During
the fall semester of 2016, Lillian Osborne (MDP ‘17) and Felipe Barroso
(MDP ‘16) were part of a team of researchers from UMN Extension that
investigated the impacts of the retirement of the “baby boomer”
generation on rural communities in the Midwest, with a focus on small
business ownership trends. The project found that successful business
succession creates an opportunity for business expansion and that the
main strategies adopted by the studied communities to tackle the
retirement wave of “baby boomers” are to facilitate business succession
planning and to provide access to resources to small business owners.
This February, the article was published on the Community Development Society Journal and can be accessed at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15575330.2017.1287110?journalCode=rcod20
This February, the article was published on the Community Development Society Journal and can be accessed at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15575330.2017.1287110?journalCode=rcod20