K<sc>ibler</sc> E., K<sc>autonen</sc> T. and F<sc>ink</sc> M. Regional social legitimacy of entrepreneurship: implications for entrepreneurial intention and start-up behaviour, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. A new understanding of the role of regional culture in the emergence of business start-up behaviour is developed. The focal...

1. Setting the stage -- 2. An action framework for rural municipalities -- 3. An agenda for cross-border know-how exchange -- 4. The evaluation of the transferability of the proposed agenda -- 5. Conclusion.

The article examines the role of housing cooperatives for social cohesion in the city by introducing linking social capital which grasps the vertical dimension of social capital. Housing cooperatives represent a crucial intermediate level between residents and urban housing policy, thus...

Research on the impact of the regional environment in the very early phase of the business start-up process is currently limited. This paper contributes to the literature by analysing the influence of regional factors on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions within the theory of planned...