Local and Regional Development in the Conditions of Globalisation

Dear Colleagues,

As living conditions, wellbeing, and life chances are unequally distributed across time and space, regional and local development remains the focus of both researchers and policy makers. Hence, discovering the sources of prosperity of some places and the hardships of the others, as well as designing the policies and instruments that stimulate economic development are robust and ambitious tasks even more. In recent decades, the landscape of regional and local development has become even more complex with the rise and omnipresence of globalization. The latter is a multifaceted process that causes a great variety of consequences for local and regional development. On the one hand, globalisation is sometimes seen as a threat to underdeveloped regions, as they become exposed to powerful transnational corporations capable of colonializing and dominating disadvantaged areas. On the other hand, however, the development capacity of underdeveloped regions can be spurred through international flows of capital and labor mobility, the establishment of trade relations, and links with corporate networks of production and innovation. Clearly, the relationship between regional and local development, and globalization remains intriguing and ambiguous.

We invite conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers that include the following:

• provide critical appraisals of the regional and local development processes influenced by globalization;
• present various manifestations of globalization at a local and regional level;
• demonstrate regional or local resilience/vulnerability in relation to global disturbances;
• reflect upon policy instruments that allow for disadvantaged areas to benefit from globalization.

Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
Dr. Bartłomiej Kołsut
Dr. Robert Kudłak
Guest Editors

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