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  1. Documenting the ‘Rural Wraith’ Phenomenon

    Article • International Journal of Rural Criminology, September 2024, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Professor Robert Smith

  2. Illegal rural enterprise – developing a framework to help identify and investigate shadow infrastructures and illicit criminal networks

    Article • Policing An International Journal, February 2024, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  3. Policing and Investigating Criminal Activities by Gangs Using E-Bikes, E-Scooters and E-Motorcycles in the UK

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  4. Evaluating Policing Priorities in the United Kingdom: A Narrative Overview Focusing on Counter-Terrorism, Crime Control and Community Policing Strategies

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  5. The influence of cultural constraints on entrepreneurial motivations: Exploring the experiences of Muslim women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  6. Acquisitive crime, criminal predation and family business.

    Article • Journal of Family Business Management, September 2023, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  7. Developing ‘fresh perspectives’ on ‘entrepreneurial intuition’

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  8. Using Script and Textual Analysis and Close Readings of Media Reports to Analyse ‘So-Called Food-Fraud Scandals’

    Article • January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  9. The rise of the posh-preneurs: a teaching intervention on social class and entrepreneurship

    Article • International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, January 2023, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Robert Smith

  10. Rogue Farmers

    Article • November 2022, JSTOR

    Professor Robert Smith

  11. Organized Crime

    Article • November 2022, JSTOR

    Professor Robert Smith

  12. Organized Crime

    Article • November 2022, Policy Press

    Professor Robert Smith

  13. Rogue Farmers

    Article • November 2022, Policy Press

    Professor Robert Smith

  14. A personal reflection on repositioning the masculinity entrepreneurship debate in the literature and in the entrepreneurship research community

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, September 2022, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  15. Editorial: Introducing the ‘Festschrift’ in honour of the founding editor – Professor Gerard McElwee

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Laura Galloway, Professor Robert Smith

  16. Obituary: Professor Lorraine Warren

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  17. Shaking up and unleashing the power of alternative, gendered stereotypes

    Article • Entreprendre & Innover, January 2022, CAIRN

    Professor Robert Smith

  18. The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  19. Enterprise Culture in Art: Artist-Entrepreneur Graham McKean

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  20. Entrepreneurial and SME Activity in Libya: Reviewing Contextual Obstacles and Challenges Leading to Its Fractured Enterprise Culture

    Article • December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  21. The ‘Jack-the-Lass’ stereotype.

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  22. Exploring the farming and waste disposal nexus in the UK: Towards a typology of 'Environmental Criminals'

    Article • International Journal of Rural Criminology, September 2021, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Professor Robert Smith

  23. Fashioning an elite entrepreneurial identity via the endorsement of gendered, designer dress codes and artefacts of success

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  24. Obituary – Professor Alistair R Anderson

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  25. Entrepreneurialism in Policing and Criminal Contexts

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  26. Developing Momentum in Entrepreneurial Policing

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  27. Policing Culture and Anti-entrepreneurialism

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  28. Models for Implementing Entrepreneurial Policing

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  29. Implementing Entrepreneurial Policing in Complex Scenarios

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  30. Index

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  31. References

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  32. Exploring the Entrepreneurship–Leadership Nexus

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  33. Understanding Crimino-entrepreneurial Ecosystems

    Article • March 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  34. Illuminating the ‘Fat Cat Metaphor’, as a storied, signifier of ‘Capitalist Greed’ and ‘Corporate Corruption’.

    Article • Academia Letters, March 2021, Academia.edu

    Professor Robert Smith

  35. What jokes about entrepreneurs tell us about how humour may shape and de-legitimise public perceptions of entrepreneurial identity

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, February 2021, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  36. Charlie Gladstone, rentier or entrepreneur? A case study of contemporary ‘Aristocratic Enterprise’

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  37. ‘Gizza a Job, I Can Do That’: What the Literature Tells Us About How the Inability to Secure Employment Can Lead to Ex-Offenders Starting a Business

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  38. Reviewing Representations of the Ubiquitous “Entrepreneurs Wife”

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  39. Documenting the Role of UK Agricultural Colleges in Propagating the Farming-Dyslexia-Entrepreneurship Nexus

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert Smith

  40. Ecopreneurial Education and Support: Developing the Innovators of Today and Tomorrow

    Article • Sustainability, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Robert Smith

