By Sergio Montero and Karen Chapple
Routledge
September 2018
In their groundbreaking book, Professors Sergio Montero and Karen Chapple challenge the understanding of local economic development that is based on large urban agglomerations as nodes of innovation and competitive advantage.
They do so primarily on the basis that the framework lacks applicability to secondary cities, and propose an alternative way of looking at local economic development, based on the idea of fragile governance and three variables: associations and networks; learning processes; and leadership and conflict management.
They include case studies of six Latin American ‘peripheral’ regions, which serve to illustrate the challenges of governance in small and intermediate cities and showcase strategies that are being used to achieve a more resilient and territorial vision of local economic development.
