The relevance of linking favourable business environments with embeddedness SMEs in rural areas of the Goriška region, Slovenia

Contemporary Slovene rural areas as multifunctional localities with heterogeneous and mosaic structures and, exposed to enormous restructuring, are trapped between traditional processes and structures on one side and modern development processes on the other. Goriška (predominately a rural area) is part of a strongly integrated cross-border region with a very diverse geographical structure, huge historical, cultural and natural heritage and a significant share of LFAs with increasing levels of inter-regional disparities. This paper focuses on networking of SMEs in these Slovene rural areas. The results confirm the complex nature of the relationships between favourable business environments (built-up and supportive business milieu) and processes of embeddedness and international integration.Sodobno slovensko podeželje kot večfunkcijski prostor z izjemno heterogeno in mozaično strukturo doživlja velike spremembe, saj je ujeto med kolesje tradicionalnih procesov in struktur ter sodobnih razvojnih procesov. Goriška statistična regija (Žpretežno podeželsko območjeŽ) ima kot del močno povezanega čezmejnega območja zelo raznoliko geografsko strukturo, bogato zgodovinsko, naravno in kulturno dediščino, omejene, a specifične pogoje za kmetovanje in se sooča s pomembnimi medregionalnimi razlikami. Članek se osredotoča na vzpostavitev mrežnih povezav majhnih in srednjevelikih podjetij na podeželju. Rezultati potrjujejo zapleten sistem odnosov med podjetniškim okoljem (grajenim in spodbudnim) in vpetostjo v lokalno okolje na eni in vključenostjo v mednarodne tokove na drugi strani