There is high interest in economic development efforts involving cooperation or
collaboration among metropolitan jurisdictions. To determine why some local governments …

Predispositions and orientation toward cooperation or competition with other jurisdictions
can play a critical role in implementing regional collaboration. By examining collaboration at …

Voluntary cooperative arrangements are increasingly being established among local
governments for economic development purposes. This article extends the institutional …

Local governments in the United States have adopted a variety of economic development
tools and strategies to revitalize and compete. This research considers two questions. First …

Purpose Green public procurement (GPP) may be a viable solution and an innovative policy
tool for public managers to address complex environmental issues facing communities …

Informal and formal collaborative mechanisms are distinctive self-governing strategies that
local governments use to mitigate intergovernmental collaboration risks. Studies on local …

This study extends research on Institutional Collective Action by testing a transaction cost
explanation for self-organising economic development agreements between US cities. We …

Custodians of Place provides a new theoretical framework that accounts for how different
types of cities arrive at decisions about residential growth and economic development …

This paper explores the conditions under which local governments are likely to engage in
formalized intergovernmental developmental cooperation. The author theorizes that policy …

Regional partnerships have grown popular as mechanisms to address public goods that
transcend local boundaries, but we know little about their effectiveness. For example, what …