Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective
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In this paper, the authors focus on the multiscalarity of economic development and the role of institutions in the development of regional industrial pathways, while neglecting both the multi-dimensional and multiscale nature of the economic development process.Abstract:
Evolutionary economic geography has sought to understand the development of regional industrial pathways but tended to neglect both the multiscalarity of economic development and the role of instit...read more
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Institutions and the fortunes of territories
TL;DR: This article reviewed recent progress in our understanding of the role of institutions for development, unveils the most important gaps, and proposes a series of avenues to improve how a better understanding of how institutions shape regional and urban development can lead to more efficient development policies.
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Emerging industries: institutions, legitimacy and system-level agency
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify key characteristics of emerging industries and establish a heuristic for the conceptualization of the institutional dynamics in emerging industries, applies it to the special issue papers and outlines a future research agenda.
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Revisiting path-as-process: agency in a discontinuity-development model
TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that path development should be seen as a long-term sequence that includes episodes of path development interrupted by occasional episodes of transformation, and that these transformative episodes are driven by agency within a changing or stable structural context.
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A tale of sky and desert: Translation and imaginaries in transnational windows of institutional opportunity
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that EU alignment opens a transnational window of institutional opportunity for agents to shape regional development through the translation of institutional change both between different spatial scales and between different components of institutional contexts.
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Actors, knowledge and path transformations in a declining cluster
TL;DR: In this article , the authors contribute to the literature on cluster dynamics to show that the outcome for declining industrial clusters are not necessarily restricted to death or renewal or replacement, and highlight the types of knowledge being infused into the cluster through these activities.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the progressive development of the new institutional economics over the past quarter century, distinguishing four levels of social analysis, with special emphasis on the institutional environment and the institutions of governance.
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson +1 more
TL;DR: Acemoglu and Robinson as discussed by the authors argue that incentives and institutions are what separate the have and have-nots, and that if they work hard, they can make money and actually keep it, the key to ensuring these incentives is sound institutions.
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What is agency
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources.
TL;DR: The concept of a recognizable cycle in the evolution of tourist areas is presented in this paper, using a basic s curve to illustrate their waving and waning popularity, and specific stages in the evolutionary sequence are described, along with a range of possible future trends.