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Robert J. Bennett Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge Complete Publications List: 1. Books (authored and edited) 1978 (R.J. Bennett and R.J. Chorley) Environmental Systems: philosophy, analysis and control,

(Methuen, London), 624pp. (eds. R.L. Martin, N. Thrift and R.J. Bennett) Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Systems, (Pion, London),

210pp. 1979 Spatial Time Series: analysis, forecasting and control (Pion, London), 674pp. 1980 The Geography of Public Finance: welfare under fiscal federalism and local government finance,

(Methuen, London), 498pp. 1981 (eds. N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett) Quantitative Geography in Britain: retrospect and prospect,

(RKP, London), 419pp. (ed.) European Quantitative and Theoretical Geography: a symposium, (Pion, London), 305pp. 1982 Central Grants to Local Governments: the political and economic impacts of the Rate Support

Grant, (Cambridge University Press), 351pp. 1984 (K.C. Tan and R.J. Bennett), Optimal Control of Spatial Systems, (Allen and Unwin, London),

178pp. 1985 Intergovernmental Financial Relations in Austria, (ANU Press, Canberra), 90pp. (A.G. Wilson and R.J. Bennett), Mathematical and Statistical Theory in Human Geography and

Planning, (J. Wiley Guidebooks in Applicable Mathematics, Chichester), 411pp. 1986 (eds. R.J. Bennett and H. Zimmermann) Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany: Conference

Report, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 186pp. 1988 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany, (Nomos, Baden-Baden),

344pp. 1989 (ed.) Territory and Administration in Europe, (Frances Pinter, London), 316pp. 1990 (ed.) Decentralisation, Local Governments and Markets: towards a post-welfare agenda,

(Clarendon Press, Oxford), 412pp. (eds. R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann) Local Economic Development in Britain and

Germany, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 174pp. 1991 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Local Economic Development: public-private partnership initiatives in

Britain and Germany, (Belhaven Press, London), 200pp. (eds. R.J. Bennett and R.C. Estall) Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s,

(Routledge, London), 264pp.

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1993 (R.J. Bennett and A. McCoshan) Enterprise and Human Resource Development: local capacity

building, (Paul Chapman, London), 336pp. (eds. R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann) Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Germany

and the Impact of the Single European Market, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), 200pp.

(ed.) Local Government in the New Europe, (Belhaven Press, London), 309pp. 1994 (R.J. Bennett, P.J. Wicks and A. McCoshan) Local Empowerment and Business Services: Britain’s

experiment with Training and Enterprise Councils, (UCL Press, London), 349pp. (ed.) Local Government and Market Decentralisation: experiences in industrialised, developing

and former eastern bloc countries, (United Nations University Press, Tokyo), 506pp. 1997 (ed.) Trade Associations in Britain and Germany: responding to internationalisation and the EU.

(Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn) 118pp. 2000 (R.J. Bennett and D.A. Payne) Local and Regional Economic Development: renegotiating power

under Labour (Ashgate, Aldershot) 291 pp. 2010 The Voice of Liverpool Business: The First Chamber of Commerce and the Atlantic Economy, 1774-

c. 1796, (Liverpool Chamber of Commerce) 172 pp. 2011 Local Business Voice: The History of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland and Revolutionary

America, 1760-2011 (Oxford University Press) 926pp. 2012 (ed.) Environment and Planning: Volume C: Government and Policy, Collected edition of most

significant papers, with introduction (Sage, London) 540pp.

(eds. S. Elden, N. Thrift, T.J. Barnes, J. Peck, M. Batty, P. A. Longley, R. J. Bennett) Environment and Planning: Volume E: Foundations, Collected edition of most significant papers, with introduction (Sage, London) 539pp.

2014 Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy: Evolution and Revolution (Routledge Masters

in Entrepreneurship, London) 175pp. 2016 The Documents of Early Chambers of Commerce 1760-1840 (British Academy, Records of

Economic and Social History; Oxford University Press) c. 700pp. 2. Papers in refereed journals, book chapters, other papers 1974 Process identification for time series modelling in urban and regional planning, Regional Studies,

8, 157-174. Identification of the minimal representation of linear distribution parameter systems, in R.E.

Goodson and M. Polis (eds.), Identification of Parameters in Distributed Systems, (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York), 91-97.

Warrington: problems for the future? North West Industrial Review, 7, 1, p.12.

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1975 The representation and identification of spatio-temporal systems: an example of population and diffusion in North West England, Trans Inst British Geog, 66, 73-94.

Discussion of the paper by A.D. Cliff and K. Ord, J. Royal Statistical Society Series B, 37, 340-341. (R.J. Bennett, W.J. Campbell and R.A. Maughan), Changes in atmospheric pollution

concentrations, in C.A. Brebbia (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Models for Environmental Problems, (Pentach Press, London), 221-235.

Dynamic systems modelling of the North West region: 1. Spatio-temporal representation and

identification, Environment and Planning A, 7, 525-38. Dynamic systems modelling of the North West region: 2. Estimation of the spatio-temporal policy

model, Environment and Planning A, 7, 539-66. Dynamic systems modelling of the North West region: 3. Adaptive-parameter policy model,

Environment and Planning A, 7, 617-36. Dynamic systems modelling of the North West region: 4. Adaptive spatio-temporal forecasts,

Environment and Planning A, 7, 887-898. 1976 (N. Thrift, N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett), Dynamic models and spatial representation in geography

and regional science: quiet disquiet, Area, 243-5. Non-stationary parameter estimation for small sample situations: a comparison of methods,

International Journal of Systems Science, 7, 257-275. Adaptive adjustment of channel geometry, Earth Surface Process, 1, pp.131-150. Patterns and processes in the plane. Conference Report by Applied Stochastic Processes Study

Group, Advances in Applied Probability, 8, 651-8. 1977 Consistent estimation of non-stationary parameters for small sample situations - a Monte Carlo

study, International Economic Review, 18, 489-502. 1978 Discussion of the paper by J.C. Tanner: Long-term forecasting of vehicle ownership and road

traffic, J. Royal Statistical Society A, 140, 47-8. Forecasting in urban and regional planning closed loops: the examples of road and air traffic

forecasts: Environment and Planning A, 10, 145-162. Regional monitoring in the UK: imperatives and implications for research, Regional Studies, 12,

311-321. Adaptive parameter space-time models: an entropy-maximising application using the Kalman

filter with unknown prior parameters, in R.L. Martin, N. Thrift and R.J. Bennett (eds.), Dynamic Analysis of Spatial Systems, (Pion, London), pp. 159-171.

