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This special issue on Entrepreneurship in Community Development is edited by Norman Walzer, a long time friend of community development and the Journal of the Community Development Society. We thank Norm for soliciting the articles, overseeing their preliminary review, helping select peer reviewers for the usual double blind review process, and finally for working with the authors to assure that their revisions meet publication standards. We would also like to thank Western Illinois University for its generous financial support of this issue.
Entrepreneurship is a theme of great importance to community development professionals and practitioners, whether they are working in economic development or any other community function. The main lesson from this issue includes support for the conviction that the success of entrepreneurship depends greatly on the community in which it takes place: entrepreneurs thrive in supportive communities. This means that community developers focusing on all sectors--health, housing, or youth, for example--need to be aware of how their work contributes to and benefits from entrepreneurial supportive community cultures.
In addition, community developers in nonprofit organizations or government are finding that their work requires increasing amounts of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Editor's comments.(Editorial)