Theorising illegal rural enterprise: is everyone at it?

Gerard McElwee; Robert Smith; Peter Somerville

doi:10.18061/1811/51123

Theorising illegal rural enterprise: is everyone at it?

Gerard McElwee, Robert Smith, Peter Somerville

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Abstract

Illegal entrepreneurship in the rural is under researched and scrutinised, yet it occupies a distinctive space in entrepreneurship practice in terms of how it is construed and how it is enacted. This is a theoretical paper which provides a conceptual framework for defining ‘ideal types’ of illegal rural enterprise activity in order to better frame the phenomenon. Four types of enterprise activity are provided which suggest how the activities of illegal entrepreneurship in the rural can be categorised. This article is valuable to researchers and policy makers in that the framework suggests diversity in illegal rural enterprises which can manifest differing motives and modes of operation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	40-62
Number of pages	23
Journal	International Journal of Rural Criminology
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18061/1811/51123
Publication status	Published - Dec 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Illegal Rural Entrepreneurs
Opportunity Entrepreneurs
Rural Economy
Value Adding/Value Extracting Entrepreneurship

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Theorising illegal rural enterprise: is everyone at it?

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