Knowledge and Institutions

1. Front Matter

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2. On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge

   • Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz

   Pages 1-19Open Access

3. Challenges in Institutional Research

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   2. The Shared Challenges of Institutional Theories: Rational Choice, Historical Institutionalism, and Sociological Institutionalism

      • Henry Farrell

      Pages 23-44Open Access

   3. Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities

      • Diego Coraiola, Roy Suddaby, William M. Foster

      Pages 45-68Open Access

   4. Economics of Convention and its Perspective on Knowledge and Institutions

      • Rainer Diaz-Bone

      Pages 69-88Open Access

4. Institutional Dynamics Between Continuity and Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Gastronomic Societies in the Basque Country

      • Andreas Hess

      Pages 91-109Open Access

   3. Drift and Morphosis in Institutional Change: Evidence from the‘Walz’ and Public Tendering in Germany

      • Johannes Glückler, Regina Lenz

      Pages 111-133Open Access

   4. Innovation Under a Protected Label of Origin: Institutional Change in Cognac

      • Jerker Moodysson, Lionel Sack

      Pages 135-155Open Access

   5. The Art of Reconstructing a Shared Responsibility: Institutional Work of a Transnational Commons

      • Tiina Ritvala

      Pages 157-177Open Access

   6. Know Thy Place: Location and Imagined Communities in Institutional Field Dynamics

      • Tammar B. Zilber

      Pages 179-194Open Access

5. The Impact of Institutions on Regional Learning and Development

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Regional Innovation Transitions

      • Michael Storper

      Pages 197-225Open Access

   3. Institutions and the Thirst for ‘Prestige’ Transport Infrastructure

      • Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Riccardo Crescenzi, Marco Di Cataldo

      Pages 227-246Open Access

   4. Globalization and Institutional Change in Italian Industrial Districts

      • Harald Bathelt, Nicolas Conserva

      Pages 247-269Open Access

   5. Studying Entrepreneurship as an Institution

      • Pamela S. Tolbert, Ryan Coles

      Pages 271-299Open Access

6. Back Matter

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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.

• Conventions
• Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
• Institutional Emergence and Change
• Institutional Theory
• Knowledge and Innovation
• Mnemomic Communities
• Open Access

• Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

  Johannes Glückler, Regina Lenz

• Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

  Roy Suddaby

Johannes Glückler is Professor of Economic and Social Geography and Fellow of the Marsilius Center for Advanced Studies at Heidelberg University. His research follows a relational perspective and builds on theories of organization, networks and institutions in the analysis of knowledge and the space economy. He serves on several editorial boards of journals in the field of economic geography and as a partner of the Schader Foundation in the area of social network research. He is also co-founder of the M.Sc. Governance of Risks and Resources at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America in Santiago de Chile.

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Business at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada and Research Professor at the Newcastle University Business School, U.K. Professor Suddaby is an internationally regarded scholar of organizational theory and institutional change. His work has contributed to our understanding of the critical role of symbolic resources – legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history – in improving an organization’s competitive position. His current research examines the changing social and symbolic role of the modern corporation.

Regina Lenz is a research associate at the Chair of Economic and Social Geography at Heidelberg University. She studied geography, history, English literature and philology, and economics at Heidelberg University and wrote her diploma thesis on the effectiveness of a development approach in Bangladesh’s leather sector. Furthermore, she has worked for a local business development agency and has done internships in development cooperation and international site selection. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of social institutions, as well as their effects on human interaction and public policy-making.