Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Urban Studies
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Eraydin, A.
Right arrow Articles by Senem Yasar, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Network Governance for Competitiveness: The Role of Policy Networks in the Economic Performance of Settlements in the Izmir Region

Ayda Eraydin

Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Eskiþehir, Yolu, Ankara, 06531, Turkey, ayda{at}metu.edu.tr

Bilge Armatli Köroglu

Department of City and Regional Planning, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, armatli{at}gazi.edu.tr

Hilal Erkus Öztürk

Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Eskiþehir, Yolu, Ankara, 06531, Turkey, herkus{at}metu.edu.tr

Suna Senem Yasar

Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University, Eskiþehir, Yolu, Ankara, 06531, Turkey, syasar{at}metu.edu.tr

Some cities and regions grow faster than others and they increase their relative shares in the global economy. The literature offers a wide list of factors of competitiveness, most of which define individual capacities of cities. Recently, however, there has been an increasing focus on the importance of network governance and the policy networks formed between different cities. This paper examines the importance of policy networks compared with other widely recognised factors of competitiveness to the economic performance of settlements in the Izmir region and investigates the importance of classical competitiveness indicators and network relations on their economic performance with the use of econometric methods. In conclusion, it discusses the importance of policy networks in administrative reform processes and economic development policies.

Urban Studies, Vol. 45, No. 11, 2291-2321 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008095869
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?