Optimal control models of regional economies, Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on UNRENAP,

Kyoto, (Pergamon, Oxford), pp.133-138. Space-time models and urban geographical research, in R.J. Johnston and D.T. Herbert (eds.),

Geography and the Urban Environment, Vol.2, (Wiley, Chichester), pp.27-48.

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Teaching mathematics in geography degrees, J. Geography in Higher Education, 2, 38-46. 1979 Statistical problems in forecasting long-term climatic change, in N. Wrigley (ed.), Statistical

Applications in the Spatial Sciences, (Pion, London), pp.242-256. (R.J. Bennett and K.C. Tan), Stochastic control of regional economies, in C.A.P. Bartels and R.H.

Ketellaper, Exploratory and Explanatory Analysis of Spatial Data, (Nijhoff, Leiden), pp.245-268. Allocation of the UK Rate Support Grant by use of the methods of optimal control, Environment

and Planning A, 11, 1011-1027. 1980 (R.J. Bennett, R.P. Haining and J. Thornes), Dynamic spatial models, Area, 12, 284-6. 1981 Space-time models of financial resource allocation, in R.D. Mackinnon and D. Griffith (eds.),

Proceedings of NATO ASI on Dynamic Spatial Models, (Sijthoff and Noordhoff, Leiden), pp.367-88. Spatial time series, in N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett (eds.), Quantitative Geography in Britain:

retrospect and prospect, (RKP, London), pp.97-103. Quantitative geography and public policy, in N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett (eds.), Quantitative

Geography in Britain: retrospect and prospect, (RKP, London), pp.387-396. Statistical Forecasting, CATMOG 28, (Geobooks, Norwich), 60pp. (R.J. Chorley and R.J. Bennett), Control theory, in N. Wrigley and R.J. Bennett (eds.), Quantitative

Geography in Britain: retrospect and prospect, (RKP, London), pp.219-224. The Rate Support Grant in England and Wales 1967/8 - 1980/1: changing emphases and

objectives, in R.J. Johnston and D. Herbert (eds.), Geography and the Urban Environment, Vol.4, (Wiley, London), 50pp.

The costs of government, Geographical Magazine, 53, 658-662. The local income tax in Britain: a critique of recent arguments against its use, Public

Administration, 59, 295-312. A hierarchical control solution to allocation of the British Rate Support Grant, Geographical

Analysis, 13, 300-314. Dynamic modelling and control in urban and regional planning, in D. Dendrinos (ed.), Nonlinear

Modelling in Urban Planning, (Department of Transportation, Washington DC). (editor), Special issue of Environment and Planning A, 13.12, (papers of second European

Colloquium on Quantitative and Theoretical Geography). 1982 A hierarchical solution to allocation of the rate support grant using representative needs as

targets, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 7, 163-186. The financial health of local authorities in England and Wales: the role of the Rate Support Grant,

Environment and Planning A, 14, 1283-1305.

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A representative index of local authority need to spend in England and Wales, Environment and Planning A, 14, 933-950.

A simultaneous equation model of local expenditure determination in England and Wales, Papers,

Regional Science Association, 50, 109-130. The financial health of local authorities in England and Wales: resource and expenditure position,

Environment and Planning A, 14, 997-1022. Geography, relevance and the role of the Institute, Area, 14, 69-71. 1983 The finance of cities in West Germany, Progress in Planning, pp.1-62. Urban public finance in Germany, in P.M. Jackson (ed.), Urban Public Finance, (Chartered Institute

of Public Finance and Accountants, London). (R.J. Bennett and J. Stewart), Client groups and local spending, Public Money, 2, 62-64. Individual and territorial equity, Geographical Analysis, 15, 50-57. Dynamic models of spatial variation in local government expenditures, in D.A. Griffith and A.C.

Lea (eds.), Evolving Geographical Structures, Proceedings of NATO ASI, (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague), pp.400-412.

(D.A. Griffith, R.P. Haining and R.J. Bennett), Simulating two-dimensional autocorrelated surfaces,

Geographical Analysis, 15, 247-255. Alternative local taxes in Britain, Regional Studies, 17, 478-481. A model of local authority fiscal behaviour: a comment, Public Finance, 38, 322-325. (R.J. Bennett and J. Stewart), The changing needs of local authorities, 1974/5 - 1980/1, Local

Government Studies, 9, 6-15. (L. Grimond, B. Keith-Lucas, P. Truscott and R.J. Bennett), Local government finance in Britain: a

Liberal Party view of possible reforms, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1, 357-370.

1984 (R.J. Bennett, R.P. Haining and D.A. Griffith), The problem of missing data on spatial surfaces,

Annals Association of American Geographers, 74, 138-156. (R.P. Haining, D.A. Griffith and R.J. Bennett), A statistical approach to the problem of missing

spatial data, Professional Geographer, 36, 338-345. A bureaucratic modal of local government tax and expenditure decisions, Applied Economics, 16,

257-268. (L. Martin, R.J. Bennett and D.J. Gregory), The thirsty Algarve, Geographical Magazine, 56, 321-4. Advances in the analysis of spatial time series, in G.L. Gaile and C.J. Wilmott, Spatial Statistics

and Models, (D. Reidel, Dordrecht), pp.235-252.

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System analyse und umwelt-management: entwicklung und zukunftstendenzen (Systems analysis and environmental management), in K. Stiglbauer (ed.) Festschift, Prof. Dr. Hans Bobek, Mitteilungen des Osterreichische Geographische Gesellschaft, Wien Band 126, pp.29-49.

Geography and Public Administration, (International Institute of Administration Science,

Brussels), 27pp. The geography of public finance, in J.R. Short and A. Kirby (eds.), The Human Geography of

Contemporary Britain, (Macmillan, London), pp.64-81. 1985 (R.J. Bennett and R.P. Haining), Spatial structure and spatial interaction: modelling approaches to

the statistical analysis of geographical data, Journal Royal Statistical Society A, 148, 1-36. (R.J. Bennett, R.P. Haining and A.G. Wilson), Spatial structure and spatial interaction: problem of

building theories in Human Geography, Environment and Planning A, 17, 625-645. Public finance and spatial policy, in J.H. Johnson (ed.), Geography Applied to Practical Problems,

(Geobooks, Norwich), pp.69-78. Central city - city region fiscal disparities in Austria: estimates for 1979, Urban Studies, 22, 69-81. (D.A. Griffith, R.P. Haining and R.J. Bennett), Estimating missing values in space-time data series,

in O.D. Anderson, J.K. Ord and E.A. Robinson (eds.), Time Series Analysis: theory and practice, 6, (North-Holland, Amsterdam), 273-282.

