Returning to work: regional determinants of re-employment after major redundancies

Hane-Weijman, Emelie; Eriksson, Rikard; Henning, Martin

doi:10.1080/00343404.2017.1395006

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“…More importantly, many of the employees who previously worked in the electronics industry have found new jobs in other technology‐related industries such as the high‐technology service sector (see Figure ). This is in line with the findings of, for example, Hane‐Weijman et al (), Boschma, Eriksson, and Lindgren () as well the original conclusion of Marshall () that the presence of related industries in a region improves significantly workers' re‐employment opportunities. Overall, we may well argue that the resilience of workers has been clearly one of the most important factors in the recovery of the Oulu region.…”

Section: Resilience and Governance Of Structural Change In The Oulu Rsupporting

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Creative destruction and creative resilience: Restructuring of the Nokia dominated high‐tech sector in the Oulu region

Simonen

Herala

Svento

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The Oulu region, a globally recognized hub of mobile technology development in Northern Finland, provides a textbook example of how the various features of an innovation ecosystem can cause serious problems for regional development when a region faces a shock. The Oulu region is also an interesting example of how the effects of shock can be alleviated through creative actions and effective regional policy. In this paper, we develop a framework for analysing resilience using creativeness as the key element. We contribute to the literature by showing how this framework can be used in the operation and management of the regions hit by creative destruction types of shocks. We argue that the dynamic process that Oulu has gone through, in which obsolete and unproductive business activities have been replaced by new fields of technology and knowledge, can clearly be compared in many ways with Schumpeter's description of "creative destruction." We call this dynamic process creative resilience. We identify three elements as the core of creative resilience; knowledge creation, entrepreneurship and community spirit. Our paper will show how they materialized in the Oulu region.

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Section: Resilience and Governance Of Structural Change In The Oulu Rsupporting

confidence: 91%

Creative destruction and creative resilience: Restructuring of the Nokia dominated high‐tech sector in the Oulu region

Simonen

Herala

Svento

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Therefore, we argue that although in-depth insights based on individual attributes or single (types of) network influence are useful, it is important to consider how the salience of multiple networks and moderating factors interrelate. As we have shown, such an approach adds the potential to integrate insights, generated through a focus on one type of network or a smaller set of factors (Hane-Weijman, Eriksson & Henning, 2017;Rodrigues, Guest & Budjanovcanin, 2016;Uzzi, 1997).…”

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Social network influences on employee responses to organizational withdrawals

Siedlok

Hibbert

Whitehurst

2020

OMJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a more detailed understanding of how embedding in different social networks relates to different types of action that individuals choose in the context of organizational closures, downsizing or relocations. To develop such insights, this paper focuses on three particular types of social networks, namely, intra-organizational; external professional and local community networks. These three types of networks have been frequently related to different types of action in the context of closures and relocations. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper. The authors develop the argument by integrating relevant recent literature on the salience related to embedding in different types of social networks, with a particular focus on responses to organizational closure or relocation. Findings The authors argue that at times of industrial decline and closure: embeddedness in intra-organizational networks can favor collective direct action; embeddedness in professional networks is likely to favor individual direct action and embeddedness in community networks can lead to individual indirect action. The authors then add nuance to the argument by considering a range of complicating factors that can constrain or enable the course (s) of action favored by particular combinations of network influences. Originality/value On a theoretical level, this paper adds to understandings of the role of network embeddedness in influencing individual and collective responses to such disruptive events; and direct or indirect forms of response. On a practical level, the authors contribute to understandings about how the employment landscape may evolve in regions affected by organizational demise, and how policymakers may study with or through network influences to develop more responsible downsizing approaches.

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“…Two common distributions for this are the exponential distribution and the Weibull distribution, of which the exponential is a special case. 42 As the exponential distribution is a special case of the Weibull, it is natural to prefer the Weibull distribution. If the data implies that an exponential is a good fit, it will be evident from the parameter estimates.…”

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“…For the purposes of our analysis, as the lower bound of each interval is fixed at 0, this would imply that the hazard rate is dependent on the current tenure of the respondent. A Weibull distribution, with its assumption of a declining hazard rate over time, fits the economic theory of unemployment 42. In making an assumption about the distribution of events, the hazard rate is restricted to path defined by the distribution and the fit of the data to that distribution.…”

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