Rural shrinking is an ongoing phenomenon in many parts of Europe. Against this backdrop neo-endogenous rural development has been gaining support as a conceptual and policy approach which stress the combination of local and external actors, resources and forces for enhancing an integrated development of rural areas. Within this governance framework rural social enterprises have been stressed as potential key actors contributing to rural development. This paper explores, through 36 semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders of two Irish community-based rural social enterprises, the role of these organizations in contributing to a neo-endogenous development. Our findings show how their mobilization of the social attachment of their members, their collective character and their delivery of tangible results have been key to develop collaborative dynamics with stakeholders from different sectors and situated at various spatial scales. Moreover, these organizations have accommodated global-exogenous forces buffering their effects through locally-focused solutions which address the needs of their rural communities, despite their incapacity to address the causes of these global-exogenous trends. We conclude that rural community-based social enterprises can play a relevant role in contributing to neo-endogenous development, however, institutional frameworks that address the diversity of rural areas and that enhance balanced collaborations among different rural development stakeholders are a precondition to unlock their potential.

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以社区为基础的社会企业作为新内生农村发展的参与者：多方利益相关者方法☆

农村萎缩是欧洲许多地区的持续现象。在此背景下，新农村发展作为一种概念和政策方法得到了支持，它强调地方和外部行为者、资源和力量的结合，以促进农村地区的综合发展。在这个治理框架内，农村社会企业被强调为促进农村发展的潜在关键行为者。本文通过对爱尔兰两家以社区为基础的农村社会企业的不同利益相关者的 36 次半结构化访谈，探讨了这些组织在促进新内生发展方面的作用。我们的研究结果表明他们如何动员其成员的社会依恋，他们的集体特征和他们交付的切实成果是与来自不同部门和位于不同空间尺度的利益攸关方发展合作动力的关键。此外，尽管这些组织无力解决这些全球外生趋势的根源，但它们已经适应了全球外生力量，通过解决其农村社区需求的以本地为中心的解决方案来缓冲其影响。我们的结论是，以农村社区为基础的社会企业可以在促进新内生发展方面发挥相关作用，然而，解决农村地区多样性和加强不同农村发展利益相关者之间平衡合作的制度框架是释放其潜力的先决条件.