Portfolio entrepreneurship in the farm sector: indigenous growth in rural areas?
Portfolio entrepreneurship in the farm sector: indigenous growth in rural areas?
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农业部门的组合创业：农村地区的本土增长？
DOI：
10.1080/08985629800000002
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
5.6
通讯作者：
S. Carter
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作者：
S. Carter
尽管多重企业所有权直到最近才在小型企业的研究文献中引起广泛的思考，但农业学者一直报告说，许多农场企业将农业生产与其他创收活动结合起来，这种“多元化”一直是农业部门的一个重要而独特的特征。本文报告了对剑桥郡296名农场主的企业所有权活动进行调查的结果。调查结果显示，企业所有权活动非常广泛，尤其是在年轻和受过良好培训的农场主中。有人认为，最好将额外的业务活动视为从现有资产多样化到业务组合所有权的连续体。虽然农场通常被排除在农村创业的小企业分析之外，但本文得出的结论是，农民是拥有小企业人口的重要组成部分。这不仅表现在他们拥有农场企业，而且表现在他们从事以农场为中心的多样化活动的倾向、他们开办新的非农业企业的能力以及他们向外部企业出租农场土地和建筑物。
Although multiple business ownership has only recently attracted extensive contiideration within the small firms' research literature, agricultural scholars have consistently reported that many farm businesses combine agricultural production with other income-generating activities and that such'pluriactivity'has always been an important and distinctive feature of the farm sector. This paper reports the results of a survey that investigated the business ownership activities of 296 farm owners in Cambridgeshire. The results reveal extensive business ownership activities, particularly among younger and better trained farm owners. It is argued that additional business activities are best viewed as a continuum from the diversification of existing assets to the ownership of a portfolio of businesses. Although farms are normally excluded from small business analyses of rural entrepreneurship, the paper concludes that farmers are an important element of the small business owning population. This is demonstrated not only in their ownership of farm businesses, but also in their propensity to engage in farm-centrt: d diversification activities, their ability to start new non-farm enterprises and in their rental of farm land and buildings to external businesses.