Alexandre has a keen interest in investigating rural entrepreneurship and wants to better understand the changing role of rural businesses, both in the agricultural and non-agricultural (such as manufacturing and services) sectors, in community development. Conceptually, he has worked essentially with the notion of proximity. His empirical work takes place in north Sweden (e.g. V\u00e4sterbotten) and, more recently, South Australia and seeks to investigate how economic actors located in remote rural settings grasp new business opportunities through the development of new relational arrangements by mobilizing different modes of organized proximity. Recent work has especially looked at how small-scale farmers mobilize such proximities with various agents, including consumers, in the establishment of short food supply chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[30],"yoast_head":"\n