Competitors and Cooperators: A Micro-Level Analysis of Regional Economic Development Collaboration Networks

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lee, In-Won; Feiock, Richard C.; Lee, Youngmi
• 署名单位: Dankook University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02501.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 253-262
• 关键词: METROPOLITAN-AREAS; collective action; partnerships; GOVERNMENT; FRAMEWORK

摘要

Predispositions and orientation toward cooperation or competition with other jurisdictions can play a critical role in implementing regional collaboration. By examining collaboration at the micro level, this article investigates how individual factors, including perceptions of cooperation and competition, as well as institutional and environmental factors, are related to regional collaboration. In particular, the authors assert that competitive motivation may support the emergence of regional governance mechanisms. This article explores the relationships between competitive/cooperative motivations and interlocal collaboration networks based on a network survey conducted in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area. The authors apply a quadratic assignment procedure regression analysis to examine how dyadic conceptual ties of cooperation and competition, along with the effect of community characteristics, affect policy network structures for economic development. By comparing estimated coefficients with sampling distributions of coefficients from all of the permuted data sets, the regression results indicate the influences of perceived competition/cooperation on the network exchange.