In Won Lee

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between competitive/cooperative motivations and interlocal collaboration networks based on a network survey conducted in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area and applied a quadratic assignment procedure regression analysis to examine how dyadic conceptual ties of cooperation and competition, along with the effect of community characteristics, affect policy network structures for economic development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the emergence of voluntary and self-organizing network relationships among local governments to address economic development concerns and demonstrate that both reciprocity and social clustering structures are preferred by both government and nongovernment organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that institutional collective action (ICA) problems arise from fragmentation of service responsibilities among a multitude of governments and authorities in metropolitan areas, and propose a solution to this problem.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of elected and appointed officials in local economic development policy networks to investigate the extent to which the structure of relationships reflects the efforts of actors to efficiently collect and process information or to enhance credible commitment, and how similarities and differences between local governments affect their network relationships.

TL;DR: The authors created a typology presenting various dimensions of social capital and tested the effects of multidimensional social capital on different economic development partnerships, finding that different dimensions contribute to creating economic development partnership regardless of local boundaries.