Institutional change in economic geography

Bathelt, Harald; Glückler, Johannes

doi:10.1177/0309132513507823

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“…Bathelt and Glückler (2014) suggest institutions are the relatively stable interactions between economic agents that develop upon rules and regulations in contingent ways. Importantly, rules themselves are not always fully institutionalised.…”

Section: The Relational Nature Of Regulatory Implementation: Resourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Regulation in practice: Power, resources and context at the local scale in UK food retailing

Wood

Alexander

2016

Environ Plan A

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This article uses a relational lens to explore the conflict between the regulatory state and a leading food retailer seeking store expansion within one catchment in south-east England over an eight year period. The research highlights the relational power geometries which play out in context between regulators and a regulated corporate firm to emphasise the role of power, resources, and scale. The research teases out how the power of the state to uphold an interpretation of market rules is compromised by a lack of responsiveness compared to both the proactive and reactive tactics of the well-resourced corporate retailer. It recognises how multiple regulatory agents of the state with divergent goals, sometimes situated across different spatial scales of governance, can produce markedly different judgements resulting in outcomes that are not in the public interest. Such situations require swift and coherent regulatory responses and can reveal the need for changes to the organisation of the regulatory infrastructure itself.

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Section: The Relational Nature Of Regulatory Implementation: Resourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Regulation in practice: Power, resources and context at the local scale in UK food retailing

Wood

Alexander

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…If researchers have better defined accounts of institutions, and of the precise ways in which they affect, for example, economic development, they will be able to build better accounts of how (apparently) different institutions may lead to similar outcomes in some instances, while (apparently) similar institutions lead to different outcomes in other instances. Bathelt and Glückler (2014) were more concerned with innovation than economic growth as such, but they reached similar conclusions. They cautioned that the social science literature on institutionalism is itself often riven by contradictions, for example, concerning what exactly an institution is.…”

Section: Economic Geography and Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 72%

“…For example, Farole, Rodriguez-Pose, and Storper (2011) argued that both economic geographers (despite the centrifugal tendencies of the field) and social science institutionalists are interested in the underlying determinants of growth. Bathelt and Glückler (2014;Glückler & Bathelt, 2017) suggest that institutional theory can help economic geographers better understand the underlying dynamics of innovation. Their arguments built on earlier scholarship (e.g., Amin & Thrift, 1995), which sought specifically to understand the contribution of institutions to geographically specific economies.…”

Section: Economic Geography and Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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

Farrell

2018

Knowledge and Institutions

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“…by Fuchs et al 2002 and debated in an economic context by, e.g. Stigler and Becker 1977;Hodgson 2003;Bathelt and Gluckler 2013).…”

Section: Social Interaction: Methodological Individualism Versus Ontomentioning

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A philosophical case for process-based modelling of land use change

Brown

Rounsevell

2016

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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Modelling is used to describe, explore and predict changes in land use and other human systems. 'Top-down' and 'bottom-up' modelling approaches are both popular, and each has important philosophical implications that correspond closely to major debates in social science. We outline some key contributions to these debates and argue that social processes such as those underlying land use decisions are fundamentally determined by individual intentionality, interacting with social norms of language, culture and institutions, rather than by general and predictable 'laws'. Therefore, bottom-up models that reflect these processes offer far more informative accounts of system development. However, prediction remains outside the scope of either approach, and methods of validation based on tests of historical predictive ability risk over-fitting to trends and underestimating uncertainties. We explore the implications of these arguments for model design and use, and for general understanding of such fundamentally complex, spontaneously evolving systems.

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Institutional change in economic geography

Cited by 187 publications

References 97 publications

Regulation in practice: Power, resources and context at the local scale in UK food retailing

Regulation in practice: Power, resources and context at the local scale in UK food retailing

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

A philosophical case for process-based modelling of land use change

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