IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ecdequ/v26y2012i2p124-137.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Role of Economic Development Corporations in Local Economic Development

Author

Listed:
  • Christopher A. Jarmon
  • James M. Vanderleeuw
  • Michael S. Pennington
  • Thomas E. Sowers

Abstract

Since their establishment, city-level economic development corporations in Texas have grown in popularity as an ostensible means of providing for economic development. However, one knows little about the association between these economic development entities and the economic vitality of the areas they serve. Using a 2005-2006 survey of city leaders in Texas, along with Census data for 304 Texas cities, the authors investigate the association between the use of economic development corporations and the level of local unemployment. Results of the analysis indicate that economic development corporations have a reliable association with lower levels of unemployment; however, the activities of these entities matter. Lower levels of community employment are associated with activities that focus on industrial development. In contrast, the authors find no reliable relationship between the level of city unemployment and economic development corporations that engage in quality of life activities.

Suggested Citation

  • Christopher A. Jarmon & James M. Vanderleeuw & Michael S. Pennington & Thomas E. Sowers, 2012. "The Role of Economic Development Corporations in Local Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 26(2), pages 124-137, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:26:y:2012:i:2:p:124-137
    DOI: 10.1177/0891242412437877
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891242412437877
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0891242412437877?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tunstall, Thomas, 2015. "Recent Economic and Community Impact of Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploration and Production on South Texas Counties in the Eagle Ford Shale Area," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 45(1).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:26:y:2012:i:2:p:124-137. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.