The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline
- Author(s)
- Jiří Blažek, Viktor Květoň, Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Michaela Trippl
- Abstract
Over the past few years, scholarly debates on new path development have attracted increasing attention within the economic geography literature. This work distinguishes various trajectories of regional and industrial evolution. So far, these evolutionary trajectories have been mainly conceptualized as ‘positive’ forms of path development. However, in reality, many regions are undergoing phases that can be characterized as ‘negative’ trajectories. Despite their potentially detrimental social and political effects, negative pathways have to date largely been ignored in the extant literature. This paper seeks to shed light on the ‘dark side’ of path development by outlining a typology of ‘pathways of decline’. Three forms of negative pathways are identified, namely path contraction, path downgrading and path delocalization. Empirical illustrations are provided for each of them.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Charles University Prague
- Journal
- European Planning Studies
- Volume
- 28
- Pages
- 1455-1473
- No. of pages
- 19
- ISSN
- 0965-4313
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1685466
- Publication date
- 10-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5e1bb20c-a20c-49d5-b03c-72a578b5dca7