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Regional Network for Quality Promotion: A Case-study of the Basque Country

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  • José M. Barrutia
  • Carmen Echebarria

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Quality promotion as a means of improving competitiveness is a major objective in many countries. This paper examines successful practices in the Basque Country over an 11-year period, with a view to shedding light on the theoretical literature. Research on policy networks has produced useful results but we are still some way from a plausible, consensus-based theory of policy networks. Based on experience in the Basque Country, an integrated approach to understanding the antecedents and consequences of a regional knowledge-driven network for quality promotion is offered. Other regions in developing countries could use this approach to achieve successful policy networks. Although Total Quality Management implementation in public sector entities has been studied before, evidence about Regional Quality Promotion experiences is scarce.

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  • José M. Barrutia & Carmen Echebarria, 2007. "Regional Network for Quality Promotion: A Case-study of the Basque Country," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 429-451, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:15:y:2007:i:3:p:429-451
    DOI: 10.1080/09654310601017158
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    1. Carmen Echebarria & Jose M. Barrutia, 2011. "Managing Policy Networks: A Social Marketing- And Collective Intelligence Systems-Driven View," ERSA conference papers ersa11p1402, European Regional Science Association.
    2. Beatriz Plaza, 2008. "On Some Challenges and Conditions for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to be an Effective Economic Re‐activator," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(2), pages 506-517, June.
    3. Jose M Barrutia & Carmen Echebarria & Ainhize Gilsanz, 2011. "Social capital and innovation: an empirical analysis in the context of European regions," ERSA conference papers ersa10p1347, European Regional Science Association.
    4. José M. Barrutia & Carmen Echebarria, 2010. "Developing a New Framework to Explain Transverse Evolution of Knowledge‐Driven Regional Policy Networks," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 906-924, December.

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