Field analysis of industrial development in a peripheral region of Norway

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-03-15 DOI:10.1080/00291951.2022.2065356

Roger Normann, Mikaela Vasstrøm, Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper explores how industrial development can occur in a peripheral region through the gradual development of strategic coherence between organisations, materiality, and agency. In a longitudinal case study of how the mechatronics industry became a main area for regional development spanning 50 years in the region of Agder in Norway, the authors have followed how national and regional innmovation policies, individual actors, and organisational strategies eventually flow together and influence organisations and firms to collaborate towards new and shared aims. In the paper, the authors perform field theory analysis, with emphasis on the significance of the development of reciprocal relations between institutions, understood as authorities, businesses, and universities, and strategic agency within and between strategic action fields. They question how industrial development in a peripheral region can be understood through a strategic action fields framework. The findings reveal that development of the industry spanned the evolution from small-scale entrepreneurial engineering activities in the 1960s to a regional innovation system and National Centre of Excellence with global knowledge hub ambitions in the 2010s. In conclusion, the analysis shows how mechatronics achieved a central role in regional development through common action between previously decoupled academic and industrial strategic action fields.

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本文探讨了工业发展如何通过组织、重要性和机构之间的战略一致性的逐步发展在外围地区发生。在对挪威阿格德地区的机电一体化工业如何成为跨越50年的区域发展的主要领域的纵向案例研究中，作者跟踪了国家和区域创新政策、个人行为者和组织战略最终如何一起流动并影响组织和公司朝着新的和共同的目标合作。在本文中，作者进行了场域理论分析，重点是机构之间互惠关系的发展的意义，理解为当局，企业和大学，以及战略行动领域内部和之间的战略代理。他们质疑如何通过战略行动领域框架来理解外围地区的工业发展。研究结果表明，该产业的发展经历了从20世纪60年代的小规模创业工程活动到2010年代具有全球知识中心雄心的区域创新体系和国家卓越中心的演变。最后，分析显示了机电一体化如何通过先前分离的学术和工业战略行动领域之间的共同行动在区域发展中发挥核心作用。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.