<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents a survey approach to measuring the “transaction footprints” of rural small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Combined with a graphical presentation of results, this contributes to the evidence base on the roles of local and global linkages. Findings suggest that the food and drink industry of Scotland is relatively localised in its input and sales interaction pattern, although substantial variations, associated with product specialisms, remoteness/accessibility, input purchasing and marketing strategies, exist. Localised SMEs have weathered the recession slightly better, but more outward-looking in firms tend to have greater optimism about the future. Transaction footprint analysis should be viewed as component of an ongoing process of re-mapping the network infrastructure of the rural economy, alongside analysis of untraded interdependencies, and institutional networks in the realm of governance.</p></abstract>

This paper presents a survey approach to measuring the “transaction footprints” of rural small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Combined with a graphical presentation of results, this contributes to the evidence base on the roles of local and global linkages. Findings suggest that the food and drink industry of Scotland is relatively localised in its input and sales interaction pattern, although substantial variations, associated with product specialisms, remoteness/accessibility, input purchasing and marketing strategies, exist. Localised SMEs have weathered the recession slightly better, but more outward-looking in firms tend to have greater optimism about the future. Transaction footprint analysis should be viewed as component of an ongoing process of re-mapping the network infrastructure of the rural economy, alongside analysis of untraded interdependencies, and institutional networks in the realm of governance.

The Transaction Footprints of Scottish Food And Drink SMEs

Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, Scotland,

European Countryside

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This paper presents a survey approach to measuring the “transaction footprints” of rural small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Combined with a graphical...

The Transaction Footprints of Scottish Food And Drink SMEs

Article Category: Research Articles

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 227 - 249

Received: Mar 31, 2016

Accepted: Sep 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2016-0017

Keywords
Transaction footprints, food and drink, re-localisation, networked rural development

© 2016 Andrew Copus et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Transaction Footprints of Scottish Food And Drink SMEs

Article Category: Research Articles

Published Online: Oct 18, 2016

Page range: 227 - 249

Received: Mar 31, 2016

Accepted: Sep 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/euco-2016-0017

KeywordsTransaction footprints, food and drink, re-localisation, networked rural development

© 2016 Andrew Copus et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Transaction footprints, food and drink, re-localisation, networked rural development