Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity

Beer, Andrew; Irving, Jacob

doi:10.4337/9781788979689.00027

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“…Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in an economic development setting, the methodological approaches available to study agency in path development or path creation have not followed theoretical development and empirical studies. Following Beer and Irving’s thinking Beer and Irvin (2021), we argue that the research on agency needs to reach beyond the search for new conceptual frameworks. The literature on path development does not pay adequate attention to the ontological issues that Garud et al (2010) have pointed out, and thus has resulted in a thin understanding of ontology.…”

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Path tracing in the study of agency and structures: Methodological considerations

Sotarauta

Grillitsch

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development and empirical studies. This article aims to shed light on methodological issues related to the study of path dependence, path creation and agency. The article’s main purpose is to construct a methodology - path tracing - that would allow studying path development by scrutinising how structures constrain actors and how actors work to shape the very same structures in which they are embedded. Path tracing draws on critical realism, process tracing and structured narrative analysis.

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confidence: 99%