Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal
- Author(s)
- Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Lea Fünfschilling, Johan Miörner, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
This article develops a more comprehensive understanding of innovation-based renewal of industries from a structural perspective. Arguably, established perspectives offer rather simplistic views, portraying structures as either enabling or constraining for certain forms of regional industrial change. Inspired by work in organizational institutionalism on ‘institutional infrastructures’, this article focuses on the degree of elaboration and coherence as decisive features of regional structural conditions. Arguably, this conceptual lens allows for a better understanding of the potentials and limitations for industrial change entailed in different structural configurations. Empirically, we investigate renewal processes in traditional automotive regions in Austria and Sweden.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Lund University
- Journal
- Regional Studies
- Volume
- 56
- Pages
- 579-591
- No. of pages
- 13
- ISSN
- 0034-3404
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1984419
- Publication date
- 2022
- 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 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5233e48f-6305-47b1-9e23-ac43a07ecf36