Från isolering mot samverkan? - En deskriptiv studie av lokalt näringslivsfrämjande i Stockholms län

Sammanfattning: The acts of promoting local business and implementing efforts to appear as an attractive location for potential business are rather new activities among Swedish municipalities. The knowledge about how these activities are organised and what strategies are perused are fairly limited. In addition the structures concerning cooperation between municipalities for economic policies contain incentives both for and against cooperation. This creates a complicated situation. Using prior research mainly done by Markus Gossas, Lennart J Lundqvist and an analytical model designed by Jon Pierre, which in this essay is completed with the works of Roger Henning, these issues are addressed. The material used contains of a questioner sent to the municipalities in Stockholm county and is complemented by information from the web and interviews of vary basic nature. The results show that that the ways of organizing and implementing the activities for attracting and promoting business locally has changed and that the cooperation between municipals has increased