Culture‐based development: empirical evidence for Germany

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Cultural impact on regional development: application of a PLS-PM model to Greece

“…The main contributions in the CBDrelated research show evidence of a cultural effect on local productivity. These studies show also the relevance of applying a principal component factor analysis to obtain a composite vector-like variable which is able to capture culture as a latent variable instead of using the inferior atomic variable approach to approximating culture (see Tubadji 2012Tubadji , 2013.…”

“…Yet, CBD augments it with a mobility component of spatial sorting that reflects the dynamics in addition to the static attitude and place effects. At the second gear, through the local human capital's decision-making, it affects the socio-economic choices shaping the development in a locality (see Tubadji 2012Tubadji , 2013Tubadji and Nijkamp 2014, for more details).…”

“…The idea is the following: Any locality has a path-dependently shapedand through the course of history set-collection of predominant socio-historical phenomena, attitudes and preferences, called culture. CBD defines local culture as the proto-institution that shapes all such formal and informal institutions and ramifications in a locality; its potential to do so is termed cultural capital (for more details see Tubadji 2012Tubadji , 2013. The potential of culture to influence human capital is termed local cultural capital by CBD.…”

“…Moreover, the emerging theoretical CBD concept is accumulating a constantly growing body of empirical evidence for various aspects of its claims. This evidence is thus far predominantly based on case studies from the USA (Tubadji et al 2014a, b), the EU (Tubadji and Nijkamp 2014) and Germany (Tubadji 2012;Tubadji and Pelzel 2015), but not yet from Greece. It should be noted that the data on Greece, especially with regard to human capital, is generally scant.…”

“…Against the background of the historical and modern literature on the issue of cultural impact on local development, the concept of culture-based development (CBD) has emerged in the past decade (Tubadji 2012(Tubadji , 2013Nijkamp 2014, 2015;Tubadji et al 2014a, b). Theoretically, the CBD concept aims to combine the added value from various classical and modern theoretical contributions.…”