Local Economy

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Volume 37, issue 8, 2022

Action on Poverty and Hardship in the English Potteries pp. 641-646

Katy Goldstraw and Sarah Page

Taking sides: The role of universities in supporting community driven approaches to addressing poverty pp. 647-654

Nicola Gratton

Women, homelessness and multiple disadvantage in Stoke-on-Trent: The need for safe places in the context of wider health and social inequalities pp. 655-675

Fiona McCormack and Sophia Fedorowicz

Co-producing ideas, leaders and learning – teaching participatory activism in Stoke-on-Trent pp. 676-691

Katy Goldstraw

COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent pp. 692-707

David Etherington, Martin Jones and Luke Telford

Asylum seeker poverty and bail reporting change activism pp. 708-726

Sarah Page

Planning for change, long term: The 100-year plan pp. 727-733

Anna Francis

A civic and sustainable 15-minute campus? Universities should embrace the 15-minute city concept to help create vibrant sustainable communities pp. 734-744

Paul Barratt and Ruth Swetnam

Volume 37, issue 7, 2022

Mapping entrepreneurship support organisations: An examination of the ‘cluttered landscape’ critique pp. 541-563

Michaela Hruskova, Colin Mason and Sarah Herzog

Legitimizing path development by interlinking institutional logics: The case of Israel’s desert tourism pp. 564-583

Maximilian Benner

What drives the creation of green jobs, products and technologies in cities and regions? Insights from recent research on green industrial transitions pp. 584-601

Francesca Froy, Samuel Heroy, Elvira Uyarra and Neave O’Clery

Community wealth building or local authority rhetoric? pp. 602-621

Morag E Redwood, Anne MJ Smith, Artur Steiner and Geoff Whittam

Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making pp. 622-638

Janice Morphet

Volume 37, issue 6, 2022

New regions in the periphery: Agency and politics in shaping the governance of regional development in the Scotland–England border region pp. 421-439

David Clelland

What roles do high-growth small- and medium-sized enterprises play in a slow-growing region? The job diversity and inclusive growth in Incheon, South Korea pp. 440-461

Namji Jung

Community perceptions on tourism development in South Africa: The case of developing a tourism route in the City of Mbombela Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa pp. 462-480

Makhupu Q Sekole, Mankolo Lethoko, Madimetja H Mautjana and Godswill Makombe

Going Green Post COVID-19: Employer Perspectives on Skills Needs pp. 481-506

Sarah Strachan, Alison Greig and Aled Jones

The impact of Chinese foreign direct investment on host country economic growth pp. 507-525

Andrew G Ross and Neil Fleming

Innovation Salons – Events for dialogical knowledge transfer between civil society and higher education institutions pp. 526-538

Suntje Schmidt and Julia Stadermann

Volume 37, issue 5, 2022

‘This job is not part of my dreams, what do I leave my children? Nothing’. Livelihoods of Durban car guards at ticketed pay to park sites pp. 331-347

John RW Foster, Mihalis Chasomeris and Derick Blaauw

Lessons from a rural ecosystem pp. 348-363

Sivert Hammer and Tore Frimanslund

Sustained circulation: A descriptive framework of long-lived Japanese community currencies pp. 364-383

Jeremy September and Shigeto Kobayashi

The regional macroeconomic impact of projected affordable housing developments: Facilitating the ‘levelling up’ Agenda? pp. 384-402

Stephen Boyle, Kevin Connolly, Peter G McGregor and Mairi Spowage

Industrial policies, strategy and the UK’s Levelling Up agenda pp. 403-418

Peter Sunley, Jack L Harris, Andy Pike, Richard Harris, Ron Martin and Emil Evenhuis

Volume 37, issue 4, 2022

Accelerator niches in an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem: New York city pp. 233-258

Joonho Oh, Paige Clayton and Maryann Feldman

What do we know about small and medium enterprises’ survival in a post-global economic crisis context? pp. 259-278

Izabella Steinerowska-Streb, Grzegorz Glod and Artur Steiner

The United Kingdom’s ‘going away to university’ migration and its changing impact on local populations in the twenty-first century pp. 279-296

Tony Champion

The Limits of Change Agency: Establishing a Peripheral University Campus in East Tyrol pp. 297-316

Jakob Eder and Stefanie Döringer

The role of community entrepreneurs in depleted communities: A case study of Father Greg MacLeod’s ‘action research’ in Cape Breton pp. 317-327

