Temporality of agency in regional development
(2022) In European Urban and Regional Studies 29(1). p.107-125- Abstract
The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or... (More)
The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or constrain different types of agency. We illustrate our arguments with an in-depth case study covering the regional development of a labour market in Norway over the last 20 years.
(Less)
- author
- Grillitsch, Markus LU ; Asheim, Bjørn LU and Nielsen, Hjalti LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Agency, economic diversification, innovation policy, innovative entrepreneurship, institutional entrepreneurship, new path development, place-based leadership, regional development, temporality
- in
- European Urban and Regional Studies
- volume
- 29
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 107 - 125
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85111502337
- ISSN
- 0969-7764
- DOI
- 10.1177/09697764211028884
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Länsförsäkringar Alliance Research Foundation, Sweden (grant number: 2017/01/011). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
- id
- 3f0c92b0-ffe9-4253-b07a-4c5a84c2323f
- date added to LUP
- 2021-08-09 08:18:07
- date last changed
- 2024-01-20 09:47:58
@article{3f0c92b0-ffe9-4253-b07a-4c5a84c2323f,
abstract = {{<p>The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or constrain different types of agency. We illustrate our arguments with an in-depth case study covering the regional development of a labour market in Norway over the last 20 years.</p>}},
author = {{Grillitsch, Markus and Asheim, Bjørn and Nielsen, Hjalti}},
issn = {{0969-7764}},
keywords = {{Agency; economic diversification; innovation policy; innovative entrepreneurship; institutional entrepreneurship; new path development; place-based leadership; regional development; temporality}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{107--125}},
publisher = {{SAGE Publications}},
series = {{European Urban and Regional Studies}},
title = {{Temporality of agency in regional development}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09697764211028884}},
doi = {{10.1177/09697764211028884}},
volume = {{29}},
year = {{2022}},
}