Local Economy

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Volume 35, issue 8, 2020

A vision of the farming sector’s future: What is in there for farmers in the time of the Second Machine Age? pp. 717-722

Marian Rizov

Agency, new technological path creation and long waves of local economic growth in Oxfordshire pp. 723-746

James Simmie

The emergence and conceptualisation of community stadia in the UK pp. 747-767

Alexander John McTier

Local development through the foundational economy? Priority-setting in Danish municipalities pp. 768-786

Birgitte Nygaard and Teis Hansen

Evaluating New York raw fiber-to-retail pp. 787-807

Helen X Trejo and Tasha L Lewis

Ecosocioeconomies and local development: Experiences in an urban farmers market in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 808-830

Mario Procopiuck, Roberta Maria de Moura Sousa, Carlos Alberto Cioce Sampaio and Ana Paula Vaz Procopiuck

Scaling up and scaling down supply chains in volatile resource-based economies pp. 831-851

Laura Ryser, Sean Markey and Greg Halseth

Volume 35, issue 7, 2020

The need for a Net Zero Principles Framework to support public policy at local, regional and national levels pp. 627-634

Karen Turner, Antonios Katris and Julia Race

Deportations and development: Responding to El Salvador’s new migration crisis pp. 635-654

Nik Theodore

Shocks, uncertainty and regional resilience: The case of Brexit and Scottish SMEs pp. 655-675

Ross Brown, Ronald V Kalafsky, Suzanne Mawson and Lori Davies

Immigrant entrepreneurs in rural England – An examination of the socio- cultural barriers facing migrant small businesses in Lincolnshire pp. 676-694

Dieu Hack-Polay, Justice Tenna Ogbaburu, Mahfuzur Rahman and Ali B Mahmoud

The directors of urban transformation: The case of Oslo pp. 695-713

Bengt Andersen, Hannah Eline Ander and Joar Skrede

Volume 35, issue 6, 2020

Viewpoint: Defeating the water crisis: Community matters! pp. 539-544

Pragati Jain and Prerna Jain

Capital ownership, innovation and regional development policy in the economic periphery: An energy industry case pp. 545-565

Calvin Jones and Max Munday

Core Cities’ strong growth in the 2010s: Were they ‘leaving behind’ the rest of their regions? pp. 566-585

Alan Townsend and Tony Champion

Unequal futures of rural mobility: Challenges for a “Smart Countryside†pp. 586-608

Gary Bosworth, Liz Price, Martin Collison and Charles Fox

Implementation dynamics of local economic development: Comparative empirical experiences from Ghana’s local governance system pp. 609-624

Akpeko Agbevade

Volume 35, issue 5, 2020

Ruta N, an island of innovation in Medellín’s downtown pp. 419-439

Lehyton Arenas, Miguel Atienza and José Francisco Vergara Perucich

Legitimacy of uncertain policy work: Exploring values in local economic development projects pp. 440-459

Albin Olausson

Keeping profits at home: A study of firm ownership and the geographical concentration of capital gains in the United States pp. 460-481

Mark S Mygrant

A manifesto for researching entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 482-495

Ben Spigel, Fumi Kitagawa and Colin Mason

Integrating Industry 4.0 plans into regional innovation strategies pp. 496-510

Dominique Lepore and Francesca Spigarelli

Optimising management information systems for Local Economic Development practice in KwaZulu-Natal pp. 511-522

Priscilla X Majola

The value chain and activities of polyethylene terephthalate plastics in the South African waste economy pp. 523-535

Marlin Hoffman and Catherina Schenck

Volume 35, issue 4, 2020

Special Edition on place-based industrial strategies pp. 271-276

Francesca Froy and Andrew Jones

Place-based vs. place blind? – Where do England’s new local industrial strategies fit in the ‘levelling up’ agenda? pp. 277-296

Alexander Nurse and Olivier Sykes

Comparing the development of Local Industrial Strategies across the Northern Powerhouse: Key emerging issues pp. 297-315

John Shutt and Joyce Liddle

(How) does productivity matter in the foundational economy? pp. 316-336

Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams

Who will win the electric vehicle race? The role of place-based assets and policy pp. 337-362

Clara Turner, Marco R Di Tommaso, Chiara Pollio and Karen Chapple

Configuration of enterprise support towards the clean growth challenge: A place-based perspective pp. 363-383

Polina Baranova, Fred Paterson and Bruno Gallotta

Assessing the role of universities in a place-based Industrial Strategy: Evidence from the UK pp. 384-402

Andrew Johnston and Peter Wells

The Covid-19 crisis and manufacturing: How should national and local industrial strategies respond? pp. 403-415

Harris Jl, P Sunley, E Evenhuis, Ronald Martin, A Pike and R Harris

Volume 35, issue 3, 2020

Grassroots democracy and development: Learning from the Philippines pp. 179-185

Ivan Turok and Andreas Scheba

Understanding the impact and value of temporary public art sculpture trails pp. 186-208

