Evolving entrepreneurship among logging contractors

Abstract

We aim at analysing and describing logging contractors’ emerging strategies to develop their businesses. Departing form established theory of entrepreneurship, business strategy, and organisations we present a model of strategies for business development with the entrepreneurial activity in the center. Data collected through interviews, seminar discussions, and case studies are analysed within the framework of the presented model. We identify driving forces behind the contractors’ development efforts and we distinguish one reactive and one proactive main development strategy. The contractors develop their business due to firm internal resources and the external conditions of the local context they are acting upon and within. Our research show how entrepreneurship evolves among contractors in the mature industry of logging

Published in

Title: RENT XIX proceedings: Book of abstracts and CD-rom papers
Publisher: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane

Conference

RENT XIX - Research in entrepreneurship and small business Entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and local development

SLU Authors

• Bohlin, Folke

  • Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hultåker, Oscar

  • Department of Forest Products, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics and Business
Social Sciences
Forest Science

Publication identifier

• ISBN: 88-495-1183-3

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/7030