attribute to the earlier actions of civic-minded incomers, and local residents. Est-ce que les propri etaires qui sont des immigrants internes stimulent ou am eliorent le tourisme ax e sur le patrimoine culturel dans les collectivit es d ependantes des ressources transitionnelles ? Le cas de Trinity, a Terre-Neuve et Labrador Un capital social, humain et economique insuffisant peut empêcher la transition economique dans des r egions d ependantes des ressources. L'attraction d'immigrants internes qui ont de nouvelles id ees et des moyens financiers peut surmonter cet obstacle et faciliter la cr eation de trajectoires vers des industries de The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien remplacement. Cet article cherche a d eterminer si les propri etaires qui sont des immigrants internes amorcent ou augmentent le tourisme ax e sur le patrimoine culturel dans les r egions rurales en transition. Trinity, a Terre-Neuve et Labrador, est l'endroit o u cette etude est effectu ee. Situ e sur la p eninsule de Bonavista, cet ancien centre commercial etait jadis un carrefour de la pêche a la morue de l'Atlantique et est aujourd'hui l'une des principales destinations touristiques de la province. Pour d eterminer le rôle des immigrants internes dans cette transition, nous avons communiqu e avec des membres du milieu des affaires et pos e des questions pour r ev eler leurs caract er...

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New firm formation in old industrial regions – a study of entrepreneurial in-migrants in Bergslagen, Sweden

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Placing northern development: The case of North Sweden

Placing northern development: The case of North Sweden

Tourism, Immigrants and Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: The (In)coming of People as a Key Factor for Sustainability of Low-Density Territories—A Case Study in Portugal

Are in‐migrant proprietors driving or enhancing cultural heritage tourism in transitioning resource‐dependent communities? The case of Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador

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