Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community-based social enterprises

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dc.contributor.authorOlmedo, Lucasen
dc.contributor.authorRinne-Koski, Katja Marikaen
dc.contributor.authorO'Shaughnessy, Maryen
dc.contributor.authorMatilainen, Anneen
dc.contributor.authorLähdesmäki, Merjaen
dc.contributor.funderGovernment of Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderAcademy of Finlanden
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T11:35:00Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T11:35:00Z
dc.date.issued2024en
dc.description.abstractCommunity-led innovative solutions, including community-based social enterprises, have been brought to the fore as significant actors with the potential to contribute to neo-endogenous rural development. Through 34 interviews with stakeholders of four community-based social enterprises operating in rural Ireland and Finland, we analyse the role of these organisations in the institutionalisation of plural (socio-)economic relations within different rural areas of Europe. Our findings demonstrate how community-based social enterprises can act as enablers and supporters of local markets, channels of redistributive resources and coordinators of local reciprocity, thus, contributing to ‘institutional thickness’ within their localities. We also show how structural differences, such as the role of local government in Finland and Ireland, can partially explain the role of these organisations as rural development actors. Finally, our article stresses the relevance of developing research and policies from a socially embedded and pluralistic view of the economy to provide nuanced analysis and realistic solutions to the complex challenges that rural areas face. © 2023 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Rural Sociology.en
dc.description.sponsorshipGovernment of Ireland (NUI Postdoctoral Fellowship in Rural Development 2022); Academy of Finland (Research Grant Number: 333447)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationOlmedo, L., Rinne‐Koski, K.M., O'Shaughnessy, M., Matilainen, A. and Lähdesmäki, M. (2024) 'Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises', Sociologia Ruralis, 64(1), pp.82-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12463en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/soru.12463en
dc.identifier.endpage103en
dc.identifier.issn0038-0199en
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleSociologia Ruralisen
dc.identifier.startpage82en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16944
dc.identifier.volume64
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Incen
dc.rights© 2024, 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.subjectCommunity-based social enterprisesen
dc.subjectInstitutionalisationen
dc.subjectNeo-endogenous developmenten
dc.subjectPlural economyen
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectRural governanceen
dc.subjectSocial embeddednessen
dc.subject~Food Business and Development - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleSupport structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community-based social enterprisesen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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