  41. Heroines of enterprise: Post-recession media representations of women and entrepreneurship in a UK newspaper 2008–2016

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  42. Operating at the margins of illegal entrepreneurial markets: situating rogue shopkeepers at the SME and criminal interface

    Article • January 2020, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Robert Smith

  43. Beyond the dolls house?

    Article • Qualitative Market Research An International Journal, November 2019, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  44. The evolution of “entrepreneurial policing”: a review of the literature

    Article • Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, October 2019, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  45. The ‘Fortress Farm’: articulating a new approach to redesigning ‘Defensible Space’ in a rural context

    Article • Crime Prevention and Community Safety, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

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

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor GERARD McELWEE, Professor Robert Smith

  47. Advancing understanding of pinch-points and crime prevention in the food supply chain

    Article • Crime Prevention and Community Safety, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  48. Providing Authentic(ated) Food: A Discussion of the Use of Multi-Qualitative Methods

    Article • January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  49. ‘Crimino-Entrepreneurial Behaviour’: Developing a Theoretically Based Behavioural Matrix to Identify and Classify

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  50. The rise of the underdogs: situating and storying ‘entrepreneurial leadership’ in the BrewDog business story

    Article • January 2018, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Robert Smith

  51. An Appreciation of the Stakeholder Impact in an Enterprise Education Experiential Learning Event: ‘The Enterprise Challenge’, a Case Story from Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  52. Conceptualising animation in rural communities: the Village SOS case

    Article • Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor GERARD McELWEE, Professor Robert Smith

  53. The ‘Dowager’ and her role in the governance and leadership of the entrepreneurial family business

    Article • July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert Smith

  54. Examining the characteristics, philosophies, operating practices and growth strategies of village entrepreneurs

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, June 2017, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  55. Reading liminal and temporal dimensionality in the Baxter family ‘public-narrative’

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  56. Documenting entrepreneurial opportunism in action

    Article • British Food Journal, January 2017, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  57. Scotland’s Centres for Entrepreneurship (UK)

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Robert Smith

  58. What influences ethnic entrepreneurs’ decision to start-up

    Article • Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, November 2016, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  59. Supporting knowledge exchange in rural business--A case story from Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  60. Assessing the impact of 'farming with dyslexia on local rural economies

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  61. Criminal farmers and organised rural crime groups

    Article • April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert Smith

  62. Of bad-seed, black-sheep and prodigal-sons

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, March 2016, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  63. From bush to butchery: cattle rustling as an entrepreneurial process in Kenya

    Article • Society and Business Review, February 2016, Emerald

    Professor GERARD McELWEE, Professor Robert Smith, Mr Emmanuel K Bunei

  64. Developing an organizational typology of criminals in the meat supply chain

    Article • Food Policy, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Louise Manning, Professor Robert Smith

  65. Con‘text’ualizing images of enterprise: an examination of ‘visual metaphors’ used to represent entrepreneurship in textbooks

    Article • October 2015, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Robert Smith

  66. Entrepreneurship and poetry: analyzing an aesthetic dimension

    Article • Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, August 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  67. The “Fairness Paradox” and “Small-Firm Growth Resistance Strategies”

    Article • World Journal of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development, July 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

  68. Telling business stories as fellowship-tales

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, June 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith

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

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  70. Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  71. Towards a Nuanced Typology of Illegal Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical and Conceptual Overview

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  72. Conversations with a ‘Small-Town’ Criminal Entrepreneur: A Case Study

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  73. Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  74. Stolen to Order! Tractor Theft as an Emerging International Criminal Enterprise

    Article • May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  75. Developing qualitative research streams relating to illegal rural enterprise

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, May 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  76. Providing Authentic(ated) Food

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith, Dr Louise Manning

  77. Documenting the UK “Black Fish Scandal” as a case study of criminal entrepreneurship

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, April 2015, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Robert Smith

  78. Authoring second-generation entrepreneur and family business stories

    Article • Journal of Family Business Management, October 2014, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  79. Informal, illegal and criminal entrepreneurship

    Article • September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Robert Smith

  80. Assessing the contribution of the ‘theory of matriarchy’ to the entrepreneurship and family business literatures

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, September 2014, Emerald

    Professor Robert Smith, Robert Smith

  81. A Bourdieuan Analysis of Qualitative Authorship in Entrepreneurship Scholarship

    Article • August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  82. Towards an Organizational Folklore of Policing: The Storied Nature of Policing and the Police Use of Storytelling

