Seth Pipkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Pipkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Pipkin |
| SIGNATURE | PIPKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9482-008X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Discipline to flourish
Do Local Governments Listen to the Experts? A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of Local Economic Development Policies
Research on local economic development (LED) policy remains limited in its access to detailed information about what policies are practiced where. This study helps to fill important gaps with a unique data set of 106 localities’ responses to Amazon.com's 2017 “HQ2” RFP. These data are analyzed qualitatively to assess patterns in policy practice and their relationship to local characteristics. Highlighting the balance between use of incentives to …
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México
Although scholars often portray Mexico as caught in the “middle-income trap,” this description obscures important subnational variation in patterns of economic development. We leverage this variation by examining the case of Querétaro, a state with high levels of structural transformation and economic growth since the 1980s. We reconstruct the historical trajectory of its two leading industries, automotive and aerospace. We observe that while bot…
Appetite for Reform
Although much industrial policy research addresses the “supply side’ task of discerning superior policies, it pays less attention to ‘demand side’ questions of when and to what extent countries adopt reforms. And while exogenous shocks serve as the impetus for new industrial policy adoption across a broad array of empirical case studies, less is known about when such shocks register as salient enough to elicit policy shifts. This paper considers …
Redirecting Leviathan
How do local authorities find room to manoeuvre in the implementation of immigration policies when they are deprived of formal authority? Most scholarship on this topic posits the formal devolution of implementation power as the main determinant of such variation. This paper presents a comparative case analysis that illustrates the possibility of local reinterpretation and redirection of national-level policy even in circumstances where local act…
Dissolving “Wicked” Problems
A central contribution of institutionalist approaches to planning has been to illustrate how planners’ constraints can also present opportunities for creative action. Through an ethnographic case analysis of a successful land title regularization project on the South Texas-Mexico border, this paper identifies two critical factors not reducible to institutional features: groups’ perceptions of shared needs (vulnerabilities) and the range of action…
Cashable Value
Today’s climate of heightened border security has intensified a key challenge found on border regions: coordination across institutional regimes. For 30 years or more a popular concept for explaining groups’ abilities to handle such challenges has been social capital and its variants, such as collective efficacy. While in many respects useful, these concepts are hindered in their explanatory power due to the lack of precision in their definition …
Spurred to Upgrade
From experience to experiment
How do actors in developing regions acquire ownership over processes of knowledge formation? This question was central to the work of Alice Amsden and is pursued in this article by means of a distinction she introduced between an “experience” and an “experiment.” Through the analysis of a surprising divergence in learning processes and growth outcomes in two pairs of US–Mexico border cities, this article identifies and considers the implications …
Self-discovery in the dark
Under what conditions do businesses choose to reconsider their immediate, short-term competitive niches and engage in long-term, systematic thinking by searching for new business models? This crucial question is left aside by the contemporary literature on industrial policy insofar as it assumes that the primary barrier to industrial upgrading and learning is on the ‘supply side’ of states facilitating private firms' pursuit of their already-esta…
Local Means in Value Chain Ends
Bringing the firm back in
Local Means in Value Chain Ends
Bringing the firm back in
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México
Although scholars often portray Mexico as caught in the “middle-income trap,” this description obscures important subnational variation in patterns of economic development. We leverage this variation by examining the case of Querétaro, a state with high levels of structural transformation and economic growth since the 1980s. We reconstruct the historical trajectory of its two leading industries, automotive and aerospace. We observe that while bot…
Dissolving “Wicked” Problems
A central contribution of institutionalist approaches to planning has been to illustrate how planners’ constraints can also present opportunities for creative action. Through an ethnographic case analysis of a successful land title regularization project on the South Texas-Mexico border, this paper identifies two critical factors not reducible to institutional features: groups’ perceptions of shared needs (vulnerabilities) and the range of action…
From experience to experiment
How do actors in developing regions acquire ownership over processes of knowledge formation? This question was central to the work of Alice Amsden and is pursued in this article by means of a distinction she introduced between an “experience” and an “experiment.” Through the analysis of a surprising divergence in learning processes and growth outcomes in two pairs of US–Mexico border cities, this article identifies and considers the implications …
Self-discovery in the dark
Under what conditions do businesses choose to reconsider their immediate, short-term competitive niches and engage in long-term, systematic thinking by searching for new business models? This crucial question is left aside by the contemporary literature on industrial policy insofar as it assumes that the primary barrier to industrial upgrading and learning is on the ‘supply side’ of states facilitating private firms' pursuit of their already-esta…
Bringing the firm back in
Local Means in Value Chain Ends
Self-discovery in the dark
Under what conditions do businesses choose to reconsider their immediate, short-term competitive niches and engage in long-term, systematic thinking by searching for new business models? This crucial question is left aside by the contemporary literature on industrial policy insofar as it assumes that the primary barrier to industrial upgrading and learning is on the ‘supply side’ of states facilitating private firms' pursuit of their already-esta…
From experience to experiment
How do actors in developing regions acquire ownership over processes of knowledge formation? This question was central to the work of Alice Amsden and is pursued in this article by means of a distinction she introduced between an “experience” and an “experiment.” Through the analysis of a surprising divergence in learning processes and growth outcomes in two pairs of US–Mexico border cities, this article identifies and considers the implications …
Spurred to Upgrade
Cashable Value
Today’s climate of heightened border security has intensified a key challenge found on border regions: coordination across institutional regimes. For 30 years or more a popular concept for explaining groups’ abilities to handle such challenges has been social capital and its variants, such as collective efficacy. While in many respects useful, these concepts are hindered in their explanatory power due to the lack of precision in their definition …
Dissolving “Wicked” Problems
A central contribution of institutionalist approaches to planning has been to illustrate how planners’ constraints can also present opportunities for creative action. Through an ethnographic case analysis of a successful land title regularization project on the South Texas-Mexico border, this paper identifies two critical factors not reducible to institutional features: groups’ perceptions of shared needs (vulnerabilities) and the range of action…
Appetite for Reform
Although much industrial policy research addresses the “supply side’ task of discerning superior policies, it pays less attention to ‘demand side’ questions of when and to what extent countries adopt reforms. And while exogenous shocks serve as the impetus for new industrial policy adoption across a broad array of empirical case studies, less is known about when such shocks register as salient enough to elicit policy shifts. This paper considers …
Redirecting Leviathan
How do local authorities find room to manoeuvre in the implementation of immigration policies when they are deprived of formal authority? Most scholarship on this topic posits the formal devolution of implementation power as the main determinant of such variation. This paper presents a comparative case analysis that illustrates the possibility of local reinterpretation and redirection of national-level policy even in circumstances where local act…
Can Partial Growth Coalitions Build Pathways Out of the Middle-Income Trap? The Case of Querétaro, México
Although scholars often portray Mexico as caught in the “middle-income trap,” this description obscures important subnational variation in patterns of economic development. We leverage this variation by examining the case of Querétaro, a state with high levels of structural transformation and economic growth since the 1980s. We reconstruct the historical trajectory of its two leading industries, automotive and aerospace. We observe that while bot…
Do Local Governments Listen to the Experts? A Comprehensive Qualitative Analysis of Local Economic Development Policies
Research on local economic development (LED) policy remains limited in its access to detailed information about what policies are practiced where. This study helps to fill important gaps with a unique data set of 106 localities’ responses to Amazon.com's 2017 “HQ2” RFP. These data are analyzed qualitatively to assess patterns in policy practice and their relationship to local characteristics. Highlighting the balance between use of incentives to …
Discipline to flourish
Economics (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global trade and economics (3 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works)