Beyond the concept of 'getting big or getting out': entrepreneurship strategies to survive as a farm family

Bruno Hildenbrand and Charles B. Hennon

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2008, vol. 6, issue 3, 479-495

Abstract: Why do families value and maintain a family-farming ideology that goes against prevalent enlargement or exit trends and is subject to pressure from modernisation and burdened with risk? Two answers are suggested: the farm represents a lifestyle having advantages with regard to independence and the combination of working and living; and family tradition opposes giving up a farm. This paper inquires about entrepreneurial aptitude and action strategies of one farmer and his family. A case study demonstrates how pluriactivity and diversification strategies can advance the farm in the face of adversity, and that entrepreneurial strategies and the development of a rural business can be pursued while still retaining the identity of farmer.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; family farms; pluriactivity; qualitative methods; rural business; self-identity; rural entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial aptitudes; action strategies; diversification. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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