Full Description
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional scales across Europe and North America. Rooted in the disciplines of management and organization studies, sociology, geography, political science, and economics the contributors all take comprehensive approaches to carve out the specific contextuality of institutions as well as their impact on societal outcomes. Not only does this book offer detailed insights into current debates in institutional theory, it also provides background for scholars, students, and professionals at the intersection between regional development, policy-making, and regulation.
Contents
Chapter 1. Knowledge, Geography and Institutions: An Introduction (Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ).- Part I: Institutions, Knowledge and Innovation.- Chapter 2. Regional Innovation Transitions (Michael Storper).- chapter 3. Globalization and Institutional Change in Italian Industrial Districts (Harald Bathelt, Nicolas Conserva).- chapter 4. Innovation under a Protected Label of Origin: Institutional Change in Cognac (Jerker Moodysson, Lionel Sack).- Chapter 5. Conventions, Institutions and Knowledge - Perspectives on Institutions and Knowledge from the Standpoint of the "Economics of Convention" (Rainer Diaz-Bone).- Part II: Institutional Emergence, Change and Maintenance.- Chapter 6. Gastronomic Societies in the Basque Country (Andreas Hess).- Chapter 7. Continuity or Change? Drift and Morphosis in Shifting Institutional Contexts (Johannes Glückler, Regina Lenz).- Chapter 8. The Shared Challenges of Institutional Theories: Rational Choice, Historical Institutionalism andSociological Institutionalism (Henry Farrell).- Chapter 9. Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities (Diego Coraiola, Roy Suddaby, William M. Foster).- Part III: A Spatial Perspective on Institutions.- Chapter 10. Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics (Tammar B. Zilber).- Chapter 11. The Art of Reconstructing a Shared Responsibility: Institutional Work of a Transnational Commons (Tiina Ritvala).- Chapter 12. Institutions and the Thirst for 'Prestige' Transport Infrastructure (Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Riccardo Crescenzi, Mario Di Cataldo).- Chapter 13. Studying Entrepreneurship as an Institution (Pamela S. Tolbert, Ryan Coles).
