Greetings colleagues and friends!
You may ask what Rural entrepreneurship has to do with international management field?
Rural entrepreneurs increasingly participate in global markets, leverage international networks, and innovate to meet international standards. First, rural entrepreneurs often target niche markets, which can extend internationally. Second, many rural enterprises are involved in agricultural production, natural resources, or artisanal products that are part of global supply chains. Third, rural areas increasingly attract FDI to enhance local industries like agriculture, energy, and tourism. Fourth, rural entrepreneurs often need to adapt their businesses to align with international standards, such as environmental sustainability and ethical labor practices. Finally, international management also facilitates knowledge transfer, allowing rural entrepreneurs to adopt innovative technologies and practices from abroad and big cities.
On behalf of an excellent team
Erik Monsen University of Vermont, Whitney Peake, Western Kentucky university and Simona Zollet, Hiroshima University we invite you to participate in a special issue on challenges, ideas and solutions for Rural entrepreneurship in Small Business Economics Journal.
Due to a substantial number of requests from interested authors, the deadline to submit full manuscripts to the upcoming "Rural Entrepreneurship" special issue has been changed to November 30th.
The call for papers on the journal website (https://link.springer.com/journal/11187/updates/26852204) and in the attachment is in the process of being updated, but we thought it best to spread the news right away.
Further, based on several inquiries, I would like to clarify that the special issue is open to everyone, independent of whether you attended the conference, you are from entrepreneurship field or not, whether you are international business, strategy, entrepreneurship, management, engineering or other scholar.
We will consider indiscriminately all manuscripts that relate to rural entrepreneurship - qualitative and qualitative as well as conceptual and empirical - independent of the home discipline of the researcher.
Best wishes
Maksim Belitski
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Maksim Belitski
Loyola University New Orleans
Reading
(504) 422-1449
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