The complexity of innovation: A relational turn

Fløysand, Arnt; Jakobsen, Stig‐Erik

doi:10.1177/0309132510376257

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“…Some scholars state that we need to be more sensitive with respect to socio-spatial and economic contexts, and call for a relational turn in studies of globally interconnected economic practice (Rath & Kloosterman 2000;Fløysand & Jakobsen 2010). In integrating geographical aspects with social and cultural aspects, this turn enables us to understand entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities as based on a mixed embeddedness rather than on affinity with co-ethnic networks only (Rath & Kloosterman 2000).…”

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Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Eimermann

Karlsson

2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The main purpose of the article is to connect rural immigrants' business ventures and development in Sweden to relational perspectives on their proximate and distant family and co-ethnic networks at structural and individual levels. Accordingly, the authors employ a relational approach and draw on in-depth interviews. In the context of urban-rural relationships' meanings for the restaurateurs' business benefits and constraints, they address two questions: (1) What does embeddedness in proximate and distant family and co-ethnic networks mean for the interviewed restaurateurs and for their businesses? and (2) How do previous and anticipated transitions in the restaurateurs' families influence their business decisions and migration trajectories? The results suggest that the interviewees employed transnational dimensions in their social embeddedness and that they maintained material and emotional relationships with their countries of origin. This relational approach thus contributes to a better understanding of what the studied businesses mean for the entrepreneurs and the selected localities. The restaurateurs contribute to a globalisation of Swedish countrysides, but their socio-economic potential for countering rural depopulation in Sweden is not fully realised. Additionally, the study illuminates how individuals influence, and are influenced by, place-to-place mobilities on a daily basis and during their life course. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Social Network and Embeddedness In Urbanrural Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Eimermann

Karlsson

2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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“…The concept is rather fuzzy and includes a wide array of couplings ranging from incidental spillovers to formal innovation collaboration and joint ventures (Fløysand & Jakobsen 2011). The innovation literature differs between searching, sourcing, and collaboration as three distinct type of networking (Herstad et al 2011).…”

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“…The evolutionary perspective argues that over time firms within in a region can develop similarities according to routines, rules of conduct, and conventions that may provide guidance for firms' involvement in networking (i.e. the development of a regional industry culture) (Bathelt et al 2004;Fløysand & Jakobsen 2011). Through self-reinforcing effects an established pattern for networking within a region is maintained and a distinct development path will gain momentum within the region (Martin 2010).…”

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“…Similarly, external linkages in some cases can be informal and more related to similarity in perspective than to dissimilarity between the involved partners (Boschma 2005). A balanced combination of geographically 'close' and 'distant' relationships with both 'similar' and 'different' actors is most likely to promote competitiveness and innovation (Uzzi 1997;Bathelt et al 2004;Boschma 2005;Fløysand & Jakobsen 2011;Cooke 2012). …”

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Between bonding and bridging: Regional differences in innovative collaboration in Norway

Jakobsen¹,

Lorentzen²

2015

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The objective of the article is to investigate innovation collaboration among firms in different types of regions in Norway. Informed by literature on innovation network and regional development, the authors examine whether firms in some regions participate more frequently in innovation collaboration than firms in other regions. They also discuss regional differences in type of innovation collaboration. The analysis is based on data from the Sixth Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS), collected by Statistics Norway in 2008, which provided both descriptive statistics and could be used for logistic regression analysis. Key findings are that the likelihood of innovation collaboration is inversely related to region size, and innovation collaboration is especially prevalent among firms in rural regions. A further finding is that firms in rural regions are more involved in bridging linkages (collaboration with different type of actors) than firms in the capital and metropolitan regions. These differences are attributed to the 'organizational thinness' of rural regions, which indicate as lack of specific resources in the regions and therefore creates a need for external collaborators.

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“…In some cases, small adjustments in practices or technologies may represent innovative steps toward sustainability, while in other cases there is a strong need for more radical transformations. Some of the literature on innovation focuses on ensuring economic competitiveness for firms in an increasingly globalized economy (Fløysand and Jakobsen, 2010), and some concentrates on the relationship between environment on the one hand and the competitiveness of firms on the other (Mol and Sonnenfeld, 2000). In addition, there is a body of social science literature on innovation that has emerged during the last 15 years, motivated by the need for transforming society as a whole in more sustainable directions.…”

Section: Innovationmentioning

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