Treating farms as firms? The evolution of farm business support from productionist to entrepreneurial models

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-54

  Phillipson, Jeremy ^a   Gorton, Matthew ^a   Raley, Marian ^a   Moxey, Andrew ^a  

^a Centre for Rural Economy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BUSINESS SERVICE; ENTREPRENEUR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342265979     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0238     Document Type: Article

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