Winning urban competition with a social agenda. The competition imaginary in Viennese urban development plans

Carina Altreiter (), Susanna Azevedo (), Laura Porak (), Stephan Puehringer () and Georg Wolfmayr ()
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Carina Altreiter: Institute for Sociology and Social Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Susanna Azevedo: Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria
Laura Porak: Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stephan Puehringer: Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; Institute of Economics, Cusanus Hochschule, Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
Georg Wolfmayr: Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stephan Pühringer

No 137, ICAE Working Papers from Johannes Kepler University, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy

Abstract: In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known less for its entrepreneurial policies than for its social welfare policies. The paper employs critical discourse analysis of Viennese policy papers from 1985-2015, a period particularly shaped by the process of competitization. The analysis shows that Vienna's social and welfare policies are also decisive for the city's positioning in urban competition and rankings.

Keywords: urban competition; urban policies; Vienna; competition imaginary; extra-economic competition; entrepreneurial city; social welfare policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2022-07
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