Conceptualizing Nonmarket Municipal Entrepreneurship: Everyday Municipal Innovation and the Roles of Metropolitan Context, Internal Resources, and Learning

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 718-751

  Shearmur, Richard ^a   Poirier, Vincent ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

everyday innovation; municipal innovation; Schumpeter; urban entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; QUEBEC [QUEBEC (PRV)];

EID: 85020492027     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: 15528332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1078087416636482     Document Type: Article

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