Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis

Suyash Jolly, Markus Grillitsch, Teis Hansen

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Abstract

Despite significant interest in regional industrial restructuring in economic geography, surprisingly, scarce attention has been paid to the changing role of agency over time. The current paper develops a framework for understanding the role of multiple types of actors and the agency they exercise for regional industrial path development. The framework is employed in a longitudinal study of industry development in Värmland, Sweden, from forestry towards a bio-economy. The analysis highlights how actors exercise very different types of agency in different periods of regional industrial path development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)176-188
JournalGeoforum
Volume111
Issue numberMay 2020
Early online date2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Economic Geography

Free keywords

  • Bio-economy
  • Värmland
  • Agency
  • Regional industrial path development
  • Longitudinal

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