‘It’s déjà vu all over again’ : looking back at the Welsh Development Agency

Gooberman, Leon

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“…Academic interest in the Welsh economy has been relatively limited, with much of the historiography focused on Wales national status or specific 'labour history' focusing on Wales industrial history (Gooberman, 2017). Nevertheless, analysis of the Welsh economy and economic policy is a growing field, although predominantly the focus has been on the evaluation of economic policy of the latter half of the twentieth century, including a focus on the Welsh Development Agency (Gooberman, 2020;Gooberman & Boyns, 2019) wideranding industrial heritage (Miskell, 2020). One area of economic policy of the postdevolution era which has had a significant level of academic attention has been innovation policy, with findings suggesting high-profile supply-side interventions have resulted in relative failure (Pugh et al, 2018) which has followed 'path-dependency', with policy remaining rigid to the interpretations and objectives held at the start of the period despite attempts to develop them more widely (Henderson, 2019).…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Policy and Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intentions in Post-Devolution Wales

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This thesis develops the understanding of the relationship between place, policy and entrepreneurial intentions among Welsh HE students. Recent decades have seen a growth in interest in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship policy among governments and academia, as a means of encouraging economic development. A key aspect of this policy aim has been to increase rates of entrepreneurialism among individuals in a given society through the development of a ‘culture of enterprise’. This research focuses on Wales, a country within the United Kingdom which has seen recent political and institutional change through the process of devolution, and saw rapid economic change in the latter decades of the twentieth century through the process of rapid deindustrialisation. The research employs the social constructivist approach to research and utilizes qualitative methods. To develop an understanding of policy in the twenty years since the establishment of the Welsh Government, data was collected in the form of documentary analysis of key political and economic strategy documents, and this was supplemented by interviews with key political figures during the period. To understand entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions, data was collected from 25 semi-structured interviews with Welsh HE students from universities both in and outside of Wales, who had varying degrees of interest in entrepreneurship. This research contributes to the theoretical understanding of how place and policy interact to inform the development of attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurial behaviour, with implications for policy and practice for Wales and elsewhere.

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Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Policy and Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intentions in Post-Devolution Wales

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Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–1100

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2021

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Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945

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2022

The Economic History Review

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Long-term changes to political economy and social structures as well as growing inequalities across and within generations were dominant features of British economic and social history research published in 2020. Brexit also provided an important looming backdrop for explaining societal conflicts as well as the importance of political and business relationships during earlier experiences of European integration. Statistical studies have unveiled disquieting long-term health trends. Jivraj et al's research on postwar age cohorts revealed a prolonged tendency towards longer but less healthy lives since the 1990s. Increasing morbidity has accompanied rising life expectancy, with working-age people more likely to report ill health. Grundy et al shed further lights on how health and socioeconomic circumstances interrelate by using the English Longitudinal Study. Their findings reveal relationships between deprivation earlier in life and depression later, demonstrating how health trends are interrelated with rising economic inequalities. Schaefer and Singleton's study of wages within large firms suggest that when occupation effects are controlled for, inequality within, rather than between, enterprises are the lead factor in explaining income inequality. Dagdeviren et al's study of welfare retrenchment revealed that for those at the sharp end of these developments, credit has become a means of obtaining necessities rather than socially pressured consumption as it had been in the past. Since 2010, benefit cuts and the growing use of sanctions have increased the tendency for low-income borrowers to turn to unorthodox lenders and contributed to higher levels of debt owed to non-financial creditors such as utilities companies. At the opposite end of the class spectrum, Willman and Pepper's study of FTSE 100 pay practices illuminates the transition from 'administrative' inequality governed through salaries set by boards to 'outsourced' (p.516) inequality determined by compensating executives with capital market assets.

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‘It’s déjà vu all over again’ : looking back at the Welsh Development Agency

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Policy and Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intentions in Post-Devolution Wales

Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Policy and Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intentions in Post-Devolution Wales

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (i) 400–1100

Review of periodical literature for 2020: (vi) Since 1945

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