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This chapter develops a conceptual framework drawn largely from the strategic management literature to investigate local and regional economic reinvention and adaptation in the face of global economic changes in advanced democracies. Strategic management in this context is about setting up interorganizational governance structures that facilitate the integration of collaborative planning and implementation across a network of agencies to enhance the fulfilment of missions. These governance structures not only enable agencies to meet their mandates but also support sustained creation of public value in fast-changing policy environments. The framework of strategic management developed in this chapter provides a basis for investigating a case of regional economic reinvention in a municipal jurisdiction in Canada. While the case is drawn from Canada, the implications of the discussion extend far beyond Canada because the reality of city-regions as organic engines of economic growth and job creation in a globalized economy is gaining increasing recognition worldwide.
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Conteh, C. (2014). Strategic Management at the Local Level: City-Regions Managing Global Economic Change. In: Joyce, P., Bryson, J.M., Holzer, M. (eds) Developments in Strategic and Public Management. IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336972_13
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