Evolutionary trajectories of manufacturing firms in the rural Zlín Region of Czechia

Šťastná, Simona; Pavlík, Adam

doi:10.14712/23361980.2021.8

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“…These companies can thus be expected to contribute to the generation and accumulation of 'sticky', locally rooted territorial capital in an advantageous growth environment. Similar results have been found in a Czech peripheral region (Šťastná, Pavlík 2021), where medium-sized rms were also identi ed as important carriers of locally embedded knowledge sets, and actors in domestic capital accumulation.…”

Section: Rebuilding Territorial Capital Via the Domestic Sme Sectorsupporting

confidence: 81%

FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda

Gál

Lux

2022

TéT

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This review article reflects on thirty years of FDI-dependent development in Central and Eastern European regions (with a special emphasis on the Visegrad countries). The modernisation potential of FDI-led European integration is examined from a critical and comparative perspective. The authors argue that the FDI-led “Dependent Market Economy” (DME) model has fallen short of its anticipated modernisation potential, while other, potentially lucrative development alternatives have been neglected. While early-stage benefits were considerable, the development model now faces signs of exhaustion and an increasing number of contradictions. The paper builds on previous original research by the authors, as well as a review of international academic literature to describe the limitations and trade-offs of the DME development model, followed by an overview of three alternate growth paths for the future. In the macro-level perspective, it is argued that long-term catching-up rates across Central and Eastern Europe over 30 years have been limited, and signs of slowdown are increasingly apparent. Likewise, FDI does not seem to contribute significantly to domestic capital accumulation. On the micro-economic and regional levels, limited income effects are coupled with intangible risks and trade-offs. Strengthened socio-economic and territorial disparities ultimately pose problems for both metropolitan core regions and peripheries, while low capital embeddedness and limited spillovers denote weak territorial integration. It I advanced that the DME model may exacerbate future structural crises and exogenous shocks, and finally, that a development model dependent on exogenous capital structures shows curtailed capability to explore, learn, and benefit from beneficial growth opportunities. The paper makes the case that, while the DME model cannot be realistically dismantled in the foreseeable future without considerable risk to the CEE economies, a comprehensive diversification agenda should seek to gradually reduce its risks and foster alternate sources of growth. Embedding foreign capital into local economic networks represents one possible compromise, coupled with growing supplier networks and anchoring value creation in business services as well as innovation and R&D activities. However, alternate sources of development are also to be explored. The new revival of industrial policies in Europe and across the world opens opportunities before previously ‘inconceivable’ state-led development initiatives, including support for the emergence of new national champions. Last but not least, a strengthening domestic SME sector with competitive medium-sized enterprises and locally embedded production networks should serve to strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in domestic capital accumulation and value creation. Together, these and similar steps have the capability to shift the balance from the DME model towards a more competitive and resilient “successor model” where the interests of FDI and domestic development can be fruitfully reconciled.

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Section: Rebuilding Territorial Capital Via the Domestic Sme Sectorsupporting

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FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda

Gál

Lux

2022

TéT

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“…The main export sectors were the sugar industry, engineering and textiles (Rudolph 1976). After the First World War, these export industries were expanded to include the production of weapons 1 (Šťastná and Pavlík 2021). An important impetus for the industrialization of the formerly backward East Moravia was the activities of the shoe company Baťa in Zlín, which established branches in other cities, and became the overall industrial driver of the region Figure 2.…”

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Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras

Vaishar

Šťastná

Zapletalová

2022

European Planning Studies

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The paper focuses on the changes to the industrial structure of small Moravian towns as these towns are part of the settlement structure that connects urban and rural systems. Small towns (of up to 15,000 inhabitants) are the most industrialized part of the Czech settlement system. They were the subject of capitalist industrialization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as socialist industrialization in the second half of the twentieth century. Therefore, the research question asks how the small-town sector coped with the transition to a post-productive society and how small towns were differentiated during this process. Population censuses were the main tool used to gather data for comparison. Today, small towns have preserved, in particular, less innovatively demanding industries, which have been pushed out of large and medium-sized cities. At the same time, they are undergoing a process of post-productive transformation which is associated with a massive transfer of job opportunities to services, but they can also become starting points for cultural tourism in rural areas. However, their future development will be very differentiated depending on their location concerning regional centres, on the quality of human and social capital and also on their historical pathways.

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Transformation from Rural Industrialization to Suburban Industrialization in Guangzhou: Pattern and Mechanism

Zhang,

Xiao,

Chen

2024

Land

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Analyzing the trajectory and mechanism of rural industrial change is important for understanding urban–rural integration and facilitating rural revitalization. Based on the data of industrial enterprises in 1112 administrative villages of Guangzhou, China, from 1978 to 2020, we identify the evolution trend of rural industry by investigating the spatial–temporal dynamics of industrial changes in rural areas. An extended triple-process framework incorporating urbanization and greenization was employed to unravel the underlying mechanism of the trajectory of rural industrialization. The results highlight the transformation from rural to suburban industrialization. In the past twenty years, rapid urbanization has contributed to the establishment of development zones. The agglomeration economy has led to a higher concentration of manufacturing industries in these development zones rather than rural areas. The eco-friendly development has resulted in a green transition in rural areas, further restricting the growth of traditional rural industries. Our analysis provides a nuanced picture of Guangzhou’s spatial–temporal dynamics of rural and suburban industrialization. Meanwhile, it emphasizes the importance of urbanization and greenization in explaining the recent transformation of industrialization in China.

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Evolutionary trajectories of manufacturing firms in the rural Zlín Region of Czechia

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda

FDI-based regional development in Central and Eastern Europe: A review and an agenda

Small industrial towns in Moravia: a comparison of the production and post-productive eras

Transformation from Rural Industrialization to Suburban Industrialization in Guangzhou: Pattern and Mechanism

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