A reappraisal of the role of spatial science and statistical inference in geography in Britain,

L'Espace Geographique, 3-28. The impact on city finance of false registration in second homes: the case of the 1981 Austrian

Census, Tidschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 76, 298-309. 1986 (R.J. Bennett and L. Hordijk), Regional economics and dynamic models, in P. Nijkamp and E. Mills

(eds.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, (North Holland, Amsterdam), pp.407-441. Quantification and relevance, in R.J. Johnston (ed.), The Future of Geography, (Methuen,

London), pp.211-224. The impact of non-domestic rates on profitability and investment, Fiscal Studies, 7, 34-50. Tax assignment in federal and decentralised systems of government: beyond conventional

economic theory, in J. Ruiz-Huerta Carbonell (ed.), Federal State or Regional State: a new model of finance of local, (Salamanca).

Social and economic transition: a case study in Portugal's western Algarve, Journal of Rural

Studies, 2, 91-102. Public finance, public administration and spatial policy: recent developments in urban systems

and policy responses in the USA, UK, and FRG, Political Geography Quarterly, 5, S119-S133. Local business taxes and reform proposals in Britain and Germany, in R.J. Bennett and H.

Zimmermann (eds.), Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany: Conference Report, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), pp.21-53.

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Non-linear representation of the profit impacts of local government tax and expenditure decisions, in D.A. Griffith and R.P. Haining (eds.), Transformations Through Space and Time, NATO ASI, (Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht), pp.152-164.

(R.J. Bennett and H. Zimmermann), Discussion, in Local Business Taxes in Britain and Germany:

Conference Report, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn), pp.165-182. Financial contrasts in growing and declining cities in West Germany, in G. Bahrenberg and M.M.

Fischer (eds.), Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, (Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumsplanung, Heft 8), pp.340-9.

1987 Recent developments in fiscal structures of cities and city regions, Dokumente und Informationen

zur Schweizerischen Orts-, Regional-und Landesplanning, (DISP, Zurich), No.88, April, pp.10-19. Local business taxes in Britain and Germany: assessment of comparative burdens 1960-84 by use

of the 'costs of capital' methodology, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 5, 25-41.

Tax assignment in multilevel systems of government: a political economic approach and the case

of Spain, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 5, 267-286. Local Income Tax in Britain: a reappraisal of theory and practice, (Association of Metropolitan

Authorities, London), 44pp. Time to look again at local income tax?, Municipal Journal, 15 May, 917-8. Local business taxes: theory and practice, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 3, pp.60-80.

Also translated in Spanish as “Impuestos municipales sobre empresas: teora y práctica”, pp. 41-67 in El Debate Sobre Imposicin Local: el caso de Gran Breta, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1994.

Non-domestic rates and local taxation of business, in S. Bailey and R. Paddison (eds.), Reform of

Local Government Finance in Britain, (Croom Helm, London). A general accounting model of intergovernmental tax and benefit effects on the business,

Environment and Planning A, 19, 1495-1510. (R.J. Bennett and M. Fernehough), The burden of non-domestic rates on business, Local

Government Studies, November/December, 23-26. (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Die Wirkung Kommunaler Steuern auf die Steuerliche Belastung der

Kapitalbildung, Studien zur Finanz-politik, IFO-Institut fur Wirtschaft-forschung eV, Munich, No.44, pp.1-72.

Public finance and location: recent policy research on local business taxation, in H-W. Wirdhorst

(ed.), The Role of Geography in Post-Industrial Society, Vechtaer arbeiter zur Geographie und Regionalwissenschaft, Band 5, pp.71-82.

Methods of analysing spatial dynamic systems, in G. Bahrenberg et al. (eds.), Geographie des

Menschen Dietrich Bartels zum Gedenben, (Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumplanung, Heft 11), pp.343-352.

(ed.) Special issue of Government and Policy: Environment and Planning C, 5.1, (papers on local

business taxes).

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1988 (ed.) Local fiscal crisis: the policy imperatives, Regional Studies, 22, Policy Review Section,

(containing papers by T. Travers, P. Derrick, C. Nicholson, C.D. Foster), 1-18. Local government finance: the inevitable day of reckoning, Regional Studies, 22, 1-3. Rate Support Grant and local authority financial resources 1974/75 - 1980/81: DOE source

material, (Database deposit and report, ESRC Data Archive, Essex). (R.J. Bennett and J.B. Thornes), Geography in the United Kingdom 1984-1988, Geographical

Journal, 154, 23-48. (R.J. Bennett, R. Boyle, M. Keating and J. Sellgren), Administrative agencies for managing

adaptation to changes in economic structure in the UK, in G. Marcou (ed.), Regional Planning and Local Government Confronted with Economic Change, (Brussels, International Institute of Administrative Sciences), pp.121-152.

Decentralisation: a public goods theoretical perspective of the role of local government services

to business, in F.J. Kjellberg (ed.), Local Finances in the Contemporary State: theory and practice, (Norwegian Research Council for Applied Social Science, Oslo), pp.17-61.

(ed.) Local Economic Development: identifying the research priorities ESRC, Swindon, 70pp. 1989 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Regional policy incentives and the relative costs of capital in assisted

areas in Britain and Germany, Regional Studies, 23, 201-218. Local Economy and Employment Development Strategies: an analysis for LEDA areas, Report to EC

DGV on Local Employment Development Action Programme (LRDP, London), 86pp.

Chapter 1: Territory and administration; Chapter 2: European economy, society, politics and administration; Chapter 3: Stimuli to administrative reform; Chapter 4: Assignment of competency and resources; Chapter 20: Territory and administration: towards a future research agenda, in R.J. Bennett (ed.), Territory and Administration in Europe, (Francis Pinter, London), pp.3-7, 8-32, 33-53, 54-71, 303-313.

Central and local taxes and responsibilities: the arguments for assignment and the demand for

restructuring, in Italian Ministry of the Interior (eds.), Local Public Services and the Crisis of the Welfare State, (Maggioli, Rome), pp.261-298). Also translated into Portuguese (1993) (Summus Editorial Lda, Sâo Paulo).

Demographic and budgetary influence on the geography of the poll tax: alarm or false alarm?,

Trans Inst British Geog, NS 14, 400-417. Whither Geography in a post-welfarist world?, in W. Macmillan (ed.), Remodelling Geography,

(Blackwells, Oxford), pp.273-290.

(R.J. Bennett, R.P. Haining and D.A. Griffith), Maximum likelihood estimation with missing spatial data and with an application to remotely sensed data, Communications in Statistics: theory and method, 18, pp.1875-1894.

