FARMERS AS ENTREPRENEURS: DEVELOPING COMPETITIVE SKILLS

By Gerard McElwee. 2006

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The aim of this literature review is to consider the main issues derived from studies published on the subject of farmers' skills and entrepreneurial capacity to determine which topics have emerged as areas of research. This literature review analyzes the topics which have been the subject of farm entrepreneurship research and suggest that there are some limited emergent trends in the literature and that a number of key topics are receiving higher levels of attention than others: namely farm diversification and farmers' enterprise skills. Farming is not a homogeneous sector; farmers operate in a tightly constrained and regulated, complex and multi-faceted environment, which acts as a significant barrier to entrepreneurial activity.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Farm diversification, entrepreneurship and technology adoption : analysis of upland farmers in Wales (2017, background): “It could be argued, on the basis of narrow de ﬁ - nition, that farmers are not entrepreneurs because the external market environment is subsidised and therefore not necessitating competitive responses (McElwee, 2006).”
Exploring market orientation, innovation, and financial performance in agricultural value chains in emerging economies (2017, background): “…orientation (H4) Financial performance ← Competitor orientation (H5) Financial performance ← Inter-functional coordination (H6) Financial performance ← Innovation (H7) tural value chains (McElwee, 2006), and specifically have failed to incorporate the context of an emerging nation such as Vietnam.”
An Examination of Social Media Role in Entrepreneurial Intention among Accounting Students: A SEM Study (2019, background): “The present literature has focused on the evolution of managers to entrepreneurs (Carter, 1998; Alsos et al., 2003; Hron, Macák, & Huml, 2009; McElwee, 2006).”
Supporting rural entrepreneurship: a review of conceptual developments from research to practice (2014, background): “McElwee (2006) notes that such activities are not typically analyzed separately from other entrepreneurial activities in the entrepreneurship literature, yet value-added agriculture remains an important business diversification strategy for many farm families.”
Exploring entrepreneurial skills and competencies in farm tourism (2012, background): “In a similar vein, later work by Mitchelmore and Rowley (2010) proposes an entrepreneurial competency model that maintains a distinction between ‘entrepreneurial’ and ‘business and management’ competencies, along with additional clusters for ‘human relations’ and 'conceptual and relationship’ compet”
The relationship between resources, entrepreneurial orientation and performance in farm-based ventures (2011, background): “…1999; Alsos and Carter 2006; Rønning and Kolvereid 2006), farmers’ entrepreneurial identity (Carter 1998; Vesala, Peura, and McElwee 2007) and skills (McElwee 2006; Pyysiäinen et al. 2006), as well as opportunity recognition and motivation for startup (Alsos, Ljunggren, and Pettersen 2003).”
Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey (2016, background): “In this sense, McElwee (2006) also suggests that a major challenge for the agricultural sector is enabling farmers to develop their entrepreneurial skills.”
Rural entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in the rural – between place and space (2015, background): “As suggested by McElwee and others (Vik and McElwee, 2011; McElwee, 2006; McElwee, 2008) the relationship between farming and entrepreneurship is complex.”
Exploring the strategic skills of farmers across a typology of farm diversification approaches (2010, background): “…in the UK supplement traditional incomes through farm diversification of some form (Defra, 2008) and the subject of farm diversification has attracted much attention among rural researchers for some considerable time (Heady, 1952, Johnson, 1967, McInerney et al 1989, McNally 2001, McElwee, 2006).”
The digital divide: Implications for agribusiness and entrepreneurship. Lessons from Wales (2019, background): “However, it is argued that farmers are not entrepreneurs because the external market environment at present is subsidised and therefore not necessitating competitive responses (McElwee, 2006).”