Mason, Colin M. and Carter, Sara and Tagg, Stephen (2011) Invisible businesses : the characteristics of home-based businesses in the United Kingdom. Regional Studies, 45 (5). pp. 625-639. ISSN 0034-3404
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Home-based businesses comprise a significant proportion of the small business sector. But because they are invisible, their economic significance is assumed to be minor. This paper challenges this view. The majority are full-time businesses. One in ten has achieved significant scale. They create jobs for more than just the owner(s). They are concentrated in computer-related, business, and professional service sectors. They also have a distinctive geography. Rural areas and non-metropolitan parts of Southern England have the highest proportion of home-based businesses. Urban-industrial regions have the lowest proportion. This suggests a need to reconsider the role of home-based businesses in local economic development.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 27637 |
| Keywords: | home working, home-based business, small business, rural economy, urban economy, local economic development, development, invisible businesses, Commerce |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Commerce |
| Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre For Entrepreneurship Strathclyde Business School > Marketing |
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| Depositing user: | Miss Carol Ann Balloch |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2010 09:57 |
| Last modified: | 18 Jan 2013 19:12 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/27637 |
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