(R.J. Bennett, R.P. Haining and D.A. Griffith), Statistical analysis of spatial data in the presence of

missing observations: a methodological guide and an application to urban census data, Environment and Planning A, 1511-1523.

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(R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and J. Sellgren), TECs and VET: The practical requirements of

organisation and geography, Regional Studies, 23, 65-69. (ed.), TECs and VET, Regional Studies, 23, Policy Review Section, (containing papers by the author,

D. Main, C. Stratton, B. Coldwell, A. Bartlett and J. Cleverdon), 65-81. (R.J. Bennett and J. Sellgren), Azione imprenditoriale collettiva e ruolo del governo locale nello

sviluppo economico (local economic development and business collective action), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 1, 88-110.

Resources and finance for the city, Chapter 6, in D. Herbert and D.M. Smith, Social Problems and

the City, (Oxford University Press), 100-125. Non-domestic rates and local taxation of business, in S.J. Bailey and R. Paddison (eds.), The

Reform of Local Government Finance in Britain, (Routledge), pp.150-171. (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Local Economic Initiatives in Germany, (Research Papers, Department

of Geography, London School of Economics), 40pp. (R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and J. Sellgren), TECs and VET: the practical requirements:

organisation, geography and international comparison with the USA and Germany, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 59pp.

(R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and J. Sellgren), Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) and

Vocational Education and Training (VET): conference papers on practical requirements, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 57pp.

(R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and J. Sellgren), The Organisation of Business-Education Links: further

findings from the CBI schools questionnaire, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 26pp.

1990 Chapter 1: Decentralisation, local governments and markets, and Chapter 16: Decentralisation

and local economic development, in R.J. Bennett (ed.), Decentralisation, Local Governments and Markets: towards a post-welfare agenda, (Clarendon Press, Oxford), pp.1-26, 221-224.

The incentives to capital in the UK enterprise zones, Applied Economics, 22, 387-402. The impact of VAT on construction of commercial property, Property Management, 8, 205-211. Synthese des études sur les 24 villes: pilotes de la CEE; la position de Liège pour rapport a cette

étude et aux modeles theoriques qui s'en degagent, in SOCRAN/LEDA (eds.), Economie et Emploi: perspectives pour Liège, pp.33-36.

Lo sviluppo economico locale: teoria e pratica nel caso della Gran Bretagna (local economic

development: theory and practice in the case of Britain), in E.S. Lodovici and G.M. Bernareggi (eds.) Publico e Privato: cooperazione finanziaria ed organizzativa fra privati ed enti locali nelle aree urbane, (Franco Angeli, Milano).

(R.J. Bennett and J. Sellgren), Ownership and economic development: the partnership of business

and local government, in G. Jenkins and M. Poole (eds.), New Forms of Ownership: management and employment, (Routledge, London), pp.27-46.

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(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs), Towards a partnership model of local economic development initiatives in Britain and Germany, in R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann (eds.) Local Economic Development in Britain and Germany, (Anglo-German Foundation, London), pp.1-40.

(R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann), The debate on local economic development

initiatives, in R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann (eds.) Local Economic Development in Britain and Germany, (Anglo-German Foundation), pp.147-172.

(R.J. Bennett and Business in the Cities), Leadership in the Community: a blueprint for business

involvement in the 1990s, (Business in the Cities, London), 32pp. (R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and P. Wicks), Partnership of Education, Business and the Community:

feasibility study, 2 volumes, (L.B. of Richmond upon Thames and London School of Economics), 49 + 62pp.

(R.J. Bennett and A. McCoshan), Education-Business Partnerships: a stocktake, (Foundation for

Education-Business Partnerships and London School of Economics), 26pp. Decentralization, local governments and markets: is there a post welfare agenda in planned and

market economies? Policy Studies Journal, 18, 683-701. (R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and J. Sellgren), Local Employer Networks (LENs): their experience and

lessons for TECs, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 48pp.

Attaining Quality: the agenda for local business services in the 1990s, (Research Papers,

Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 49pp. 1991 Developing a National Chamber Network (Association of British Chambers of Commerce), 180pp. The new VAT on construction of commercial property: the fallout on urban regeneration, Fiscal

Studies, 12, 78-87. ‘Economic restructuring, urban administration and state resources allocation’, in M. Ciechocinska

(ed.) Restructuring and Spatial Strategy, pp.13-33, Conference paper 12 (Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw).

Local taxation and local economic development initiatives in Britain and Germany, chapter 18,

pp.345-357, in T. Wild and P.Jones (eds.) Deindustrialization and New Industrialization in Britain and Germany (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn).

Rethinking London Government, chapter 12, pp.207-219 in K. Hoggart and D.R. Green (eds.)

London: a new metropolitan Geography (Edward Arnold, London). National perspectives on global economic change, pp.103-117; (R.J. Bennett and R. Estall),

Introduction, pp.1-4; (R.J. Bennett and R. Estall), Case studies of economic change in advanced regions, pp.139-158; in R.J. Bennett and R.C. Estall (eds.) Global Change and Challenge, (Routledge, London).

(R.J. Bennett with X. Greffe, H. Martinos and J-P Pellegrin), Orientations for Local Employment

Development: Capacity Building. (LRDP, London and Brussels).

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(V. McDonnell-Lenoach with R.J. Bennett, X. Greffe, A. Melo and J-P Pellegrin), Orientations for Local Employment Development: Rural Areas. (LRDP, London and Brussels).

(E. Humphreys with R.J. Bennett, X. Greffe, J-P Pellegrin and H.Wollmann), Orientations for Local

Employment Development Strategies: Urban Areas. (In English, French and German). (LRDP, London and Brussels).

(V. McDonnell-Lenoach with R.J. Bennett, X. Greffe, A. Melo and J-P Pellegrin), Orientations for

Local Employment Development in Rural Areas: Good Practice in Policy Instruments. (In English and French). (LRDP, London and Brussels).

(E. Humphreys with R.J. Bennett, X. Greffe, J-P Pellegrin and H. Wollman), Orientations for Local

Employment Development in Urban Areas: Good Practice in Policy Instruments. (In English and German). (LRDP, London and Brussels).

(R.J. Bennett, P. Wicks and Urbed) West London ETEC Review (Urbed, London).

