Knowledge and institutions /

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 chan...

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Other Authors: Glückler, Johannes (Editor), Suddaby, Roy (Editor), Lenz, Regina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open, [2018]
Series:Knowledge and space ; 13.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • On the spatiality of institutions and knowledge
  • Part I. Challenges in institutional research
  • The shared challenges of institutional theories: rational choice, historical institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism
  • Organizational fields as mnemonic communities
  • Economics of convention and its perspective on knowledge and institutions
  • Part II. Institutional dynamics between continuity and change
  • Gastronomic societies in the Basque Country
  • Drift and morphosis in institutional change: evidence from the 'Walz' and public tendering in Germany
  • Innovation under a protected label of origin: institutional change in Cognac
  • The art of reconstructing a shared responsibility: institutional work of a transnational commons
  • Know thy place: location and imagined communities in institutional field dynamics
  • Part III. The impact of institutions on regional learning and development
  • Regional innovation transitions
  • Institutions and the thirst for 'prestige' transport infrastructure
  • Globalization and institutional change in Italian industrial districts
  • Studying entrepreneurship as an institution
  • The Klaus Tschira Stiftung.