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Title: Analyzing the impact of corporate expansion driven job creation, wages paid, and level of financial investment on small business creations and failures: A county-level analysis.
Author: Smith, Kenya
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: This dissertation examines the relationship between corporate expansions and entrepreneurial startup activity and failures, the number of jobs created, wages paid, and level of investment received by the corporate relocate. Using data sourced from...

Title: Cluster Requiem and the Rise of Cumulative Growth Theory
Author: Kunkle, Gary
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Public administration
Description: Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster approach has been to regional scientists and policy makers it suffers from a number...

Title: The Appalachian Regional Commission's Use of Tourism as an Economic Development Tool in Eastern Kentucky: 1965 - Present
Author: Matthews, Taylor
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, History
Description: A federal agency that was established during the War on Poverty, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to help develop the Appalachian region through economic development initiatives and improve residents’ quality of life. Critics have c...

Title: The Effects of Space and Scale on Beta Convergence Testing in the United States, 1970-2004
Author: James, Ryan
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Convergence theory stems from neo-classical growth theory and hypothesizes that regional incomes will converge over time. Beta convergence, the idea that regions of initial poverty will grow faster than regions of initial wealth, has received a gr...