Reconceptualizing Rural Entrepreneurship Discourse from a Social Constructionist Perspective: A Case Study from Iran

Shahraki, Hassan; Movahedi, Reza

doi:10.1080/19436149.2016.1253185

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“…Pueden ser buscadores de renta, espectador de los cambios o también se les considera como individuos que dependen de otros o del contexto. (Smit, 2004), (Llambí Insua & Perez Correa, 2004), (Chaves, Magalhães, Benedetti, Blos, & da Silva, 2010), (Bosworth & Atterton, 2012), (Shahraki & Movahedi, 2017) Flexible Aquellos con mayor capacidad para reorganizar su negocio. (Smit, 2004), (Llambí Insua & Perez Correa, 2004), (Chaves, Magalhães, Benedetti, Blos, & da Silva, 2010), (Bosworth & Atterton, 2012), (Shahraki & Movahedi, 2017) Restringido Capacidad limitada que los hace vulnerables al cambio.…”

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Emprendimiento rural: una aproximación histórica

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2022

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Este trabajo muestra la evolución histórica del papel del emprendedor rural, los roles asumidos según los cambios de contexto en el tiempo y nuevas conceptualizaciones entorno al emprendimiento rural que ya no debe ser visto solo como vinculado a la función agrícola, sino al territorio, lo que da espacio para que se establezcan otros tipos de empresas no agrícolas en la ruralidad y sean considerados como emprendimiento rural. Esta labor se realizó gracias a una exploración en profundidad y posterior recopilación de bibliografía de bases de datos en el periodo comprendido entre 1756 a2018, definiendo una ecuación de búsqueda que permitió encontrar 5220 documentos y después de una refinación y la utilización del gestor bibliográfico Mendeley®, quedó un total de 443 documentos, que fueron procesados, leídos y categorizados en una matriz bibliográfica. Como resultado se observa una evolución conceptual del papel del emprendedor que se caracteriza por tener varios roles y descripciones, así como del emprendimiento rural, el cual es visto como la creación de una empresa en un entorno rural y donde ya no depende solo de la función agrícola, lo que abre paso para que se desarrollen otro tipo de negocios no agrícolas en el territorio, trayendo consigo un nuevo enfoque por explorar en la literatura sobre emprendimiento.

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Emprendimiento rural: una aproximación histórica

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“…There are steadfast supporters of entrepreneurship representing the significant relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth and development [1][2][3]15,16]. Moreover, this phenomenon has been criticized sociologically and anthropologically in numerous studies [4][5][6][7][8][17][18][19]. Today, considering the reports and projects of Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (GEM), the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth and development is taken for granted, and mentioning the research praising entrepreneurship is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

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Three-Dimensional Paradigm of Rural Prosperity: A Feast of Rural Embodiment, Post-Neoliberalism, and Sustainability

Shahraki¹

2022

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Each practical action in rural areas should be based on a comprehensive, new, and innovative theoretical paradigm. For nearly three decades, the global economic system has embraced rural entrepreneurship as a “productive” and innovative strategy in rural development in many countries, including both underdeveloped and developed countries. At present, we have large companies, which due to government development interventions, are replaced with small- and medium-sized businesses under inflexible and extreme entrepreneurialism. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to shed light on the prevailing entrepreneurship practice and discourse, criticize them, and finally introduce a new paradigm known as “paradigm of rural prosperity” (PRP). In this work, Aram Ziai’s theory of skeptical post-development was used, along with Campbell Jones and André Spicer’s critical theory of entrepreneurship and Rosenqvist’s theory of the conceptualization of rurality and rural environment called “hermeneutical realism”. The present paper attempts to base the paradigm of rural prosperity on three pillars of analysis and explanation: (a) rural embodiment, (b) neoliberalism, and (c) concept of sustainability. Although some case studies in Iran have been used as empirical evidence, this paper argues that the paradigm of rural prosperity is universal in nature and can be used in any geographical and cultural context to provide new rural development.

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“…The Elder-Vass's theory is a steering path between constructionism and realism in order to combine these and reach concepts such as discourse efficacy and structure-agency linkage. So, Discourse is to be understood here, in this paper, in a post-Foucault sense, based on Elder-Vass' description of a realist, or post-Foucauldian, theory of discourse as '[a] way of theorizing the impact of discourse on the social world that is moderately social constructionist without denying the significance of material reality, the human individual or social structures (for in detail information please see: Shahraki & Movahedi, 2017 Little (1999Little ( , 2005 criticize the dominant and positivist imagination of rurality and present the post-modern discourse about the countryside, especially the research done by Murdoch & Pratt, 2005 (Ibid., pp. 49-67).…”

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“…The paper has gained from the social constructionism (Elder-Vass, 2012;Gergen, 2001;Hacking, 1999;Parker, 1998) as a post-modern theoretical foundation for explaining the current rural entrepreneurship discourse and practice, content analysis of the transcripts, and for proposing a theoretical model for the future researches and investigations. Since the social constructionism finds its roots in the post-modern as a school of thinking, so it can be said that the sociological (Thornton, 1999;Thornton, Ribeiro-Soriano, & Urbano, 2011), anthropological (Escobar, 2004(Escobar, , 2005(Escobar, , 2009Friedman, 2006), and discursive (Cope, 2003;Nicholson & Anderson, 2005, Ogbor, 2000Shahraki, Movahedi, & Yaghoubi Farani, 2016;Shahraki & Movahedi, 2017) works about the (rural) entrepreneurship and development are able to constitute an enriched background for this research. Within several works, the paper especially draws on the Escobar's (2004Escobar's ( , 2005Escobar's ( , 2009 and Ziai's (2013Ziai's ( , 2015 ideas and concepts.…”

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Rethinking rural entrepreneurship in the era of globalization: some observations from Iran

Shahraki

Heydari

2019

J Glob Entrepr Res

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This longitudinal qualitative study aimed at investigating and analyzing rural entrepreneurship in the era of globalization. The main goal of this paper is to form and present a theoretical alternative for mainstream economic rural entrepreneurship. For this purpose, 40 entrepreneurs, experts, and practitioners in the agricultural and rural sector were specifically selected and textual data analysis was done by content analysis method using a strategy of theoretical coding (open and axial). The interviews have been done in two time periods from 2015 to 2018 in four Iran provinces. The results show that it is possible to separate four distinct types of rural entrepreneurship in Iran: (1) the orthodox globalized economic rural entrepreneurship, which is based on the productivist approach and economic development in agriculture; (2) the globalized technological rural entrepreneurship with the aim of the commercialization of agriculture through heavy using of technology; (3) the globalized applied scientific rural entrepreneurship with the emphasis on the applied literature in the history of development; and finally (4) the (rural) entrepreneurship as a supplementary of (rural) development, which tries to go beyond the dichotomies like rural-urban, and the mainstream entrepreneurialism. The main suggestion of the research is the so-called "Anti-globalized Cultural Rural Entrepreneurship" that is a constructed rural entrepreneurship, and actually a process aiming to shift and transform the rural entrepreneurship discourse to the multifunctional agriculture and social movement domain.

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Reconceptualizing Rural Entrepreneurship Discourse from a Social Constructionist Perspective: A Case Study from Iran

Cited by 7 publications

References 67 publications

Emprendimiento rural: una aproximación histórica

Emprendimiento rural: una aproximación histórica

Three-Dimensional Paradigm of Rural Prosperity: A Feast of Rural Embodiment, Post-Neoliberalism, and Sustainability

Rethinking rural entrepreneurship in the era of globalization: some observations from Iran

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