Economic Development Policy Making in Rust Belt Regions: Three Essays Using Social Network Analysis to Study Cooperation and Collaboration

The three papers presented here set out to explore network structures and collaboration in metropolitan regions in the Rust Belt, to attempt to both understand what the network structures look like relative to the extant literature and currently popular economic development policies and to explore how much collaboration is occurring in these regions. In addition, this is done using a quantifiable methodology in an easily replicable manner that can be used by others to develop a generalizable understanding of the role of networks and collaboration in economic development outcomes.

Author

• Ficenec, Sarah

Language

• en

Keyword

• regional
• network
• collaboration
• economic development

Date created

• 2017

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Public Policy & Administration

Degree

• Ph.D.

Advisor

• Wolman, Hal

Committee Member(s)

• Balla, Steve
• Rigby, Elizabeth

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/9p2909506