Rurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges – The role of rural social enterprises

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dc.contributor.authorOlmedo, Lucasen
dc.contributor.authorvan Twuijver, Maraen
dc.contributor.authorO'Shaughnessy, Maryen
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderSocial Finance Foundationen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T11:35:02Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T11:35:02Z
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.description.abstractRural social enterprises are increasingly recognized as organisations that contribute to local development by providing goods and/or services to meet community needs and by fostering inclusive social and governance relations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how rural social enterprises engage in a plurality of socio-economic relations with different dimensions of their ‘place’ when contributing to the development of their localities. Based on three in-depth case studies of social enterprises operating in rural Ireland, our findings illustrate how rural social enterprises engage with locational, institutional, material and identity aspects of their ‘place’, which indicates their ‘placial embeddedness’. Moreover, our findings also demonstrate how these organisations engage in, and combine market, redistribution and reciprocity relations, which indicates their ‘substantive hybridity’. Based on the interrelated nature of these findings, we argue that it is through a process of placial substantive hybridity that rural social enterprises foster social innovation in order to contribute to an integrated development of their localities. They harness and (re)valorise (untapped) local resources while complementing these with other resources from extra-local sources and accommodate and/or respond to structural-exogenous forces based on the needs of their local population in line with neo-endogenous rural development. © 2021 The Authorsen
dc.description.sponsorshipHorizon 2020 (721999)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationOlmedo, L., van Twuijver, M. and O'Shaughnessy, M. (2023) 'Rurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges–The role of rural social enterprises', Journal of Rural Studies, 99, pp.272-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.020en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.020en
dc.identifier.endpage283en
dc.identifier.issn7430167en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Rural Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage272en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16948
dc.identifier.volume99
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltden
dc.relation.project721999en
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors. This work is made available under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectHybridityen
dc.subjectNeo-endogenous rural developmenten
dc.subjectPlaceen
dc.subjectRural social enterprisesen
dc.subjectSocial innovationen
dc.subjectSubstantive economyen
dc.titleRurality as context for innovative responses to social challenges – The role of rural social enterprisesen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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