A new perspective on local political entrepreneurship: Evidence from Portugal

Teixeira, Aurora A.C.; Silva, Carina

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“…Early studies of entrepreneurship were focused on the actions of heroic ‘individuals who change the direction and flow of politics’ (Schneider and Teske, 1992: 737). But such a role could also be performed by groups or teams within organizations (Morris and Jones, 1999: 73; Phillips and Tracey, 2007: 315; Teixeria and Silva, 2012: 335; Wenger, 1998), or entire organizations that are trying to win advantage across levels of governance (see Hederer, 2007; Perkmann, 2007; Roberts and King, 1996). A more organization-focused approach to entrepreneurship underscores the importance of group learning (Roberts and King, 1996: 165) and the succession of entrepreneurial actors over time.…”

Section: Public Entrepreneurialism In Mlgmentioning

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Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-level governance

Catney

Henneberry

2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The paper uses a case study of urban regeneration policy in Sheffield, UK, to explore local public entrepreneurship in a system of multi-level governance. Recent analyses of public entrepreneurs have directed attention to the macro-political structural and institutional conditions that enable and constrain these actors, and to their individual characteristics and attributes. The stress has been on the national level and on individual action at the expense of the agency of local networks of entrepreneurs. In order to address this lacuna, we consider how local policy entrepreneurs work across governance levels and develop ideas, institutional structures and support in pursuit of their goals, using Kingdon's notion of policy streams as a vehicle for our analysis. We highlight the contingent and path-dependent nature of such entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the temporal sequencing of agenda shifts and entrepreneurial actions as a crucial aspect of the policy process.Keywords Public entrepreneurship, multi-level policy, policy streams, policy windows IntroductionThe dominant narrative of central-local government relations in the UK has been the power of central government to make and remake the institutional landscape and, in so doing, to erode the institutional cohesiveness, policy competences and autonomy of local political institutions (c.f. Pratchett, 2004;Wilson, 2003). However, the past two decades have also seen the advance of multi-level governance (MLG) (Keating, 2014) and increased opportunities for 'authority migration' (Broschek, 2014) to institutional actors at supraand sub-national levels, allowing greater scope for the exercise of local autonomy. The UK's institutional regime is currently the subject of rapid restructuring. Examples of this include the rise of city regions (c.f. Deas, 2014;Etherington and Jones, 2009;Harding, 2007; Harrison, 2010Harrison, , 2012Jonas and Ward, 2007) and institutional innovations such as combined authorities and elected mayors. The implementation of these changes has been selective. The paper explores one explanation for this uneven distribution of powers: public entrepreneurship. While the concept challenges institutionalism's limited treatment of institutional change, accounts often fail properly to locate the actions of entrepreneurs within a context of MLG, restricting our understanding of how such a setting may enable or constrain agency. In a multi-level polity -or more specifically, in policy fields that incorporate institutional actors from many sites -numerous policy processes play out across different levels and are often misaligned. Within the UK, sub-national actors have been firmly subordinate to actors at higher levels and the former are reliant on the latter for resources to devise and implement policies. MLG is a potential alternative source of mobilization by sub-national actors (Marshall, 2005(Marshall, , 2006. Successful entrepreneurship thus depends on how well actors operate within and across governmental levels and the ways in ...

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Section: Public Entrepreneurialism In Mlgmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-level governance

Catney

Henneberry

2016

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…What will ultimately define the final result of decentralisation is, besides specific factors, the interaction between the type of decentralisation and the conditions under which it takes place. To simplify, the conditions that influence the success of a decentralisation process, that is, the increasing involvement of local entities, can be divided into two groups: the attributes of the local municipalities (the extent to which local authorities are motivated to support the process and the availability of financial and technical resources) and structural variables, such as the type and magnitude of the resources possessed, the local power relationships and the characteristics of the local economy (Pacheco, 2004;Teixeira and Silva, 2012).…”

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Local municipalities’ involvement in promoting the internationalisation of SMEs

Teixeira

Barros

2014

Local Economy

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Despite extensive research on decentralisation, the role of local governments in promoting the internationalisation of firms has been rather neglected in the literature. Based on a sample of 144 Portuguese municipalities, and resorting to logistic econometric estimations, we found that: (1) the majority of municipalities have been involved in activities to promote economic development and the internationalisation of firms; (2) municipalities are essentially involved in the branding of regions (image building) or in organising fairs and trade missions and (3) municipalities more active in promoting the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) tend to be more peripheral, with a relatively high area and population density, higher purchasing power, higher proportion of population with secondary schooling, lower density entrepreneurial context but with higher amounts of exports. Although there is still a long way to go for a more profound and comprehensive decentralisation at this level in Portugal, given the knowledge municipalities possess about the firms that are located in their vicinity, we contend that it would be desirable that more decentralised efforts be put towards the implementation of information, and education/training-related programmes aiming at promoting SMEs internationalisation.

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“…Nos últimos anos, a evolução dos governos locais em Portugal, à semelhança dos demais países, tem observado diversas mudanças, designadamente (Rodrigues e Araújo, 2005): a transferência de competências; a reforma do sistema de financiamento das autarquias locais; a maior autonomia das autarquias locais; e as novas formas de prestação de serviços públicos. Tais mudanças estão potencialmente associadas ao processo de empreendedorismo político (Teixeira e Silva, 2012).…”

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Mapeamento do Empreendedorismo do Poder Local em Portugal

Silva

Teixeira

2012

Rev. Port. de Estud. Reg.

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Sendo o empreendedorismo político um tema que tem merecido elevado destaque na literatura, a evidência empírica nesta área tem sido escassa, em grande parte devido a limitações ao nível da operacionalização do conceito. Neste artigo, operacionalizamos o empreendedorismo político (local) considerando três dimensões principais: 1) Captação de fundos; 2) Posse e/ou construção de infraestruturas para apoiar as atividades empresariais e sociais; e 3) Atividades de apoio e serviços necessários às atividades empresariais e sociais. Baseados em informação recolhida junto de 108 municípios portugueses, quantificamos o empreendedorismo político global nas três dimensões referidas, obtendo um ranking dos municípios e das regiões NUTS III correspondentes. Adicionalmente, através da estimação de especificações econométricas, concluímos que o empreendedorismo político local tem um impacto positivo e significativo, mas indireto, via capital humano da população empregada, na criação de novos negócios, designadamente os intensivos em conhecimento. Por outras palavras, o impacto das ações empreendedoras das autoridades de política local é tanto mais elevado quanto maior for a percentagem da população empregada com ensino superior na região. Nesta base, não basta que o poder local seja “empreendedor”; complementarmente às ações públicas de captação de fundos, construção de infraestruturas e promoção de atividades para dinamização empresarial, é necessário garantir que a região é dotada de um nível de capacidade de absorção – capital humano e investimento em atividades de I&D – adequado.

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A new perspective on local political entrepreneurship: Evidence from Portugal

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-level governance

Public entrepreneurship and the politics of regeneration in multi-level governance

Local municipalities’ involvement in promoting the internationalisation of SMEs

Mapeamento do Empreendedorismo do Poder Local em Portugal

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