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Rural Women And Entrepreneurship: A Case Study In Heraklion Crete Prefecture, Greece

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  • AIKATERINI LASSITHIOTAKI

    (Municipality of Heraklion John Psychari 22, Crete, Greece)

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This article investigates the entrepreneurial beliefs/attitudes, ambitions, expectations, goals and visions of rural women who choose to cooperate and found Women's Rural cooperatives in the Prefecture of Heraklion on the island of Crete. The results of a qualitative study involving a sample of eight chairwomen of rural women's established Traditional Food Production cooperatives indicated that the traditional domestic roles (housewife, mother), the low level of education, the lack of professional skills, enterprise experience and mostly the unwillingness of rural women to undertake enterprise risk, have turned them toward an enterprise model that lacks modern business methods in the use of quality control production systems, in the production of Protected Geographical Identification Goods and/or Certified Local Traditional Food and/or Organic Products, in the use of new organizing and managing technologies, in advertising and promoting products and in administrative renewal.

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  • Aikaterini Lassithiotaki, 2011. "Rural Women And Entrepreneurship: A Case Study In Heraklion Crete Prefecture, Greece," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(02), pages 269-284.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jdexxx:v:16:y:2011:i:02:n:s1084946711001835
    DOI: 10.1142/S1084946711001835
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    1. Nikolaos Apostolopoulos & Panagiotis Liargovas & Stavros Stavroyiannis & Ilias Makris & Sotiris Apostolopoulos & Dimitrios Petropoulos & Eleni Anastasopoulou, 2020. "Sustaining Rural Areas, Rural Tourism Enterprises and EU Development Policies: A Multi-Layer Conceptualisation of the Obstacles in Greece," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-19, September.
    2. Nor Asiah Omar & Che Aniza Che Wel, 2014. "Entrepreneurial Training of Low-Income Women Micro Enterprises in the Service Sector in Malaysia: Understanding the Problems and Challenges," Journal of Social and Development Sciences, AMH International, vol. 5(4), pages 245-257.
    3. Achilleas Kontogeorgos & Panagiota Sergaki & Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, 2017. "An Assessment Of New Farmers’ Perceptions About Agricultural Cooperatives," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(01), pages 1-13, March.
    4. Zafeirios Thomakis & Irene Daskalopoulou, 2022. "Entrepreneurial Views and Rural Entrepreneurial Potential: Evidence from Greece," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(2), pages 1611-1634, June.
    5. Lúcia Pato, 2015. "Rural entrepreneurship and Innovation: some successful women?s initiatives," ERSA conference papers ersa15p1367, European Regional Science Association.
    6. Achilleas KONTOGEORGOS & Fotios CHATZITHEODORIDIS & Efstratios LOIZOU, 2016. "Adaptation strategies for the Greek agricultural cooperatives during the economic crisis," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 62(1), pages 26-34.

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