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On the Continuing Popularity of Industrial Recruitment

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  • Scott Loveridge

    (West Virginia University)

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Classic arguments against industrial recruitment as a local economic development strategy are reviewed. These include zero-sum effect, long odds, overbidding, low multipliers, increased costs to businesses and residents, and industrial obsolescence. Potential reasons for industrial recruitment's continuing popularity are explored, including tradition, expected value, political payoff high discount rate, weak communities, diversification, broad applicability, appropriateness, perverse outcomes, potential success, and underestimated benefits. Methods for quantifying major reasons for the popularity of recruiting are outlined.

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  • Scott Loveridge, 1996. "On the Continuing Popularity of Industrial Recruitment," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 10(2), pages 151-158, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:10:y:1996:i:2:p:151-158
    DOI: 10.1177/089124249601000202
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    5. Michael B. Teitz, 1997. "American Planning in the 1990s: Part II, The Dilemma of the Cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 34(5-6), pages 775-795, May.
    6. Andrew Beer, 1998. "Economic Rationalism and the Decline of Local Economic Development in Australia," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 13(1), pages 51-63, May.
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    14. Dagney Faulk, 2001. "The Participation of Firms in Tax Incentive Programs," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 31(1), pages 39-50, Summer.

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