Rural southwest Scotland relies to an atypically large extent on its small firms. This research adopts a qualitative approach to explore and map the relationships of 12 rural SMEs in the service sector. Although formal networks are underdeveloped in rural southwest Scotland, business owners...

In Scotland, the land question comprises issues associated with the legal context, ownership, use an d management of the resource. The con text within which the land question has been addressed has changed quite dramatically over the past decade, as a consequence of the Scottish Parliament an d...