    Article • Folklore, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Smith, Professor Sarah Pedersen, Professor Robert Smith, Professor Simon Burnett

  83. Prohibition and the American Dream: an analysis of the entrepreneurial life and times of Al Capone

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, January 2014, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  84. The Long Goodbye: A Note on the Closure of Rural Police-Stations and the Decline of Rural Policing in Britain

    Article • Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice, November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  85. Rescripting criminal identity

    Article • Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy, October 2013, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  86. Seeing the Light

    Article • Family Business Review, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  87. Documenting Essex‐Boy as a local gendered regime

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, June 2013, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  88. Qualitative entrepreneurship authorship: antecedents, processes and consequences

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, June 2013, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  89. The embeddedness of illegal entrepreneurship in a closed ethnic community

    Article • International Journal of Business and Globalisation, January 2013, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  90. Book review: Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered Approaches, Unique Perspectives, and Neglected Topics

    Article • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  91. No Choices, No Chances: How Contemporary Enterprise Culture is Failing Britain's Underclasses

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2012, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  92. Theorising Illegal Rural Enterprise: Is everyone at it?

    Article • International Journal of Rural Criminology, December 2011, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Professor Robert Smith

  93. Petter Gottschalk – entrepreneurship and organised crime: entrepreneurs in illegal business, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009, pp 208

    Article • Trends in Organized Crime, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  94. Criminal entrepreneurship, white‐collar criminality, and neutralization theory

    Article • Journal of Enterprising Communities People and Places in the Global Economy, October 2011, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  95. Book Review: Knowledge Management in Policing: Enforcing Law on Criminal Business Enterprises, Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime: Entrepreneurs in Illegal Business

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  96. Book Review: Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders: How Your Genes Affect Your Work Life

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  97. Book Review: Quantitative Narrative Analysis

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  98. Observing community-based entrepreneurship and social networking at play in an urban village setting

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, January 2011, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  99. The role of storyboards and scrapbooks in propagating entrepreneurial value in family business settings

    Article • World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development, January 2011, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  100. Policing the Changing Landscape of Rural Crime: A Case Study from Scotland

    Article • International Journal of Police Science & Management, September 2010, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  101. BrewDog: Business Growth for Punks!

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  102. Masculinity, doxa and the institutionalisation of entrepreneurial identity in the novel Cityboy

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, March 2010, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  103. The Diva storyline: an alternative social construction of female entrepreneurship

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, June 2009, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  104. Religion, the Scottish Work Ethic and the Spirit of Enterprise

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  105. Extracting Value from Their Environment: Some Observations on Pimping and Prostitution as Entrepreneurship

    Article • Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  106. A call for the integration of 'Biographical Intelligence' into the National Intelligence Model

    Article • Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  107. Entrepreneurship, police leadership, and the investigation of crime in changing times

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, October 2008, Wiley

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  108. Zzzz.....Some reflections on the dynamics of village entrepreneurship

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, January 2008, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  109. Crisis plan? What crisis plan! How microentrepreneurs manage in a crisis

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, January 2008, Inderscience Publishers

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  110. The moral space in entrepreneurship: an exploration of ethical imperatives and the moral legitimacy of being enterprising

    Article • Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor Alistair Anderson, Professor Robert Smith

  111. Introduction

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  112. Book Review: A Literary Perspective on Entrepreneurship, Consolidating Knowledge on Academic Entrepreneurship

    Article • The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Robert Smith

  113. Narrating the decline of subsistence entrepreneurship in a Scottish fishing community

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, January 2006, Emerald

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith

  114. The devil is in the e-tale: forms and structures in the entrepreneurial narratives

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor Alistair Anderson, Professor Robert Smith

  115. Researching rural enterprise

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  116. Illegal rural enterprise

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Robert Smith, Professor Robert Smith, Professor GERARD McELWEE

  117. Recognizing Meaning: Semiotics in Entrepreneurial Research

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor Alistair Anderson, Professor Robert Smith

  118. Daring to be Different: A Dialogue on the Problems of Getting Qualitative Research Published

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor Alistair Anderson, Professor Robert Smith