The Development of Services by Chambers of Commerce (Research Report, Department of

Geography, London School of Economics). (R.J. Bennett, A.McCoshan and P.Wicks) TECs: early experiences (Research Report, Department of

Geography, London School of Economics). (R.J. Bennett, A. McCoshan and P. Wicks) LECs: early experiences and comparisons with TECs

(Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics). A System to help Business, authored article in Financial Times, June 4, 1991. (ed. and introduction, with J. Regulski and Baroness Blatch), The Reform of Local Government in

Poland, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics), 17pp. 1992 (R.J. Bennett, H. Glennerster and D. Nevison) Investing in skill: to stay on or not to stay on?,

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 8, 2, 130-145 (as a longer version in LSE BP-STICERD Working Paper WSP/74).

(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Local government finance in Germany, Local Government Studies,

No.18 (4), pp.39-44, also in J. Gibson and R. Batley (eds.) (1993) Financing European Local Government, (Frank Cass, London).

(R.J. Bennett and J. Sellgren) Business collective action and the role of local government in

economic development, pp.158-180 in D. King (ed.) Local Government Economics in Theory and Practice, (Routledge, London).

The government of large cities: the case of London since 1986, pp.91-100 in P. Dostál, M. Illner, J.

Kara and M. Barlow (eds.), Changing Territorial Administration in Czechoslovakia, (University of Amsterdam and Charles University, Prague).

European administrative reforms: dimensions for analysis of diversity, pp.139-148 in P. Dostál, M.

Illner, J. Kara and M. Barlow (eds.), Changing Territorial Administration in Czechoslovakia, (University of Amsterdam and Charles University, Prague).

(P. Wicks, R.J. Bennett and A. McCoshan) Scotland’s Local Enterprise Companies (LECs): an

assessment, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

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(R.J. Bennett, P. Wicks and A. McCoshan) TECs and LECs: early development: the priorities of

Training and Enterprise Councils and Local Enterprise Companies shown in surveys 1990-1992, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

(R.J. Bennett, H. Glennerster and D. Nevison) Investing in Skill: expected returns to vocational

studies (BP-STICERD Welfare State Programme Working Paper WSP/83), 26pp. (R.J. Bennett, H. Glennerster and D. Nevison) Learning Should Pay, (BP Educational Services,

London), 20pp. Education-Business Partnerships: the learning so far, (Confederation of British Industry, London),

19pp. Kent Chamber of Commerce Development Study, (A Report to the DTI, Kent TEC, Kent County

Council and Kent Federation of Chambers of Commerce), 136pp. (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Industry Policy, Small Firms and Local Economic Development in

Germany, (Centre Studi e Documentazione Internazionali, Torino), 32pp. 1993 (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) The demographic component of local government finance: impacts on

resources, needs and budgets, pp.50-63 in Tony Champion (ed.) Population Matters: the local dimension, (Paul Chapman, London).

Local government in Europe: common directions of change: chapter 1, pp.1-27; European local

government systems: chapter 2, pp.28-50, in R.J. Bennett (ed.) Local Government in the New Europe, (Belhaven Press, London).

(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Germany: the challenges of the

single market: chapter 1, pp.1-38; Business needs and Britain’s One Stop Shops: chapter 15, pp.145-170; (with H. Zimmermann) Chamber futures: the outcome of discussion: chapter 17, pp.175-196; in R.J. Bennett, G. Krebs and H. Zimmermann (eds.) Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Germany and the Single European Market, (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn).

(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) LEDA Economic Development Strategies: new experiences, (EC DGV

and LRDP, London). London Chambers of Commerce Development Study, (London School of Economics for Chambers

of London, Westminster and Croydon), xv + 68pp. London TECs: a programme for working together, (Report to London Strategy Group and the 9

London TEC Chairs); also in shortened version as Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics.

(R. J. Bennett and P. Wicks) Potential Development of Chamber of Commerce Business Services: a

survey, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

(G. Krebs and R.J. Bennett) Organisationsstruktur und Dienstleistungsangebot der Industrie- und Handelskammern in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: ergebnisse einer umfrage im Jahre 1992 (Chambers of Commerce in Germany: survey of organisation and services in 1992), (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

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(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Chambers of Commerce in Britain: survey of organisation and services (Organisationsstrukur und Dienstleistungsangebot der Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Grossbritannien Ergebnisse einer Umfrage), (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

(R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Costs and Organisation of Chamber of Commerce Business Services: a

detailed accounting study, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

(ed.) Investing in Skills: responses to “Learning Should Pay” and “Paying for Learning”, (Discussion

Paper WSP/96, STICERD, London School of Economics). Jak bylo, je, ale hlavne jak bude! (What was, is, and mainly what will be), Geografické Rozhledg, 2

(1), p.2. One-Stop Shops - the latest initiative, Home Run, 1 (5), April 1993, p.24. TECs go a long way - but not far enough, The Times, 17 June 1993, p.16. 1994 Developments in decentralisation: chapter 1, pp.1-10; An overview of developments in

decentralisation: chapter 2, pp.11-40; in R.J. Bennett (ed.) Local Government and Market Decentralisation: experiences in industrialised, developing and former eastern bloc countries, (United Nations University Press, Tokyo).

Training and Enterprise Councils: are they cost efficient? Policy Studies, 15, 1, 42-58. (R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs) Local economic development partnerships: an analysis of policy

networks in EC-LEDA local employment development strategies, Regional Studies, 28, 119-140. (R.J. Bennett and R. Pinto) The hiring function in local labour markets in Britain, Environment and

Planning A, 26, 1957-1974. New training institutions at local level, pp.173-195 in R. Layard, D. Mayhew and G. Owen (eds.)

Britain’s Training Deficit, Avebury. La reorganisation des collectivités locales en Grande Bretagne depuis 1993: ver des councils

unitaires (The reorganisation of local government in Britain since 1993: towards unitary councils), pp.211-230 in M.C. Maurel (ed.) Bulletin de la Société Languedocienne de Géographie, 1-2, 209-228.

Local and regional development policy in the UK, pp.114-145 in G. Marcou and H. Siedentopf

(eds.) Institutional Conditions of an European Regional Development Policy, DATAR, Paris, and Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, Hannover. Also translated in Spanish as La politica de desarrollo local y regional en el Renio Unido, Monografiás de la Revista Aragonesa de Administracion Pública, 1, 1994, pp.161-198.

The way forward for TECs, Training Tomorrow, March, pp.5-6. (R.J. Bennett and CBI) Creating a Learning Community, CBI, London. CBI Survey of School-Business Links: Business Survey: technical report, (Research Papers,

Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

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CBI Survey of School-Business Links: survey of TECs, LECs and local link managers, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics).

