This study analyzes business performance through efficiency score estimation in two sustainable tourism models: cultural and rural tourism. The uses microeconomic data (microdata) of Spanish firms with different characteristics terms size, region, location financial variables. Using multistage modeling (Data envelopment analysis, DEA, non-parametric frontier tests), the main results show that a...

Entrepreneurship development has contributed to economic growth, rural development, job creation, and business expansion, as well providing a source of income for impoverished villagers. India demonstrated that entrepreneurial activities contribute their countries progress. Similarly, the growth entrepreneurship in been on rise. Many researchers have studied progress across states. Since implem...

Rural enterprise hubs are physical infrastructures designed to help rural businesses access tangible and intangible benefits. They generally operate within two main business models: ‘Honey Pots’ (i.e. targeting business-to-customer tenants) ‘Hives’ business‐to‐business tenants). This paper focuses on the former type, Honey Pot hubs, which best suited tenants who sell their products/services dir...

Many states across the United States have significant rural populations, which typically face different sets of challenges than those closer to urban populations. This is particularly evident in types opportunities that small businesses areas. In recent years, various efforts - both at a national and local level been taken increase for businesses. However, not always produced results are envisi...

The Asian and Pacific region is home for over 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 70 percent of the region’s population lives in rural areas and primarily involved in agriculture. Integrating and empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship in green cooperatives has been recognized as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and enhancing sustainable rural...

This study looks at rural livelihoods in semi-arid and arid rural areas in post-2000 Zimbabwe. The decade-long socio-economic recession coupled with recurrent droughts presented a myriad of challenges to rural households in Zimbabwe. Taking Mudzi, a rural district in Zimbabwe, as a case study, the study explores the livelihood conditions and how households have managed to organize and cluster t...

Purpose – To rigorously examine success and failure in the use of small scale technologies for rural electrification. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured primary field interviews plus secondary sources. Findings – Business model differences and influence of institutions important are important for understanding success and failure in rural electrification and the contribution rural el...

BPO industry in India has witnessed huge growth over the last decade and it needs to sustain its leadership position and cost competitiveness. Rural BPO, a new trend in the BPO industry in India, can be a solution to sustain the cost competitiveness of India and also contribute to the growth of Tier II, Tier III cities and rural areas. This article tries to study the opportunities and challenge...

Many studies have found that mortality declines during recessions, but do such results remain consistent in both urban and rural settings? To help uncover explanations for such a pro-cyclical nature of mortality, the present study revisits this topic but allows for associations between unemployment and mortality to differ between urban and rural areas. Using a total of 66 863 observations acros...

Entrepreneurship Development Strategy in Shared Business (Case Study Rural Areas of Dasht-e Azadegan township)