Community-based social enterprises as actors for neo-endogenous rural development: A multi-stakeholder approach

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dc.contributor.authorOlmedo, Lucasen
dc.contributor.authorO'Shaughnessy, Maryen
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T11:34:59Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T11:34:59Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.description.abstractRural shrinking is an ongoing phenomenon in many parts of Europe. Against this backdrop neo-endogenous rural development has been gaining support as a conceptual and policy approach which stress the combination of local and external actors, resources and forces for enhancing an integrated development of rural areas. Within this governance framework rural social enterprises have been stressed as potential key actors contributing to rural development. This paper explores, through 36 semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders of two Irish community-based rural social enterprises, the role of these organizations in contributing to a neo-endogenous development. Our findings show how their mobilization of the social attachment of their members, their collective character and their delivery of tangible results have been key to develop collaborative dynamics with stakeholders from different sectors and situated at various spatial scales. Moreover, these organizations have accommodated global-exogenous forces buffering their effects through locally-focused solutions which address the needs of their rural communities, despite their incapacity to address the causes of these global-exogenous trends. We conclude that rural community-based social enterprises can play a relevant role in contributing to neo-endogenous development, however, institutional frameworks that address the diversity of rural areas and that enhance balanced collaborations among different rural development stakeholders are a precondition to unlock their potential. © 2022 The Authors. Rural Sociology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Rural Sociological Society (RSS).en
dc.description.sponsorshipHorizon 2020 (721999)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationOlmedo, L. and O'Shaughnessy, M. (2022) 'Community‐based social enterprises as actors for neo‐endogenous rural development: a multi‐stakeholder approach', Rural Sociology, 87(4), pp.1191-1218. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12462en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12462en
dc.identifier.endpage1218en
dc.identifier.issn0036-0112en
dc.identifier.issued4
dc.identifier.journaltitleRural Sociologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1191en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16942
dc.identifier.volume87
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRural Sociological Societyen
dc.relation.project721999en
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors. This work is made available under the CC BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectRural community-based social enterprisesen
dc.subjectNeo-endogenous developmenten
dc.subjectRural shrinkingen
dc.titleCommunity-based social enterprises as actors for neo-endogenous rural development: A multi-stakeholder approachen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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