Enterprise Agencies: a survey of organisation and services, (Research Papers, Department of

Geography, London School of Economics). (G. Krebs and R.J. Bennett) Costs and Organisation of Service Provision in German Chambers of

Commerce, (Research Papers, Department of Geography, London School of Economics). 1995 The refocusing of small business services in enterprise agencies: the influence of TECs and LECs,

International Journal of Small Business, 13, 4, 35-55. (R.J. Bennett, H. Glennerster and D. Nevison) Regional rates of return to education and training in

Britain, Regional Studies, 29, 3, 47-63. PICs, TECs and LECs: lessons to be learnt from the differences between USA Private Industry

Councils and Britain’s Training and Enterprise Councils, British Journal of Education and Work, 7, 3, 63-83.

School-business links: clarifying objectives, Policy Studies, 16, 1, 23-48. (R.J. Bennett, H. Glennerster and D. Nevison) Investing in skill: expected returns to vocational

studies, Education Economics, 3, 2, 99-118. (as foreign expert; joint preparation with RECLUS) Perspectives de l’Espace Européen: Rapport

No.1, Group d’Interêt Public RECLUS: Réseau d’Etudes des Changements dans les Localisations et les Unités Spatiales, Montpelier, (DATAR, Paris), 55pp.

Engaging the business community through new style Chambers: meeting business needs in

Britain, (Association of British Chambers of Commerce, London), 47pp. Training and Enterprise Councils, written and oral evidence to House of Commons Employment

Committee, HMSO, London. The Operation of the Enterprise Agencies and the LECs, First Report of the Scottish Affairs

Committee, written evidence, oral evidence and adviser, HC 339, Session 1994-95 HMSO, London. 1996

“The logic of local business associations: an analysis of voluntary Chambers of Commerce, Journal of Public Policy, 15, 3, 251-279.

Can transaction cost economics explain voluntary Chambers of Commerce? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 152, 4, 654-680.

Viewpoint, “Business Links” Natwest in Business, Autumn, 1996, p. 3. (reprinted in Institute of

Business Counsellors Journal). Local Public Spending Bodies - The TECs and LECs, written and oral evidence (given 28/11/95) in

Evidence volume of Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee), Report on Local Public Spending Bodies, Cm 3270-II, pp. 117-121; 135-139. (HMSO, London).

Business Links, written and oral evidence to House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee,

HC302-II, Session 1995-6, Fifth Report “Business Links”, HMSO, London, pp. 80-85. 1997

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Chapter 1, Trade Associations: new challenges, new logic? pp, 1-11, Chapter 2, Trade Associations: Britain and Germany compared, pp. 12-22, in R. J. Bennett, (editor) Trade Associations in Britain and Germany: responding to internationalisation and the EU. (Anglo-German Foundation, London and Bonn) 118pp.

The relations between government and business associations in Britain: An evaluation of recent

developments, Policy Studies, 18, 1, 5-33.

The impact of European Economic integration on business associations: The UK case, West European Politics 20, 3, 61-90. (larger version published in Cambridge ESRC Centre for Business Research WP61).

Administrative systems and economic spaces, Regional Studies 31, 3, 323-336.

Improving the economic and social environment for startups and SMEs: the case of Britain, pp. 9-52, in B. Lageman, H. Voelzkow and B von Rosenbladt (eds.) Möglichkeiten zur Yerbesserung des wirtschafts - und gesellschaftspolitischen Umfeldes für Existenzgründer und kleine und mittlere Unternehmen - Wege zu einer neuen Kultur der Selbständigkeit, (Max-Planck - Institut für Gesellschaftsforchung, Köln).

Local Government in Post-Socialist cities, Discussion Paper No. 2, Local Government and Public Services reform initiative (LGI) (Open Society Institute, and the Central European University, Budapest), 42 pp.

SMEs, Business associations and their potential contribution to business competitiveness, Generating Growth, Conference Proceedings of 20th International Small Business Affairs Conference (University of Ulster Business School, Belfast), vol. 1, pp. 61 -90.

Open systems - closed systems: a Portuguese vignette, in D.R. Stoddart (ed.) Process and Form in Geomorphology (festschrift for Richard Chorley), Routledge, London, pp. 293-311.

TECs under scrutiny, Personnel Management 3 (18), 11 September 1997, p. 23.

Nordwijk Report “European Spatial Development Perspective: A British View”, EUREG, European Journal of Regional Development, 6, 22-24.

1998 Explaining the membership of voluntary local business associations: the example of British Chambers of Commerce. Regional Studies, 32, 6, 503-514. Business Associations and Economic Development: re-exploring an interface between the state and market, Environment and Planning A. 30, 1367-1387. (R.J. Bennett and D.A. Graham) Explaining the size differentiation of business service centres, Urban Studies, 35, 9, 1457-1480. Business Associations and their potential contribution to SMEs competitiveness, Enterpreneurship and Regional Development. 10, 243-260. The relationship between TECs and (the proposed Regional Development Agencies) contributions to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment, 4th Report Session 1997-98, HC-265 (HMSO, London), written memorandum (Memoranda, pp. 45-50), Oral Evidence (pp. 13-17), and adviser to whole report.

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The Development of local government in Post-Socialist Countries: experiences and challenges, Chapter 5, pp. 37-54 in World Bank Report, Political and Fiscal Decentralisation Reforms in the Baltic Sea States (World Bank, Washington D.C.) Local Government in post-socialist cities, Chapter 2, pp. 35-54, in G. Enyedi (ed.) Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe, Central European University, Budapest. (R.J. Bennett and P. Robson) External Business advice and Business Links, Chapter 6, pp. 56-66, in A. Cosh and A. Hughes (eds.), Enterprise Britain: Growth, Innovation and Public Policy in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Sector 1994-97, ESRC Centre for Business Research, Cambridge.

1999 (with D.J. Graham and W. Bratton) The Location and Concentration of Businesses in Britain: Business Clusters, Business Services, Market Coverage and Local Economic Development, in Transaction Institute of British Geographers, 24, 293-420.

(with P.J.A. Robson) The use of external advice by SMEs in Britain. Entrepreneurship and

Regional Development, 11, 155, 180. Explaining the membership of sectoral business associations, Environment and Planning A, 31, 877-898.

Business routes of influence in Brussels: exploring the choice of direct representation, Political Studies, XLVII, 240-257. Business associations: their potential contribution to government policy and the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 17, 593-608. (with P.A. Robson) Intensity of interaction in supply of business advice and client impact: a comparison of consultancy, business associations and government support initiatives for SMEs, British Journal of Management, 10, 351-369. (with P.J.A. Robson) Business Link: use, satisfaction and comparison with business shop and business connect, Policy Studies, 20, 2, 107-132. (with P.J.A. Robson) Central government support to SMEs compared to business link, business connect and business shop and the prospects for the Small Business Service, Regional Studies, 33, 379-787.

