Outsourcing Economic Development: Exploring the Efficacy of Economic Development Corporations in Rural North Carolina

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dc.contributor.author Peters, Thomas
dc.coverage.spatial North Carolina en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2025-03-28T16:53:50Z
dc.date.available 2025-03-28T16:53:50Z
dc.date.issued 2024-12-12
dc.identifier.other 10cb81ae-849b-4121-8469-7109b9af1afb en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7397
dc.description.abstract Shrinking local government budgets created an economic development environment in which local governments find it more cost effective to outsource development activities than assume the burden of development activities in-house. This research was conducted to quantitatively assess the performance of economic development corporations with the aim to provide an understanding about the efficacy of economic development corporations by analyzing quantitative data to find if rural counties in North Carolina with economic development corporations experience greater economic growth than rural counties without economic development corporations. There is little academic or practitioner research that addresses the performance of economic development corporations. Consequently, little is known about how effective these private non-profit organizations are at increasing economic development at the local level. The results of this study are mixed. Rural municipalities without an economic development corporation have a higher, positive correlation with population and gross domestic product (GDP) variables. Conversely, the correlation for labor, wage and the housing variable shows higher correlation (negative and positive depending on the variable) in rural municipalities that have an economic development corporation. The statistical findings of this research show only a positive effect in labor/wages and housing. The existence of an economic development corporation did not have a positive effect on the en_US
dc.format.extent 1 electronic record. PDF/A document, 80 pages, 2659649 bytes. en_US
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dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.rights This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed. en_US
dc.subject Public administration en_US
dc.subject Dissertations, Academic--United States en_US
dc.subject Economic Development en_US
dc.subject North Carolina en_US
dc.subject Rural development--North Carolina en_US
dc.subject Contracting out en_US
dc.subject Local government en_US
dc.subject Public-private sector cooperation en_US
dc.subject Rural municipalities--North Carolina--Economic conditions en_US
dc.subject Housing--Economic aspects--North Carolina en_US
dc.subject Labor market--North Carolina en_US
dc.subject Wages--North Carolina en_US
dc.subject Quantitative research en_US
dc.subject Policy studies en_US
dc.title Outsourcing Economic Development: Exploring the Efficacy of Economic Development Corporations in Rural North Carolina en_US
dc.type Dissertation en_US
dc.contributor.department Department of Political Science of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences en_US
dc.description.advisor Kellner, Kellner
dc.description.committee Yehl, Robert
dc.description.committee Merwin, Gerald
dc.description.degree D.P.A. en_US
dc.description.major Political Science en_US


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