Everyone's a 'winner': problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness

By G. Bristow. 2005

420 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, Urban Studies

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Kieron Flanagan
2. J. Tomaney
3. A. Pike
4. A. Rodríguez‐Pose
5. Elvira Uyarra
6. Chris Hall
7. Misato Sato
8. Antoine Dechezleprêtre

In Strategy and Management

1. Elvira Uyarra
2. A. Rodríguez‐Pose
3. J. Tomaney
4. Chris Hall
5. Misato Sato
6. Kieron Flanagan
7. A. Pike
8. Antoine Dechezleprêtre

In Urban Studies

1. A. Rodríguez‐Pose
2. J. Tomaney
3. Chris Hall
4. Misato Sato
5. Kieron Flanagan
6. A. Pike
7. Elvira Uyarra
8. Antoine Dechezleprêtre

Citations in the corpus

• The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Competitiveness (2017, background): “In general, it refers to the ability of a firm or sector to survive competition in the marketplace, grow, and be profitable (Bristow 2005).”
• Urban Entrepreneurship, Corporate Interests and Sports Mega-Events: The Thin Policies of Competitiveness within the Hard Outcomes of Neoliberalism (2006, background): “Indeed, the competitiveness hegemony is such that according to some economic analysts, ‘the critical issue for regional economic development practitioners to grasp is that the creation of competitive advantage is the most important activity they can pursue’ (Barclays, 2002 cited in Bristow, 2005).”
• From Regional Systems of Innovation to Regions as Innovation Policy Spaces (2010, background): “Bristow (2005) further stresses the power of the competitiveness discourse of the new regionalist literature, which appeals to both business interests and national and regional policy elites, particularly those advocating greater self-government.”
• From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes (2007, neutral): “6 important arena for the concentration of academic and political interest in the quest to embrace the hegemonic discourse of regional competitiveness (Bristow, 2005).”
• Shifting horizons in local and regional development (2017, background): “The trope of “regional competitiveness” is pervasive in the world of economic development policy, although this rests on a narrow conception territorial development and overemphasises the importance of the firm to the region and the region to the firm, implying the existence of a collective territor”