(with P.J.A. Robson and W.J.A. Bratton) Business Link: the influence of BL structure and local context on use and client assessment of impact and satisfaction, 22nd ISBA National Small Firm Conference: European Strategies, Growth and Development, pp. 99-128. Territorial reform of central-regional-local government relations: the implications for power relations of regional development agencies in England, In: Öffentliche Finanzen zwischen Wachstum and Verteilung”. ed. K-D Henke, pp. 67-84, Nomos, Baden-Baden. Local Economic Development: is partnership stalling? Journal of the Institution of Economic Development, 062 3/99, 1-3. (with P.J.A. Robson) The market for external business advice services in Britain, Working Paper Series March, ESRC Centre for Business Research, WP No. 123, 32pp.

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Consultant-client relationships: results of a survey of IIB consultants. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Comments on the structure of the advice service through business link and management structures, submission to consultation on the Small Business Service. (with W.J.A. Bratton) Business clusters and business patterns should form the basis of SBS areas: A response to consultation on the DTI small business service, DfEE Learning to Succeed White Paper and DETR sub-regional structures for the Regional Development Agencies.

2000 (with P.J. Robson) The use and impact of business advice by SMEs in Britain: an empirical assessment using logit and ordered logit models, Applied Economics, 32, 1675-1688.

The logic of membership of sectoral business associations, Review of Social Economy, LVIII, 1 March 2000, 18-42.

(with W.J.A. Bratton and P.J.A. Robson) Business Advice: the influence of distance, Regional Studies, 9, 813-828.

(with P.J.A. Robson) The Small Business Service: Business support, use, fees and satisfaction, Policy Studies, 21, 3, 173-190 (Longer version also as ESRC University of Cambridge, Centre for Business Research WP181, 48pp).

(With P.J.A. Robson) External advice and business link, Chapter 8, pp. 77-86, in A. Cosh and A. Hughes (eds.) British Enterprise in Transition: Growth, innovation and public policy in the SME sector 1994-1999, ESRC University of Cambridge, Centre for Business Research. Regional and local economic development policy: the role of administration and political entrepreneurs, in G. Hovarth (ed.) Festschrift in honour of Gyorgy Enyedi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs., pp.58-81

(with P.J.A. Robson) The use of Boards of Directors, external advice, and staff skills as substitute strategies for SMEs, Proceedings of 23rd ISBA Small Firms Conference, Aberdeen, pp. 1-14

How best to achieve the vision, pp. 23-30 in PROSPER and TEC National Council: Learning and Skills Council: exploring the structure for delivery, London.

Factors influencing the effectiveness of business associations, Paper presented at EU Directorate of Research Conference Brussels, on website of conferenc (www.eg.be/eybe/site.nsf).

(with P.J.A. Robson) SME growth: the relationship with business advice and external collaboration, Small Business Economics, 15, 193-208

2001 (with P.J.A. Robson) Exploring the market potential and bundling of business association services, Journal of Services Marketing, 15, 3, 222-239.

(with P.J.A. Robson and W.J.A. Bratton) The influence of location on the use by SMEs of external advice and collaboration, Urban Studies, 38, 9, 1531-1557. (with P.J. Robson and W.J. Bratton) Government advice networks to SMEs: an assessment of the influence of local context on Business Link use, impact and satisfaction, Applied Economics, 33 871-885 (Longer version as University of Cambridge ESRC Centre for Business Research WP 182).

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Prospects for employee and vocational training from government initiatives, in A. Jolly (ed.) Skills and Training Handbook, 2nd Edition, Institute of Management, London, pp. 21-23.

2002 (with C. Fuller and M. Ramsden) The economic development role of English RDAs: The need for greater discretionary power, Regional Studies, 36, 4, 421-428. Factors affecting the effectiveness of business associations: a review, pp. 15-29 in J. Greenwood (ed.) The effectiveness of EU Business Associations, Palgrave, Basingstoke. (with Colin Smith) The influence of location and distance on the supply of business advice, Environment and Planning A, 34, 251-270. (Also in 24th ISBA National Conference, Leicester, 2001, Exploring the Frontiers of Small Business; Winner of Stan Mendham Prize for best policy paper; and Winner of ISBA Prize for best conference paper). (with Colin Smith) Competitive Conditions, competitive advantage and the location of SMEs, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 9, 1, 73-86. Employee and vocational training, in A. Jolley (Ed.) Skills and Training Handbook, 3rd Edition, Institute of Management, London, pp. 8-10. Ramsden, M., Bennett, R.J. and Fuller, C., (2002) The end of TECs: a challenge for partner and successor bodies to maintain discretionary activity, Policy Studies, 23, 3/4, 231-246.

2003 Bratton, W., Bennett, R.J. and P.J.A. Robson, Critical mass and economies of scale in the supply of services by business support organisations, Journal of Services Marketing, 17, 7, 730-752. Bennett, R.J. and Smith, C., The spatial market of business advice and consultancy to SMEs, Journal of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 27, 309-336. Fuller, C., Bennett, R.J. and Ramsden, M., Organised for inward investment? Development agencies, local government, and firms in the inward investment process, Environment and Planning A, 35, 2025-51. Bennett, R.J. and A. Wilson, Geography Applied, Chapter 13, pp. 463-501 in R.J. Johnston and M. Williams (Eds.) A Century of British Geography, British Academy, Oxford University Press. Bennett, R.J. and Robson, P.J.A. Changing use of external business advice and government support by SMEs in the 1990s, Regional Studies, 37, 795-811. Bennett, R.J, and Robson, P.J.A, Business Link: Use, Satisfaction and the Influence of Local Governance Regime, Policy Studies, 24, 163-186. Payne, D. and Bennett, R.J. Regional Development Agencies in the UK: Labour’s flagship sailing at half mast? Rationality and Society, 15 (1), 44-63. (amended version published as R. J. Bennett and D. Payne, ‘Regional Economic Development in England: the role of multilevel partnership and the new Regional Development Agencies’, pp. 107-146, in A. Deffner, D. Konstadakopulos and Y. Pscyaris, Culture and Regional Development in Europe: Cultural, Political and Social Perspectives, University of Thessaly Press, Volos). Bennett, R. J. and Robson, P.J.A. (2003) External advice and Business Link, A. Cosh and A. Hughes, (eds), Enterprise challenged: Policy and Performance in the British SME sector, 1999 - 2002, Cambridge Centre for Business Research, Chapter 5, 57-71

2004

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Territorial reform of central-regional-local government relations: The implications for Local Economic Development Agencies in England, pp. 21-36, in M. Barlow and D. Wastl-Walter (eds.) Evolution of Territory and Administration, Ashgate, Aldershot. Bennett, R.J. and P.J.A. Robson, The role of trust and contract in the supply of business advice: a comparison of private, public, business association and social network suppliers, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28, 4, 471-488 Bennett, R.J. and Robson, P.J.A., The role of boards of directors in small and medium-sized firms, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 11, 1, 95-113. Bennett, R. J. and Robson, P. J. A., Support services for SMEs: does the ‘franchisee’ make a difference to the Business Link offer? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22, 859-880.

