Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective

Author(s)
Maximilian Karl Peter Benner
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 institutional change. The concept of coevolution seeks to bridge this gap but is still too vague for empirical application. Understanding the interactions between path development and institutional change in regional economies and on higher spatial scales requires retheorizing coevolution along the dimensions of institutional–industrial coevolution, path multiplicity and multiscalarity. The article proposes such a retheorized concept of coevolution by integrating concepts of path development, institutions, institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship, institutional work and nestedness.

Organisation(s)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Journal
Regional Studies
Volume
56
Pages
1524-1537
No. of pages
14
ISSN
0034-3404
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1949441
Publication date
07-2021
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
507026 Economic geography
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Environmental Science, General Social Sciences
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/0a94f14a-8a13-4d52-be55-34ce1f9e51ca