2019
DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2019.1600238
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Placing entrepreneurship and firming small town economies: manufacturing firms, adaptive embeddedness, survival and linked enterprise structures

Abstract: SMEs make a major contribution to the economy of cities and places. The relationship between firms and place is increasingly explained through the application of city-based externality models. Such explanations have limited validity in a number of contexts. One of these is in the economies of small-and medium-sized towns and communities (SMST). Whilst convention has sought to apply core-periphery explanations to the functioning of firms within SMSTs, the economies of SMSTs and entrepreneurial processes of SME … Show more

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“…In this sociologically‐informed analysis, individuals are social agents within wider social structures. This literature has made valuable contributions to understanding people and organisations in place, but it offers ‘only limited insight in identifying embeddedness as a continual process of adaptation’ (Salder & Bryson 2019, p. 4). This is a key point.…”
Section: Embedding Worship In Place and Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this sociologically‐informed analysis, individuals are social agents within wider social structures. This literature has made valuable contributions to understanding people and organisations in place, but it offers ‘only limited insight in identifying embeddedness as a continual process of adaptation’ (Salder & Bryson 2019, p. 4). This is a key point.…”
Section: Embedding Worship In Place and Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is unfortunate. There are many different forms of urban experience including important differences between global or extraordinary cities (Taylor, 2013) compared with more ordinary cities (Salder & Bryson, 2019). City-regions are complex, dynamic and evolving systems.…”
Section: Reading and Understanding Citiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This reflects a form of local embeddedness. There are many different forms of embeddedness including emotional that reflects attachment to a place (Salder and Bryson, 2019). In addition, strategic embeddedness occurs when relationships with co-located firms and institutions provides a firm with critical inputs into its operational processes.…”
Section: Worcestershire Crematorium and Swimming Poolmentioning
confidence: 99%