Colin Mason

Corrigendum to “Bottom-up strategies, platform worker power and local action: Learning from ridehailing drivers†pp. 328-328

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Volume 37, issue 3, 2022

The changing fortunes and future prospects of a traditional industrial cluster: Woollen textile production in the Scottish Borders pp. 125-141

Allen Scott

Towards a conceptual framework of enterprise support for pro-environmental small and medium-sized enterprises: A contextualised review of diverse knowledge domains pp. 142-168

Fred Paterson, Polina Baranova and Bruno Gallotta

Rich cities, poor countryside? Social structure of the poor and poverty risks in urban and rural places in an affluent country pp. 169-193

Oliver Hümbelin, Lukas Hobi and Robert Fluder

Innovation networking in aspirational subnational innovative regions: Exploring experiences from Frances Baard municipality, South Africa pp. 194-206

Peter T Jacobs, Olebogeng Molewa and Kgabo Hector Ramoroka

Implementation perspectives of solar energy irrigation policy in water deficient regions: A case of Rajasthan state in India pp. 207-218

Pragati Jain, Prerna Jain and Pratyush Jain

Mobilizing ‘communities of practice’ for local development and accleration of the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 219-229

Eunice Annan-Aggrey, Godwin Arku, Kilian Atuoye and Emmanuel Kyeremeh

Volume 37, issue 1-2, 2022

Editorial: Levelling up the United Kingdom? A useful mantra but too little substance or delivery? pp. 3-12

Joyce Liddle, John Shutt and Gareth Addidle

Will the Levelling Up White Paper (LUWP) drive reform of national innovation policy and practice? pp. 13-20

David Marlow

Levelling up – Is it the right cure? pp. 21-33

Simon Bridge

From EU Structural Funds to Levelling Up: Empty signifiers, ungrounded statism and English regional policy pp. 34-49

Paul Copeland and Patrick Diamond

‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? pp. 50-65

Ray Hudson

The role of the private sector in subnational governance: Learning lessons from England’s local enterprise partnerships pp. 66-83

Jack Newman and Nigel Gilbert

Understanding resilient places: Multi-level governance in times of crisis pp. 84-103

Kate Broadhurst and Nicholas Gray

Young people, youth work & the ‘levelling up’ policy agenda pp. 104-117

Jon Ord and Bernard Davies

Book Review: Local economy book review: Value (s) building a better world for all pp. 118-119

Joyce Liddle

Book Review pp. 120-121

John Shutt

Volume 36, issue 7-8, 2021

All hubs and no spokes? Exploring the potential of hubs to sustain rural and regional development pp. 543-550

Gary Bosworth and Koen Salemink

Rural service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development pp. 551-568

Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Ulla Ovaska and Aimee Morse

The rural social economy, community food hubs and the market pp. 569-588

Nigel R Curry

‘Honey pot’ rural enterprise hubs as micro-clusters: Exploring their role in creativity-led rural development pp. 589-605

Ian Merrell, Frances Rowe, Paul Cowie and Menelaos Gkartzios

How rural coworking hubs can facilitate well-being through the satisfaction of key psychological needs pp. 606-626

Ian Merrell, Anita Füzi, Emma Russell and Gary Bosworth

Rural arts entrepreneurs’ placemaking – how ‘entrepreneurial placemaking’ explains rural creative hub evolution during COVID-19 lockdown pp. 627-649

Inge Hill, Louise Manning and Richard Frost

Hubs, hopes and high stakes for a relatively disadvantaged low tech place pp. 650-668

Christina Rundel and Koen Salemink

Public support for collaborative workspaces: Dispersed help to a place-based phenomenon? pp. 669-682

Vasilis Avdikos and Antigoni Papageorgiou

A guide to developing a rural digital hub pp. 683-694

Liz Price, Jane Deville and Fiona Ashmore

Volume 36, issue 6, 2021

Digitalisation and the foundational economy: A digital opportunity or a digital divide for less-developed regions? pp. 451-467

Laura Reynolds, Dylan Henderson, Chen Xu and Laura Norris

Artisanal refining of crude oil in the Niger Delta: A challenge to clean-up and remediation in Ogoniland pp. 468-486

Paul A. Onuh, Tochukwu J. Omenma, Chinedu J. Onyishi, Celestine U. Udeogu, Nelson C. Nkalu and Victor O. Iwuoha

The geography of financial condition in the Mexico City metropolitan area pp. 487-504

Alejandra Trejo-Nieto

A place-based approach to population sustainability: Demographic and economic change at the local level in Fife, Scotland pp. 505-523

