In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They re interested in operating as effectively as possible, in yielding the highest...

When Kodak and other Fortune 500 companies closed their plants in Chamblee,Georgia, it devastated the small city's economy. Chamblee began a process of"asset-based community development," but fell short of identifying itscompetitive advantage. The 1990 Census, however, revealed a unique asset -...

On April 29, 2009, a town hall meeting of women business owners was held in Atlanta at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Student Center. Hosted and facilitated by the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), this meeting was the seventh in a series of meetings that began in March 2007....

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often...

A well-developed financial intermediation industry increases domestic savings, efficiently allocates investment resources to the most productive uses in the economy and increases the rate of economic growth. In the Soviet economy the banking system served as a means of collecting household...

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency frontier in two economies that represent alternative...

Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of AgriculturalEconomists’ 2009 Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.