ABSTRACT
Public enterprise is a collaborative endeavour, and within scholars perspective, it is a collaboration led by local government. J. Kim considers the effect of collaborative leadership on the financial sustainability of local governments in South Korea. Leadership is a collaborative exercise, varying in Beer et al.’s study from community involvement to more professional cooperation, but it is crucial to locate it within places. Economic development may be viewed in a short-term sense – the ‘quick fix’ – or over the longer term. The territorial dimension of urban development remains crucially important. The challenges of growth and development in the West may learn from experience in very different political and economic conditions. Consultants, in A. Vogelpohl’s perspective, are both promoters of, and beneficiaries from, ‘entrepreneurialised’ urban development, especially at times of local crisis. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
