1st Edition
Cultivating Grass-Roots for Regional Development in a Globalising Economy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organised Markets
By James Cécora
Copyright 1999
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999. The key to successful regional development is more a personality issue than a global one, contends social economist Dr. James Cécora. With a fresh new interdisciplinary approach, Cécora tackles traditional economic theory to show that a distinct type of individual, the 'innovative entrepreneur', can do more to secure economic stability in a particular region than any... Read more
1. Goals and Policies for Regional Development: A Critical View from the Grass-Roots 2. The Global Economy: The Sea on Which National and Regional Economies Sail 3. Behavioural Dynamics at the Grass-Root Level: Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Functions of Personality, Social Structures and Cultural Configurations 4. Individual Actors: Personal Factors in Innovative Behaviour and Enterprise 5. Contexts: Socio-Cultural Embeddedness and its Implications for, Opportunities for and Constraints on Innovative Behaviour and Enterprise 6. Summary and Conclusions
Biography
James Cécora
’...builds a case for supporting and promoting the development of entrepreneurs at local and regional level.’ CAB Abstracts ’...very valuable to all those who are interested in understanding this complex subject.’ TESG (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) ’...Cécora does an excellent job of comprehensively reviewing the literature on the topics relevant to stimulating development of rural and less developed regions...The book contains interesting perspectives on the sociocultural aspects of regional development policy...’ APA Journal
