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Record W4411868161 · doi:10.1080/15575330.2025.2525802

Reluctant entrepreneurs or embracing marketization: The governance of municipal entrepreneurialism for community development in rural Canada

2025· article· en· W4411868161 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueCommunity Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCommunity Development and Social Impact
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of NewfoundlandUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of GuelphUniversity of Northern British ColumbiaSimon Fraser University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsMarketizationCorporate governanceBusinessCommunity developmentEconomic growthPublic administrationPolitical scienceChinaEconomicsFinance

Abstract

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Rural communities in many OECD countries have experienced political and economic restructuring pressures from neoliberal public policies and New Public Management since the 1980s. To navigate these challenges, rural local governments in Canada are developing municipal enterprises to expand revenues and address service and infrastructure pressures. This paper reports on research from four Canadian provinces investigating the challenge of municipal entrepreneurialism for the implementation and governance of community development in rural Canada. Findings reveal strains on local capacity and the potential loss of control over municipal enterprises due to tensions between the municipality’s strategic planning and community development goals versus the strategic goals pursued by the board of directors representing the municipal enterprise. Rural communities also face fiscal and staff capacity limitations that hinder the development and operation of municipal enterprises. Such capacity pressures are exacerbated by the absence of a clear regulatory environment to guide the operations of municipal enterprises.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.474
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it