David McCollum, Hebe Nicholson and Paula Duffy

COVID-19: How community businesses in England struggled to respond to their communities’ needs pp. 524-540

Mandy Gardner, Don Webber, Glenn Parry and Peter Bradley

Volume 36, issue 5, 2021

Event spaces and the shaping of economic subjectivity: Inside the Social Enterprise World Forum pp. 347-355

Tom Baker, Ryan Jones, Michael Mann and Nick Lewis

Considering the role of negotiated developer contributions in financing ecological mitigation and protection programs in England: A cultural perspective pp. 356-373

Malachy Buck

The student urban leisure sector: Towards commercial studentification? pp. 374-390

Jakub Zasina

Economies and employment in growing and declining urban peripheries in South Africa pp. 391-410

Alison Todes and Jennifer Houghton

Could a new Scottish CO2 transport and storage industry deliver employment multiplier and other wider economy benefits to the UK economy? pp. 411-429

Karen Turner, Julia Race, Oluwafisayo Alabi, Christian Calvillo, Antonios Katris, Jamie Stewart and Kim Swales

An agent of change against all odds? The case of Ledger in Vierzon, France pp. 430-447

Arnault Morisson and Heike Mayer

Volume 36, issue 4, 2021

Formulation and application of a multi-variable location quotient index in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa pp. 273-286

Daniel F Meyer and Ferdinand Niyimbanira

Bridging the urban–rural gap in facilitating Local Economic Development: The case study of uMgungundlovu District Municipality in KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa pp. 287-307

Ayanda C Makhaye, Mogie Subban and Cecile N Gerwel Proches

“Will wait for the government pension hereâ€: Structural factors impacting on day labourers’ access to employment in East London, South Africa pp. 308-324

Mzukisi Xweso, Catherina Schenck and Derick Blaauw

Bottom-up strategies, platform worker power and local action: Learning from ridehailing drivers pp. 325-343

Jonathan Woodside, Tara Vinodrai and Markus Moos

Volume 36, issue 3, 2021

Inclusive innovation editorial: The promise of inclusive innovation pp. 181-186

Greg Schrock and Nichola Lowe

Causes of the gender divide within entrepreneurship ecosystems pp. 187-204

Yasuyuki Motoyama, Susan Clark Muntean, Karren Knowlton and Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Manufacturing space for inclusive innovation? A study of makerspaces in southern Ontario pp. 205-223

Tara Vinodrai, Brenton Nader and Christian Zavarella

Genesis at work: Advancing inclusive innovation through manufacturing extension pp. 224-241

Nichola Lowe, Greg Schrock, Ranita Jain and Maureen Conway

Inclusive innovation and the “ordinary†city: Incidental or integral? pp. 242-264

Allison Bramwell

Inclusive innovation closing essay: Problems beyond economic development pp. 265-270

Marc Doussard and Jennifer Clark

Volume 36, issue 2, 2021

Capacity in municipalities: Infrastructures, maintenance debts and ways of overcoming a run-to-failure mentality pp. 81-97

Jens Alm, Alexander Paulsson and Robert Jonsson

Globalisation and local economic development: Place-based and bottom-up public policies in Switzerland and Mexico pp. 98-114

Eduardo I Palavicini Corona

Local economic governance strategies in the UK’s post-industrial cities and the challenges of improving local work and employment conditions pp. 115-132

Edward Yates, Ian Clark and William Rossiter

The impacts of a reduction in British meat and dairy consumption on Northern Ireland’s agri-food sector pp. 133-148

Alastair Greig and Ziping Wu

Collaborative leadership and place-based development pp. 149-163

Kate Broadhurst, Jennifer Ferreira and Nigel Berkeley

Local governance and the crisis of water and sanitation provision in medium-sized urban centres: Evidence from three cities in Nigeria pp. 164-177

Kayode J Samuel, Samuel B Agbola and Olorunfemi A Olojede

Volume 36, issue 1, 2021

City region limits: Questioning city-centric growth narratives in medium-sized cities pp. 3-21

David Beel and Martin Jones

Decentralisation or deconcentration: The case of regional and local economic development in South Africa pp. 22-41

Isaac Khambule

Regional development and agency: Unfinished business pp. 42-55

Alistair Rainnie

Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: Technological transformation, digitalisation and the longer term—The automotive and ICT sectors in the UK and Bulgaria pp. 56-74

Chiara N Focacci and Vassil Kirov

Book Review: The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain pp. 75-78

Tony Jackson