Entrepreneurship and community economic development [[electronic resource] /] / Monica C. Diochon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783402703321
• Autore: Diochon Monica C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-86095-X; 9786612860959; 0-7735-7084-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetti: Community development; Entrepreneurship; Community development - Canada; Développement communautaire; Entrepreneuriat; Développement communautaire - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Theory and Practice of Endogenous Development: Roots and Challenges -- The Exogenous/Endogenous Development Debate in Canada -- Community Economic Development: The Community as a Development Actor -- A Conceptual Framework for Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation -- Methodology and Research Design -- Analysis and Results -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- The Community Enterprise Emergence Model -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the goals of regional policies is to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the nation's smaller and more remote communities. Policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in the Community Economic Development approach as a way of achieving this aim. In Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development Monica Diochon examines the development processes adopted by two rural, single-industry Canadian communities confronting the collapse of their ; economic bases. She argues that a community's effectiveness in influencing economic development depends on the extent to which entrepreneurship is encouraged and shows that, while a number of factors influence enterprise, economic activities that are community-determined and provide varied opportunities to participate in achieving short-term self-sustaining strategic outcomes are particularly important.