Regional industrial transformations in the interconnected global economy

Autor(en)
Päivi Oinas, Michaela Trippl, Maria Höyssä
Abstrakt

This article reviews recent research on regional transformation and observes that though it is increasingly acknowledged that regions depend on external connections, not much systematic analysis has gone to analysing regions as hosts of economic nodes that are differently positioned in global industrial systems. An outline of a threefold typology of core, intermediate and peripheral nodes is proposed. It is then discussed how the contributions to this Special Issue help us understand extra-regional connections between core, intermediate and peripheral nodes and their role in regional development transformations. The discussion is concluded by outlining the challenge to theorise regional transformation processes in terms of transformative mechanisms. This opens up a research agenda for theorizing the mechanisms that are representative of the differently positioned nodes along different regional development paths.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
University of Turku
Journal
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (CPES)
Band
11
Seiten
227-240
Anzahl der Seiten
14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsy015
Publikationsdatum
07-2018
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507026 Wirtschaftsgeographie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geography, Planning and Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6ccc4fe6-9e99-4bcc-a68c-ab8639762c87