The Effectiveness of Small Towns’ Strategic Development Planning Based on the Network Coordination Mechanism

Abstract

The article discusses issues related to the effectiveness of strategic planning for the development of small citiesand municipal district centers on the base of the network coordination mechanism. The relevance of the topic is related to the insufficient effectiveness of existing approaches to municipal development planning, and the need to search for new solutions in this area. The authors briefly describe the new institutional economic theory approach in defining the network coordination mechanism, as well as the concept of the "network city". It is shown that the network coordination mechanism creates a basis for cooperation of small citiesin several directions, including infrastructure development, exchange of best management practices, labor resources and competencies, joint projects implementation. It is concluded that network cooperation of small citiescan contribute to increasing the effectiveness of strategic planning through the exchange of experience, alignment of interests and priorities of joint development. The obtained results can be used in the development of strategic planning documents for small cities and municipal district centers in Russia.

Ensuring The Socio-Economic Sustainability Of A Single-Industry Municipality Through Strategic Planning

“…In recent decades, solving the problems of single-industry towns, managing and stimulating their socio-economic development has been a matter of grave concern and discussion, both in developed and developing countries (Bartik, 2009;Bullock, 2013;Johannisson, 2015;Maier & Trippl, 2011). At the same time, methodological issues of strategic planning for the development of single-industry towns were repeatedly considered in Russian publications, including in the context of comparing international and Russian experience (Bukalo, 2014;Oborin et al, 2017;Rokhchin, 2005;Zamyatina & Pilyasov, 2016).…”