Institutional design for community economic development models: Issues of opportunity and capacity

McCall, TJ

doi:10.1093/cdj/38.2.96

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“…Attention to capacity building accounts for much of the growth in the rural economic development literature during the past 10 years (Kenny 2002). It has attracted attention because of the central importance it plays in equipping communities to ‘identify, enhance, and mobilize its human potential, economic opportunities, social relationships, and ecological resources for the purpose of improved community stability’ (McCall 2003, 101). Research documenting the shifting emphasis from a comparative to a competitive advantage approach to rural economies emphasizes the importance of intangible assets, notably human and social capital, as the key to local capacity building.…”

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Rural Economic Development: A Review of the Literature from Industrialized Economies

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Halseth

2010

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Over the past 30 years, accelerating change has been one of the defining attributes of rural landscapes around the world. In response, there has been an increasing volume of rural economic development research and public/policy interest in that research. The purpose of this review article is not to provide a ‘state of the literature’ summary, but rather to highlight thematic directions, opportunities, and trends in the rural economic development literature over the past decade in industrialized economies. We review many of the longstanding research themes in rural economic development research: social and economic restructuring, barriers and challenges to economic development, community economic development, community capacity, governance, and policies and programs. We also explore a range of research issues that have (re‐) emerged over the past decade focusing on new approaches to understanding rural change and the deployment of development strategies in the context of the new rural economy.

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Section: Building Capacitymentioning

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Rural Economic Development: A Review of the Literature from Industrialized Economies

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Halseth

2010

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“…The motivation for examining social enterprises in regional Australia was that while the social economy is gaining greater credence from state governments in Australia, there is scant evidence of the social economy's role and contribution within the context of regional development, particularly that of social enterprises. Unlike Canada (McCall 2003) and some countries in Europe (Borzaga and Tortia 2009) where there is much greater attention to the role of the social economy in regional development initiatives, the challenges that regional Australia faces have not been widely explored or documented in terms of the social economy's potential contribution. The social economy in this case involved both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian social enterprise and therefore a decolonizing methodological approach was necessary.…”

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Acquaintance or partner? Social economy organizations, institutional logics and regional development in Australia

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Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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The social economy as a regional development actor is gaining greater attention given its purported ability to address social and environmental problems. This growth in interest is occurring within a global environment that is calling for a more holistic understanding of development compared to traditionally economic-centric conceptions. While regional development policies and practices have long considered for-profit businesses as agents for regional growth, there is a relatively limited understanding of the role of the social economy as a development actor. The institutional environment is a large determinant of all kinds of entrepreneurial activity, and therefore understanding the relationships between the social economy and broader regional development processes is warranted. This paper moves beyond suggestions of an economic-centric focus of regional development by utilizing institutional logics as a theoretical framework for understanding the role of social enterprises in regional development. A multiple case study of ten social enterprises in two regional locations in Australia suggests that social enterprises can represent competing logics to economic-centric institutional values and systems. The paper argues that dominant institutional logics can promote or constrain the inter-play between the social and the economic aspects of development, in the context of social enterprises.

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“…In the globalization era, local communities and regions are called on to play a front line role in mobilizing internal and external assets to establish economic development initiatives from the bottom-up (Robinson, 1995;Babacan and Gopalkrishnan, 2001;Leeming, 2002;McCall, 2003). This is what Kretzmann and McNight (1993) called 'asset-based community development'.…”

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Local economic development initiatives from the bottom-up: the role of community development corporations

Squazzoni¹

2008

Community Development Journal

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This paper deals with the pivotal role played by community development corporations (CDCs) in local economic initiatives from the bottom-up. These non-profit organizations are challenging the top-down approach of political decision making, mobilizing community assets, connecting inside and outside resources, synthesizing visions, expertise and methods from private, public and community sectors. In doing so, they are demonstrating the relevance of non-profit organizations and institutions in fostering social capital and promoting collective action across different sectors and actors. To illustrate these arguments, this paper has reported two case studies of local economic development initiatives in North America that are centered on two CDCs. The positive effects and critical points of CDCs have been addressed.

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Institutional design for community economic development models: Issues of opportunity and capacity

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Rural Economic Development: A Review of the Literature from Industrialized Economies

Rural Economic Development: A Review of the Literature from Industrialized Economies

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Local economic development initiatives from the bottom-up: the role of community development corporations

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