Bennett, R.J. and C, Smith, The selection and control of management consultants by small business clients, International Small Business Journal, 22, 5, 435-462.

Fuller, C., Bennett, R.J. and Ramsden, M., Local Government and the changing institutional landscape of economic development in England and Wales, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22, 317-347.

Ramsden, M., Bennett, R.J. and Fuller C., Short-term policy and the changing institutional landscape of post-16 education and training: the case of learning partnerships in England, Scotland and Wales, Journal of Education and Work, 17, 2, 139-165.

Ramsden, M., Bennett, R.J., and Fuller, C., The Learning and Skills Council and the institutional infrastructure for post-16 education and training: An initial assessment, Journal of Education and Work, 17, 4, 397-420.

Bennett, R. J., Fuller, C. and Ramsden, M., Local Government and local economic development in Britain: and evaluation of developments under Labour, Progress in Planning, 62, 4, 1-66.

Bennett, R. J. and C. Smith, Spatial markets for consultancy to SMEs, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 95, 4, 359-374.

2005 Bennett, R. J. and P. J. A. Robson, The advisor-SME client relationship: an empirical test of a model of client impact, satisfaction and commitment, Small Business Economics, 25, 3, 255-271.

Ramsden, M. and R. J. Bennett, The benefits of external supports to SMEs: “Hard” versus “soft” outcomes and satisfaction levels, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 12, 2, 227-243.

Bennett, R. J., SME expectations from Business Link Services: How are they met? Proceedings of the 28th ISBE Conference, Blackpool. Abstract p.151; paper S: 1-14 (www.isbe.org.uk).

2006 Bennett, R.J. (2006) Government and Small Business, Chapter 4, pp. 49-75, in S. Carter and D. Jones-Evans (eds.) Enterprise and Small Business, Financial Times/Pearson Education, Harlow.

Bennett, R. J., (2006) Government SME policy since the 1990s: what have we learnt? Proceedings of the 29th ISBE Conference, Cardiff. Paper G: 1-20 (www.isbe.org.uk).

2007

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Bennett, R.J. and M. Ramsden, (2007) The contribution of business associations to SMEs: Strategy, bundling or reassurance? International Small Business Journal, 25, 1, 49-76.

Bennett, R. J. (2007) SME expectations from Business Link Services: How are they met? Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 1, 3, 435-457.

Ramsden, M. Bennett, R.J. and Fuller, C. (2007) Local economic development initiatives and the transition from Training and Enterprise Councils to new institutional structures in England, Policy Studies, 28, 3, 225-244.

Bennett, R. J. (2007) Government local and regional support for SMEs and Business Link, Chapter 7, pp. 75-88, in A. Cosh and A. Hughes (eds.), British Enterprise: thriving or surviving? Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Bennett, R. J. (2007) What SMEs want from Government: Policy changes, Chapter 8, pp. 89-93, in A. Cosh and A. Hughes (eds.) British Enterprise: thriving or surviving? Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Bennett, R. J. (2007) Joining and lapsing: what determines membership decisions of business associations? Proceedings of the 30th ISBE Conference, Glasgow. paper S: 1-16 (www.isbe.org.uk)

2008 Bennett, R. J. (2008) Government SME policy since the 1990s: what have we learnt? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 26, 375-397.

2010 Robson, P. and Bennett, R. J. (2010) Paying fees for government business advice: an assessment of the Business Link experience, Applied Economics, 42, 1, 32-48. Bennett, R. J. (2010) Malachy Postlethwayt 1707-67: The genealogy and influence of an early economist and spin doctor, The Genealogists’ Magazine, 30, 6, 187-94. Bennett, R. J. (2010) Using the relation between business associations and SMEs as a policy tool: From history to LEPs, Proceedings of the 31st ISBE Conference, Sheffield, Winner of ISBE prize for Best Policy Paper 2010 (www.isbe.org.uk)

2011 Bennett, R. J. and Robson, P. (2011) Exploring the Use of Trade and Professional Association Services, Applied Economics, 43, 13, 1595-1605.

2012 ‘Introduction: Interfacing social science and policy practice’, pp. 1-25 in Bennett, R. J. (ed.) Environment and Planning: Volume C: Government and Policy (Sage, London). (S. Elden, N. Thrift, T.J. Barnes, J. Peck, M. Batty, P. A. Longley & R. J. Bennett) ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-20 in Environment and Planning: Volume E: Foundations, (Sage, London).

Bennett, R. J. (2012) Supporting trust: Credit assessment and debt recovery through Trade Protection Societies in Britain and Ireland, 1776-1992, J. of Historical Geography, 38, 123-142.

Bennett, R. J. (2012) ‘Government and small business’, Chapter 4, pp. 49-75 in S. Carter and D. Jones-Evans (eds.) Enterprise and Small Business (FT, Prentice Hall).

Bennett, R. J. (2012) ‘Government advice services for SMEs: Some lessons from British experience’, in M. Schaper and R. Blackburn (eds.) Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development: Policy, Practice and Challenges (Gower, Aldershot).

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Bennett, R. J. (2013) Network interlocks: The connected emergence of chambers of commerce and provincial banks in the British Isles, 1767–1823, Business History, 55, 8, 1288-1317.

2014 Bennett, R. J. (2014) Alignments, Interests and Tensions over ‘Reform’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Manchester Committee of Trade, 1774-1786, Northern History, 51, 1, 61-90.

Bennett, R. J. (2014) Searching for New Models of Business Representation: The Liverpool Committee or Board of Trade, 1775-1794, Northern History, 51, 2, 263-89. Bennett, R. J. and Newton G. (2014) Identifying employers in the population census in England and Wales in 1881, Leverhulme Project, Working Paper. Bennett, R. J. (2014) A British SBA? What do other SBAs tell us about entrepreneurship and small business support successes and failures? Proceedings of the 35th ISBE Conference, Manchester, www.isbe.org.uk.