| Series |
Routledge studies in urban sociology
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| Contents |
Introduction, Context, Cases -- Theorizing Local Development Strategies -- Patterns in the Industry -- Patterns in Location -- The Industrial Recruitment of Automotive Assembly Plants in the South -- The Business of Partnerships -- The Political and Economic in Partnership -- Axiomatic? A Weird, Blurred Line. |
| Abstract |
"Against the background of a growing tendency among state and local governments in the United States to vie against one another, spending public funds and foregoing corporate tax revenues in order to attract private investment, this book offers an analysis of local economic development and business recruitment in the automotive industry. Asking why localities felt they could - and, more importantly, should - make deals with private capital in the first place, it examines the shift towards entrepreneurial local governance from a global and historically informed perspective. Through a study of the 19 greenfield automotive assembly plants constructed in the U.S. during the neoliberal era, the author draws on interviews with corporate and government elites, to chart the connections between increasingly global competitive industry pressures and changing attitudes towards 'incentivizing' private investment. Studying the development of an approach that has partially reoriented local governments away from managing localities and towards helping manage transnational capital flows by absorbing some of the increasing risk of long-term capital investment, Entrepreneurial Governance in the Neoliberal Era will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics and urban studies with interests in globalisation, the sociology of work and industry, the sociology of development and neoliberal governance"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Oliver Cowart is a former assistant professor of sociology at Paine College, U.S.A. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cowart, Oliver, 1984- Entrepreneurial governance in the neoliberal era Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9780367620226 |
| LCCN | 2021015428 |
| ISBN | 9781003107569 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1003107567 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000452204 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000452204 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000452166 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000452167 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9781003107569 |
| Stock number | 9781003107569 Taylor & Francis |
