What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit economic development, let alone community-led forms promoting democracy, at least not since 1980s socialism. But times are changing, and case provides some telling examples of what is now possibl...

Playful approaches include many benefits for higher education. Here, they denote elements of playful learning that invite students to engage with various challenges related imagination, innovation, and co-creation. As stated in earlier research, follows the constructivism approach seeking be active participants their process, tries offer them surmountable learn while being intrinsically motivat...

This article concerns the rise of young entrepreneurship education programs in 1980s Sweden, which entered schools surprisingly early and quickly, backed by organized Swedish business. The increased popularity toward end twentieth century many European welfare states is usually associated with a shift neoliberal, market-oriented, policies. It argued here that an important reason for entrepreneu...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that influence sustainability rural grocery stores and assess effects ongoing consolidation spatial concentration in on accessibility Czech Republic. In paper, we start by presenting continued decline retail areas seen be especially severe villages with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. By examining official statistics from Republic research pape...

Purpose The strategic entrepreneurship (SE) literature exists at the intersection of strategy and literatures has grown rapidly over past two decades. This study aims to document proliferation research papers identifies major thematic clusters topics other summary information for SE domain. Design/methodology/approach is a systematic bibliometric review 586 articles published period 2009–2019 i...

Each practical action in rural areas should be based on a comprehensive, new, and innovative theoretical paradigm. For nearly three decades, the global economic system has embraced entrepreneurship as “productive” strategy development many countries, including both underdeveloped developed countries. At present, we have large companies, which due to government interventions, are replaced with s...

This article employs a Foucauldian discourse analysis of UK social policy on work and retirement from the austerity measures 2010 to 2019, explore emergence older femininity as key site articulate justify neoliberal governmentality in old age, aftermath Great Recession. Feminist Cultural Studies' scholarship has remarked critiqued centrality contemporary cultural discourses female emancipation ...

Recent advances in technology have made truly open and accessible government significantly more realisable. One of the ways which governments are using this is implementation online portals that allow (i.e., public unrestricted) access to data use data. Such can be used by citizens professionals facilitate improved decision-making across a wide range areas, from car-parking promoting entreprene...

Against a backdrop of the growing crisis in higher education, economic fallout COVID-19 pandemic and longer-term precaritisation youth graduate labour market, last 2 years have witnessed an increased visibility promotion flexible, entrepreneurial often digitally mediated forms self-employment addressed at young women, including ‘side hustle’. With media declarations such as ‘the university side...

Despite the many years of reform since Civil Rights movement, racial justice in United States has remained elusive because endemic nature racism and anti-Blackness at all levels American society, including structures welfare state. Using a critical race theory approach, this article examines evolution structural social policies from Great Society 1960s to devolved entrepreneurialism neoliberali...