Journal article
Family or Enterprise? What shapes the business structures of Australian farming?
Australian Geographer, Vol.44(2), pp.129-142
2013
Abstract
Australian farmers navigate their contemporary circumstances through the use of different business and legal arrangements that are shaped by the commercial realities of farming and the aspirations of farm-owning households. In posing the question 'Family or Enterprise?', this paper examines the extent to which various household and farm business indicators are associated with different forms of farm ownership, namely sole proprietorships, partnerships, trusts and companies. Results from a postal survey of farm enterprises in Victoria, Australia suggest that both household and enterprise factors contribute to the business structure used, although the strongest determinants appear to bethose factors that are less well understood in the rural geographical and sociological literature: household composition, farmer age and farm size. Greater scrutiny of the business instruments deployed by farmers to manage family and enterprise pressures should inform expectations of the fate of family farming in advanced financialised economies.
Details
- Title
- Family or Enterprise? What shapes the business structures of Australian farming?
- Authors
- Sally Weller (Author) - Monash UniversityErin F Smith (Author) - University of SydneyBill Pritchard (Author) - University of Sydney
- Publication details
- Australian Geographer, Vol.44(2), pp.129-142
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.1080/00049182.2013.789592
- ISSN
- 0004-9182; 0004-9182
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Australian Geographer, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00049182.2013.789592.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448804302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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