The survival and performance of businesses depend in part on their resilience when confronted with crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a unique, large-scale survey of 2600 non-farm rural businesses conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore how rural businesses, shaped by...

Considers how small business owners perceive localbusiness relations and illuminates the nature and development of localmicro-business connections. After a review of economic and sociologicalaccounts of business cooperation, data from case studies of two rural markettowns in the north of England...