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Regional Competitiveness of Tourism Cluster: A Conceptual Model Proposal
Ferreira, João; Estevão, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Tourism is characterized for being a sector that has been highlighted as one of the activities with greatest potential …, tourism accepts the prominence role of being a strategy for local development. In this context the search for competitiveness …, in regional development and in countries’ competitiveness, it is important to analyze its potential in tourism. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992876
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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition
Bischoff, Oliver - 2015
market competition. In markets with effective competition, horizontal multiple directorships turn out to be an efficient … firms have no significant influence on financial performance, irrespective of the level of competition intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024843
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Kapitał społeczny ludzi starych na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Białystok
Klimczuk, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258636
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Policies to improve the lives of Slum Dwellers – from international agreements to local contexts. The Brazilian case-study
Marques, Bruno Pereira; Carvalho, Rui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Last decades economic development induced massive international and regional migration flows directed to the urban spaces. The magnitude and swiftness of these processes determined that several cities’ authorities would fail to respond to the increasing demands of many social services. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259296
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Il volontariato può sostenere lo sviluppo? Riflessioni metodologiche per la costruzione di un frame work teorico
GAROFALO, MARIA ROSARIA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The main question of this paper is to investigate if and how the voluntary sector – as an institutional agent of the third sector - matters for the local development path. By adopting a multimensional and relational approach to the development, the paper surveys, compares and overlaps three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260011
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Local development initiatives: the case of São Paulo and ABCD municipalities
Marques, Bruno Pereira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
It was only in 1930’s and, especially, in the 50’s, that São Paulo (and its Metropolitan Region) became the main industrial hub of Brazil. It was the “Plano de Metas” of President Juscelino Kubitschek that led to the introduction of mass manufacturing industries, with emphasis on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260926
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Documento de trabajo. El impacto en el desarrollo local de las políticas educativas en el municipio de medellín entre 2004 – 2011.
Zapata, Anzoategui; Camilo, Juan; Roldan, Vásquez; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study is inspired by determining the scope of the public policy of the city of Medellín in the education component and its impact on the index of quality of life of its citizens. Progress identified in the local development of the city taking as a reference the policies implemented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265680
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Neither easy nor impossible: Local development economics and policy
Seravalli, Gilberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
relevant development policy (and for many, the only possible policy) is to reduce curbs to maximum competition in all sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220658
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Tourism - Part of Sustainable Local Development
Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian; Popescu, Ramona Florina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the local population. Tourism is one of the most important branches in Romanian economy, having at its disposal a huge … development potential. This field can represent a development chance for many areas. The diversity of tourism activities as well … as the presence of some of them in the structure of other branches of economy offers tourism the character of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835779
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Units of investigation for local economic development policies
Russo, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
The idea that industry is not an adequate research unit in the analysis of development pol-icy is well known. It was present in the tradition of regional economists working on the con-cept of industrial complex, in Perroux’ theory of the pole of development, in Damhen’s defi-nition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836607