The resilience of growth strategies

Pugalis, L; Gray, N; Townsend, A

The resilience of growth strategies

Pugalis, L

Gray, N Townsend, A

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Citation:: Creating Resilient Economies: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Development in Uncertain Times, 2017, pp. 160 - 174
Issue Date:: 2017-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pugalis, L https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8987-6356	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gray, N	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Townsend, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Creating Resilient Economies: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Development in Uncertain Times, 2017, pp. 160 - 174	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781785367632	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/127468
dc.description.abstract	© Nick Williams and Tim Vorley 2017., All rights reserved. Particularly marked since the onset of the global credit crunch, a pervasive economic growth narrative has inflected political and policy rationalities as nations, regions and cities have attempted to ‘bounce back’ from recessions as well as contend with other crises. This has engendered new conceptual debates at the interface between those concerned with economic resilience and economic growth. In England, voluntaristic public-private partnerships operating in the field of local and regional development have recently prepared Strategic Economic Plans. These plans are part strategic and part bidding documents, motivated by a boosterist policy of ‘going for growth’. Derived from a comparative analysis of growth plans and attendant empirical research, this chapter provides an examination of the manner with which these growth strategies reflect different understandings of resilience. Our findings reveal that while contemporary economic development practice often evokes the notion of resilience, this tends to be a ‘conservative’ reading of the objective utilised to get back to growth and/or maintain prevailing growth levels.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Creating Resilient Economies: Entrepreneurship, Growth and Development in Uncertain Times	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4337/9781785367649.00018	en_US
dc.title	The resilience of growth strategies	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/lnstitute for Public Policy and Governance
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - IPPG - Institute for Public Policy and Governance
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© Nick Williams and Tim Vorley 2017., All rights reserved. Particularly marked since the onset of the global credit crunch, a pervasive economic growth narrative has inflected political and policy rationalities as nations, regions and cities have attempted to ‘bounce back’ from recessions as well as contend with other crises. This has engendered new conceptual debates at the interface between those concerned with economic resilience and economic growth. In England, voluntaristic public-private partnerships operating in the field of local and regional development have recently prepared Strategic Economic Plans. These plans are part strategic and part bidding documents, motivated by a boosterist policy of ‘going for growth’. Derived from a comparative analysis of growth plans and attendant empirical research, this chapter provides an examination of the manner with which these growth strategies reflect different understandings of resilience. Our findings reveal that while contemporary economic development practice often evokes the notion of resilience, this tends to be a ‘conservative’ reading of the objective utilised to get back to growth and/or maintain prevailing growth levels.

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