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Portrait Lea Fünfschilling. Photo: Emma Lord.

Lea Fünfschilling

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Portrait Lea Fünfschilling. Photo: Emma Lord.

Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal

Author

  • Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer
  • Lea Fuenfschilling
  • Johan Miörner
  • Michaela Trippl

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Lund University
  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Pages

579-591

Publication/Series

Regional Studies

Volume

56

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Social and Economic Geography

Keywords

  • coherence
  • elaboration
  • institutional infrastructure
  • path renewal
  • structures

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0034-3404