Cost-competitive places: shifting fortunes and the closure of Dell’s manufacturing facility in Ireland

Double Exposures and Decision Making: Adaptation Policy and Planning in Ireland's Coastal Cities during a Boom—Bust Cycle

“…The combination of the IDA's success and several other factors, including low corporate tax rates and infrastructure development funded through EU structural funds, helped to create the conditions for extraordinary economic growth (Kirby, 2010). However, this left the economy vulnerable when restructuring led to job losses (Collins and Grimes, 2011).…”

A cautionary tale of two ‘tigers’: Industrial policy ‘lessons’ from Ireland and Hungary?

“…While the sector shed jobs, it also was the source of the vast majority of jobs created in Ireland from 2010 to 2012 (ERM, 2012). In addition, as Collins and Grimes (2011) note, the types of jobs gained were of a higher value than those lost, representative of a move up the value chain for many high technology subsidiaries in Ireland.…”

Writing up the region: anchor firm dismantling and the construction of a perceived regional advantage in Swedish news media

“…Jansson, 2003) that could be used to mobilize and gather local or regional actors to take collective actions for turning around negative developments or to boost or push regional initiatives, to shift into a higher gear or to market the region in order to attract competences or capital (Eriksson, 2008; see also Collins & Grimes, 2011). Hence, the region and its industrial identity may be important for mobilizing economic interests, where the identity is understood as a social code originating from a shared understanding among people residing in or outside the region of how the region should be perceived in order to attract particular kinds of business activities or investments (see Romanelli & Khessina, 2005).…”

“…Hence, how the region or its firms are perceived by the surrounding world may have crucial importance for attracting outside investments to the region (see Avraham, 2004;Romanelli & Khessina, 2005). Here media are essential channels for putting the region and its actors on the map (Collins & Grimes, 2011).…”