The paper is based on the results of an IECON´s research requested by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, which analyzes the situation and prospects of the Law on Industrial Parks in Uruguay. This involved fieldwork and interviews with different actors related to public authorities...

By means of an exploratory and comparative study focusing on the three rural destinations in Wallonia (Chimay, Orval and Rochefort), we have put forward reflections on the role and influence of gastronomic confraternities, both as actors in local economic and tourist development and in terms of...

This paper addresses the legal and institutional issues generated by the organising and the provision of services of general interest (SGI) in Romania, with a special emphasis on the territorial distribution of competences and the derived responsibilities. It takes into consideration the...

El estudio de caso en economía regional que se presenta se comenzó en el mes de octubre del 2005 como una iniciativa conjunta entre el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica y la Sede del Atlántico, localizada en Turrialba. El propósito...

Incongruences generated since the democratic transition period have hindered local development actors and policies establishing a subsidiary relationship between the different tiers of Spanish administration. The economic crisis in Spain has further aggravated issues concerning funding and...

The applications of policies in Latin America contributed to macroeconomic stability but failed to redistribute income or dampen regional asymmetries within each country. Neither could maintain a employment growth, in Argentina case was a decline in employment level. This research began in...

Globalization and the crises context have influenced the local economic development in Romania and determined the government to adapt its policies according to them. This paper presents part of the results of a specific research on the impact of globalization and the government policies to the...

This paper describes a study of factors that have influenced the career development of senior managers in local government. It extends earlier work on business chief executives and chief officers of police carried out by Margerison and Kakabadse. It was found that the influences could be...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the main elements of the process of social innovation by using a case of a tourism cooperative created by an underprivileged community in Northeastern Brazil while assessing the applicability of the conceptual framework proposed by Centre de Recherche sur les...