Through the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 (ETCA), Congress has sought to develop powerful new American trade intermediaries in the spirit of Japanese sogoshosha. However, a survey of firms registered under the ETCA indicates that their number is small, and their modest scale and...

Large urban agglomerations have been termed "seedbeds of innovation" and have been expected to engender new industries even as older ones disperse. However, new industries may exhibit locational tendencies quite different from those they supplant. We show for the case of Chicago, whose seedbed...

Local industrial development groups have grown rapidly in numbers and visibility around the nation as communities seek to promote economic development. The external connections of these groups include the network of contacts among local development groups and other organizations with a stake in...

The impact of economic restructuring in Cleveland was felt by more than those who either lost or changed jobs. The positive and negative effects of restructuring spilled into neighborhoods where workers live, resulting in marked changes in the incidence of poverty and the relative cost of...

Economic developers must understand the location needs of business in order to identify which types of industry have the best locational fit for their communities and to design and implement programs to attract them. Market research on location needs has been relatively unsophisticated, relying...

Since 1980 there has been both a rapid escalation in the costs associated with industrial recruitment and a dramatic increase in the number of states vying for new auto assembly facilities. The following study reviews both the business and nonbusiness factors relevant in location determination,...

This article explores variations in economic development goals and orientations among suburban governments and the impact of these on economic development programs. The research was conducted among suburban officials in the Chicago Metropolitan area who responded to a survey in 1987. The results...

Despite the large numbers of organizations claiming to promote economic development at the neighborhood level, there is little conceptual foundation for the idea. Substantial arguments can be made for alternative bases for economic development at the city or regional level, in contrast to...

Can state income transfers contribute to economic development? This essay concludes: maybe, and cautions against a full-speed-ahead approach to converting income transfers into economic development tools. Recent policy initiatives involving unemployment insurance and welfare programs generally...

This research note presents the results of a preliminary study in which census tract data have been used to (1) identify the nature of structural relationships existing between changes in the social, physical, and economic attributes of the neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware, and (2)...