Model for Local Economic Development
Collaboration
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- This report analyzes the key aspects needed to successfully operate at the Vietnamese BOP, thereby focusing on the role of local actors. The results were obtained by conducting interviews with businesses operating at the Vietnamese BOP and with a trade promotion centre linked to the People’s Committee of Can Tho.
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Wijnholds & Op den Kamp, Key aspects of successfully conducting business at the Vietnamese BOP.
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- This thesis provides information what the needs of the rural BoP in India are and how local Indian partners can help U.S. multinational firms in fast moving consumer goods to sell products to these people but on the other hand create development for the rural BoP. India is a huge country with a big variety of cultures, geographically dispersed and has many different climates. For U.S. multinationals it is hard to target a new kind of customers in one of the most difficult markets of the world.
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Pierik, The world's most capitalistic multinationals in areas that need social help.
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- The objective of this research is to create an evaluation method for firms that considers all the values created by the firm, as well as all the actors that interact with the firm in the process of this value creation. This research examined 30 European Multinationals to identify which values they create besides profit and with which other actors they cooperate in this process. The results show that multinationals create four values and this do this in collaboration with eight other actors.
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Voors, Moving beyond profit: MNCs and multi-value creation.
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- This research aimed to uncover factors that can help developing countries with significant amounts of natural resources in avoiding the so-called ‘natural resource curse’. Previous studies show mixed results; some countries show a surge in economic growth, whereas others end up with conflicts and environmental degradation, i.e. the natural resource curse. Posing local economic development and innovation as sources of national economic growth (the antithesis of the natural resource curse), this case study involved semi-structured interviews with various local stakeholders on the topic of recent natural gas findings in Tanzania. From the analysis of the interview data, a number of factors were uncovered that may lead to positive outcomes of resource exploitation. These factors include (1) the government, (2) knowledge and education, (3) local participation, (4) revenues, (5) transparency, (6) legal issues, and (7) finance and capital.
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Bekkers, Avoiding the natural resource curse: The case of the Tanzanian natural gas exploitation .
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- This research looks into an agricultural exporter in Indonesia that sources cinnamon from Sumatra: Spicy Exports. More specifically, it investigates how to strengthen the linkages between Spicy Exports and their suppliers by building trust. Currently, the relationship is characterized by arms-length transactions and high opportunistic behavior. Using grounded theory, a model for building trust is developed from the data gathered throughout the research.
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van Genderen, Trust, Spicy Exports and Local Economic Development: The case of Spicy Exports, Indonesia.
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- The main purpose of this research is to explore the ways in which Burkinabe managers cooperate in top-level management teams. It was found that they are usually not competent to make all necessary decisions to perform their tasks as a top management team. They solve problems in a routine manner and communication between team members is open.
Becker, Cooperation in Burkinabe management teams.
- In this research the objective was to find out how collaboration, collaborative strategy and institutional interfere with sustainable competitive development of innovation in a developing region in Indonesia? It can be concluded that the impact of institutional interference and collaborations on innovation in this specific region is significant. There is a basis for innovation based on both institutional and ‘cooperative support’.
Dooijerweerd, Collaborative Strategy and Institutional Interference to Stimulate Innovation in Regional Economic Development.
- The research shows the importance of empowerment in collaborative structures (currently failing through state cooperatives). Following new initiatives to increase strategic and structural empowerment, through vertical integration – such as semi-processing at the farmer level.
Roelofsen, Calling for chains to change: How Farmer Empowerment Can Advance Economic Development.
- There have been set up numerous LERD projects over the past years, but not every project is very successful.
Projects need more socialization in the form of collaboration between universities, the government, local leaders and entrepreneurs. Universities can also provide education and stimulate innovation. Furthermore, the quality of the coordination of entrepreneurial activities can be improved by providing a central where local producers/entrepreneurs etcetera can meet. Lastly, empowerment can be enhanced by giving training, providing starting capital (in the form of micro credit) and creating networks.
Vincent Wolfard, Local Economic Research Development: A synopsis of the projects in Indonesia.
- Local Economic Development is also about imbalance within a region or country, and how to reduce this imbalance. Several things are important for this. First of all, both national and local government should introduce a policy which reduces the imbalance and create coordinated economic and development. This can be done via preferential treatments, tariffs etc. Secondly, infrastructure should be improved in order to improve the quality of the regional and local community. Third, education should be improved in order to increase innovation and thus local economic development. Lastly, sustainable development should be more enhanced which can be done by the national and regional government or by local leaders.
Li Zhang, The Research of Regional and Local Economic Development in Intraprovincial Inequality.
- Local Economic Development programs can be evaluated using the CIPP (context, input, process and product) model. Context can be seen as the goals for local economic development, the input are the plans to reach those goals, the processes are the actions taken to execute the plans and the product is the outcome of the actions. If the LED programs are effective quality of life of local people and competitiveness of the region should increase. Furthermore, collaboration between all relevant stakeholders should be enhanced more(both public and private sector, entrepreneurs). Lastly, institutions should facilitate the transfer of knowledge from participants through organized and planned events.
Ratih Kusuma Dewi, Deciding Evaluation in Local Economic Development.
- The competitiveness of a region is an important factor of local economic development. However, in the existing model there is one variable missing which can influence a region’s competitiveness for the better; human coordination. Public and private companies, entrepreneurs, institutions and the community should all work together in regional/local economic development projects to get the greatest benefit out of it.
Mark Vredegoor, Endogenous variables and the influence they have on the sustainability and competitiveness of regional seaweed industries in Indonesia.
- CSR is about conquering the future market, through investing in the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). The long term conquering of this market is argued to be helped by integrating the BoP market into the value chain. Important for this is collaboration between different types of leaders at both local and regional level and a link between the role of outside actor (NGO/MNC) and local leaders.
Richard van Genderen, Integration of the Bottom of the Pyramid in the Business Models of Indonesian MNCs: New ways of thinking about Corporate Social Responsibility.
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