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Counselling Entrepreneurs As Resources In Regional Economic Development

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  • GEOFFREY G. MEREDITH

    (School of Management and Marketing, Southern Cross University, Australia)

  • DENNIS HOWARD

    (School of Management and Marketing, Southern Cross University, Australia)

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Regional economic or regional enterprise development has been subject to intense research by economists, planners, enterprise specialists and policy specialists for decades. The paper examines various models for regional economic or regional enterprise development and focuses on small towns and communities as an essential component of development. The paper reviews the role of entrepreneurs in enterprise strategies linked to towns and communities and the origins of entrepreneurs and strategies that might be adopted at the regional level to provide support for the entrepreneurial event. The results of a field study of over three hundred Australian regional development centres small enterprise clients, the strategies of those centres impact on entrepreneurs, reveal that the proposed objectives were not achieved and the strategies were in retrospect questionable. The paper concludes with recommended strategies for practitioners and policy makers dedicated to regional development and recognising the role of entrepreneurs in that process.

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  • Geoffrey G. Meredith & Dennis Howard, 1997. "Counselling Entrepreneurs As Resources In Regional Economic Development," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(04), pages 447-475.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:05:y:1997:i:04:n:s0218495897000259
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218495897000259
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