Urban economic governance, business and globalisation: Australasia's 'committee-for-[city]' phenomenon

摘要: This article explores the nexus between urban economic governance, business and globalisation in light of new empirical research about emergence ‘Committee-for-[City]’1 entities Australasia2. It critically reviews key claims international literature on business-mediated governance from both structural post-structural political economy, mobilisation perspectives order to test these largely northern hemisphere-centric theories against findings as emergent policy actor Perth, Melbourne, Sydney Auckland. On basis a conceptualisation that contemporary ‘at-a-distance’ interventions are essentially discursive public–private partnerships, paper highlights important role interests context co-opting partnering state. Although it is found established notions such ‘urban growth machines’ ‘entrepreneurial governance’ (still) relevant explain nature work actors Australasia, influence globalising processes constitutive institutional socio-economic must be more thoroughly acknowledged. The hybrid governing objectives pursued multiplicity projects at mean investment outcomes resulting cannot assumed but traced evaluated careful investigations.