The Transaction Footprints of Scottish Food And Drink SMEs

Copus Andrew (), Hopkins Jonathan () and Creaney Rachel ()
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Copus Andrew: Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Hopkins Jonathan: Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Creaney Rachel: Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

European Countryside, 2016, vol. 8, issue 3, 227-249

Abstract: This paper presents a survey approach to measuring the “transaction footprints” of rural small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Combined with a graphical presentation of results, this contributes to the evidence base on the roles of local and global linkages. Findings suggest that the food and drink industry of Scotland is relatively localised in its input and sales interaction pattern, although substantial variations, associated with product specialisms, remoteness/accessibility, input purchasing and marketing strategies, exist. Localised SMEs have weathered the recession slightly better, but more outward-looking in firms tend to have greater optimism about the future. Transaction footprint analysis should be viewed as component of an ongoing process of re-mapping the network infrastructure of the rural economy, alongside analysis of untraded interdependencies, and institutional networks in the realm of governance.

Keywords: Transaction footprints; food and drink; re-localisation; networked rural development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/euco-2016-0017

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