Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution: a multidimensional perspective. Issue 9 (2nd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Benner, Maximilian
• Is Part Of: Regional studies. Volume 56:Issue 9(2022)
• Page Start: 1524
• Page End: 1537
• Publication Date: 2022-09-02
• Subjects: evolutionary economic geography -- coevolution -- path development -- institutions -- agency; B52 -- O31 -- O43 -- R11; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 307.14
• DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1949441
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-3404

Abstract

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.