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Gerard McElwee is affiliated with York St John University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences. The scientist's work is particularly concentrated in subfields such as Management of Technology and Innovation, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Business and International Management.

The main topics covered in McElwee's research include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Cooperative Studies and Economics, Rural Development and Sustainability, Identification and Quantification in Food, and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses.

Recent publications by Gerard McElwee feature diverse themes:

  • "Rural women entrepreneurs in Oman: problems and opportunities," 2021, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
  • "Discrete event simulation in livestock management," 2020, Journal of Rural Studies
  • "The "horse-meat" scandal: illegal activity in the food supply chain," 2021, Supply Chain Management An International Journal
  • "Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage," 2022, Work Employment and Society
  • "Constrained entrepreneurship in UK agriculture: A Weberian analysis," 2022, Journal of Rural Studies

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Gittins
  • Robert Smith
  • Deema Refai
  • Suhail M. Ghouse
  • Omar Durrah

Gerard McElwee's research has been regularly published in several venues with a focus on rural and entrepreneurial studies. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat
  • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
  • Supply Chain Management An International Journal

Best Publications

  • FARMERS AS ENTREPRENEURS: DEVELOPING COMPETITIVE SKILLS

    Gerard Mcelwee

  • Women entrepreneurs in Oman: some barriers to success

    Gerard McElwee;Rahma Al‐Riyami

  • A taxonomy of entrepreneurial farmers

    Gerard McElwee

  • Diversification and the Entrepreneurial Motivations of Farmers in Norway

    Jostein Vik;Gerard McElwee

  • Developing the entrepreneurial skills of farmers: some myths explored

    Jarkko Pyysiainen;Alistair R. Anderson;Gerard McElwee;Kari Mikko Vesala

  • Situating community enterprise: a theoretical exploration

    Peter Somerville;Gerard McElwee

  • The split entrepreneurial identity of the farmer

    Kari Mikko Vesala;Juuso Peura;Gerard McElwee

  • Exploring the strategic skills of farmers across a typology of farm diversification approaches

    G McElwee;G Bosworth

  • The dark side of the rural idyll: Stories of illegal/illicit economic activity in the UK countryside

    Peter Somerville;Robert Smith;Gerard McElwee

  • Entrepreneurship: Perspectives and Cases

    Gary Bosworth;Leo Paul Dana;Gerard McElwee

  • Upward Appraisal in Practice: An Illustrative Example Using the Qualed Model

    Gerard McElwee;Tom Redman

  • Barriers to rural women entrepreneurs in Oman

    Suhail Ghouse;Gerard McElwee;Julia Meaton;Omar Durrah

  • Barriers to the development and progress of entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan

    Nabeel Muhammad;Gerard McElwee;Leo-Paul Dana

  • Confronting Social Constructions of Rural Criminality: A Case Story on ‘Illegal Pluriactivity’ in the Farming Community

    Robert Smith;Gerard McElwee

  • Rural women entrepreneurs in Oman: problems and opportunities

    Suhail M. Ghouse;Omar Durrah;Gerard McElwee

  • Farm diversification strategies in response to rural policy: a case from rural Italy

    Marcello De Rosa;Gerard McElwee;Robert Smith

  • Entrepreneurial success of cottage-based women entrepreneurs in Oman

    Suhail M. Ghouse;Gerard McElwee;Omar Durrah

  • A cross‐national comparison of knowledge management practices

    George Tovstiga;Len Korot;Leo Paul Dana;Gerard McElwee

  • The enterprising farmer: a review of entrepreneurship in agriculture

    G McElwee

  • Classifying the strategic capability of farmers: a segmentation framework

    Gerard McElwee;Robert Smith

  • The European farm entrepreneur: a comparative perspective

    Pieter De Wolf;Gerard McElwee;Herman Schoorlemmer

  • Total quality management in higher education: how to approach human resource management

    George Holmes;Gerard McElwee

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo Paul Dana
Leo Paul Dana VIZJA University
Alistair R. Anderson
Alistair R. Anderson Lancaster University
Colette Henry
Colette Henry Dundalk Institute of Technology
Ed Snape
Ed Snape Hong Kong Baptist University
David Smith
David Smith University of Glasgow

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