John Thompson and John Day

Industrial dynamics in the context of a region’s international competitiveness pp. 209-229

Celeste Varum, Carmen Guimarães, José Martinho Oliveira and Ana Martins

Internationalisation and localisation: Foreign venture capital investments in the United Kingdom pp. 230-256

Richard T Harrison, Babangida Yohanna and Yannis Pierrakis

Taking responsibility for entrepreneurship development in South Africa: The role of local municipalities pp. 257-268

Thanyani S Madzivhandila and Mazanai Musara

Volume 35, issue 2, 2020

Urban regeneration as a perpetual planning process: Understanding the role of stakeholders in property-led regeneration projects in Greek cities pp. 83-104

Athena Yiannakou

Convertible local currency and trust: ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’ – A field experiment in the French Basque Country pp. 105-120

Hayyan Alia and Eli Spiegelman

Rural social enterprises in Europe: A systematic literature review pp. 121-142

Mara Willemijn van Twuijver, Lucas Olmedo, Mary O’Shaughnessy and Thia Hennessy

Iceland’s bourgeoning cruise industry: An economic opportunity or a local threat? pp. 143-154

Jon Fridriksson, Nicholas Wise and Peter Scott

Beyond formal policies: Informal functions of mayor’s offices to promote entrepreneurship pp. 155-164

Yasuyuki Motoyama

Putting employers to work in economic development in the Atlantic provinces of Canada pp. 165-175

Rachelle Pascoe-Deslauriers

Volume 35, issue 1, 2020

Delhi’s public health crisis and the neglect of urbanisation pp. 3-6

Ivan Turok

Beyond the city region? Uneven governance and the evolution of regional economic development in Scotland pp. 7-26

David Clelland

The effects of population and housing density in urban areas on income in the United States pp. 27-47

Daniel Hummel

Examining the policy mix for broadband deployment in Wales: The role of informal coordination in the last mile pp. 48-67

Dylan Henderson and Neil Roche

Promoting student enterprise: Reflections on a university start-up programme pp. 68-79

Colin Mason, Marion Anderson, Tomáš Kessl and Michaela Hruskova

Volume 34, issue 8, 2019

Beyond global hubs: Broadening the application of systems approaches pp. 755-766

Alexandra Tsvetkova, Rhiannon Pugh and Jana Schmutzler

Orchestrating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in an emerging country: The lead actor’s role from a social capital perspective pp. 767-786

Andrea Porras-Paez and Jana Schmutzler

Innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems: Implications for policy and practice in Latin America pp. 787-806

L Carlos Freire-Gibb and Geoff Gregson

Public policy’s role and capability in fostering the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: A case of ecosystem-based policy in Finland pp. 807-824

Nadja Nordling

Exploring the convergence between sustainability and local innovation systems from a southern perspective: What Brazilian empirical evidence has to offer pp. 825-837

Maria Gabriela Podcameni, José Eduardo Cassiolato, Maria Cecília Lustosa, Israel Marcellino and Pedro Rocha

Using technology to improve access to healthcare: The case of the MomConnect programme in South Africa pp. 838-852

Sara S Grobbelaar and Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado

Volume 34, issue 7, 2019

Places, practices and (soft) power pp. 627-631

Nicholas Wise and Kelly Maguire

Soft power in recycling spaces: Exploring spatial impacts of regeneration and youth entrepreneurship in Southern Italy pp. 632-656

Federica Scaffidi

Examining the power role of Local Authorities in planning for socio-economic event impacts pp. 657-679

Kelly Maguire

User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment? pp. 680-698

Nicholas Wise, Maurício Polidoro, Gareth Hall and Ricardo Ricci Uvinha

Exploring an Importance–Performance Analysis approach to evaluate destination image pp. 699-717

Hailong Wu and Takamitsu Jimura

Creating a coffee tourism network in the north of Thailand pp. 718-729

Natnaree Smith, Nopparat Suthitakon, Tepprasit Gulthawatvichai and Sombat Karnjanakit

Soft power and hard choices: A critical perspective on health and inclusion in disadvantaged communities pp. 730-738

Julie Clark, Nick Jenkins and Sarah Noone

Ukrainian migrants in Poland: Socio-economic inclusion or exclusion? pp. 739-744

Weronika A Kusek

A winter sport mega-event and its aftermath: A critical review of post-Olympic PyeongChang pp. 745-752

Jung Woo Lee

Volume 34, issue 6, 2019

The gift economy and the development of sustainability pp. 493-509

Niels Thygesen

Sustainable Development Goals and progressive business models for economic transformation pp. 510-524

Jacob D Rendtorff

Urban nature as transformed practice – A case of multi-dimensional processing to increase public value in Copenhagen pp. 525-544

Oleg Koefoed

Rethinking U.S. enterprise zones: The role of research design in program evaluation pp. 545-571

Sumei Zhang

The impact of institutional quality on Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa pp. 572-588

Andrew G Ross, Maktoba Omar, Anqi Xu and Samikshya Pandey

It’s more complicated than that!: Unpacking ‘Left Behind Britain’ and some other spatial tropes following the UK’s 2016 EU referendum pp. 589-606

Alexander Nurse and Olivier Sykes

Aesthetic-based competences lead to a sustainable learning practice pp. 607-617

Poula Helth

Rethinking public value through the lens of sustainability pp. 618-624

Christa Breum Amhøj, John Diamond and Flemming Olsen

Volume 34, issue 5, 2019

Local economic development and poverty reduction in developing societies: The experience of the ILO decent work project in Ghana pp. 405-420

Richardson Azunu and James Kwame Mensah

Cluster initiative management: A potential for African women entrepreneurs in the informal sector pp. 421-438

Obianuju E Okeke-Uzodike and Mogie Subban

Sustainability as an ecology of learning, thinking and acting: Using the World Health Organization’s six P’s as an action-research intervention to create public value with multiple bottom lines pp. 439-455

Christa Breum Amhøj

Interpreting ‘the social’: Exploring processes of social sustainability in Danish nonprofit housing pp. 456-470

Luise L Langergaard

Inclusive institutions and local economic evolution: Perspectives from Guayaquil and Quito pp. 471-488

L Carlos Freire-Gibb and Luis Tapia Carrillo

Corrigendum pp. 489-489

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Volume 34, issue 4, 2019

How effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment? The case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa pp. 329-345

Alexis Habiyaremye and Evans Mupela

Residents’ assessment of local government road infrastructure delivery in Ile-Ife, Nigeria pp. 346-363

Olorunfemi A Olojede, Samuel B Agbola and Kayode J Samuel

The Maker Faire of Rome as a window of observation on the new perspectives for local economic development and the new urban entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 364-381

Stefania Fiorentino

Design-led innovation and Circular Economy practices in regional Queensland pp. 382-402

Katja Fleischmann

Volume 34, issue 3, 2019

Is it possible to incentivise and capture local wealth? The business rate challenge pp. 213-220

Kevin Muldoon-Smith

Cities as platforms for progress: Local drivers of Rwanda’s success pp. 221-227

Ivan Turok

Broadband and uneven spatial development: The case of Cardiff City-Region pp. 228-247

Calvin Jones and Dylan Henderson

The availability of local services and its impact on community cohesion in rural areas: Evidence from the English countryside pp. 248-270

Ignazio Cabras and Chi KM Lau

Positive local externalities of immigration on entrepreneurship: Evidence from the UK East Midlands region pp. 271-293

Frederick Wedzerai Nyakudya

The opportunities and value-adding activities of buy-back centres in South Africa's recycling industry: A value chain analysis pp. 294-315

Jacoba Viljoen, Derick Blaauw and Catherina Schenck

Benefit sanctions, social citizenship and the economy pp. 316-326

David Webster

Volume 34, issue 2, 2019

Combined Authorities in England. Moving beyond devolution: Developing strategic local government for a more sustainable future? pp. 91-93

John Shutt and Joyce Liddle

In perspective: Setting up new Combined Authorities in England: A National Audit Office assessment pp. 94-105

Aileen Murphie

Money talks: The finances of English Combined Authorities pp. 106-122

Mark Sandford

Combined Authorities for more sub-regions? – Learning the adverse lessons from England beyond the metropolitan conurbations pp. 123-138

Alan Townsend

Local Enterprise Partnerships: Seven-year itch, or in need of a radical re-think? – Lessons from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, UK pp. 139-148

David Marlow

Why did the North East Combined Authority fail to achieve a devolution deal with the UK government? pp. 149-166

Maximilian Lemprière and Vivien Lowndes

Housing, growth and infrastructure: Supporting the delivery of new homes in the Sheffield City Region, UK pp. 167-180

Garreth Bruff and Felix Kumi-Ampofo

Combined Authorities and material participation: The capacity of Green Belt to engage political publics in England pp. 181-195

Quintin Bradley

Are Combined Authorities in England strategic and fit for purpose? pp. 196-207

John Shutt and Joyce Liddle

Craig Berry and Arianna Giovannini (eds), Developing England's North: The political economy of the Northern Powerhouse pp. 208-209

Joyce Liddle

Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle and Pamela T Dunning (eds), The Routledge handbook of international local government pp. 208-208

John Shutt

Volume 34, issue 1, 2019

Active labour market policy in the UK: At a (local) crossroads? pp. 3-9

Michael Orton and Anne E Green

A review of the current business rates scheme in Wales and the effects of a potential local retention pp. 10-32

Nikolaos Kapitsinis

Deprivation, policy and rurality: The limitations and applications of area-based deprivation indices in Scotland pp. 33-50

David Clelland and Carol Hill

Using the LM3 method to evaluate economic impacts of an on-line retailer of local food in an English market town pp. 51-67

Andrew Mitchell and Mark Lemon

Resources, competitiveness, and socioeconomic development: The case of a South American emerging economy pp. 68-87

Abel D Alonso