Toward a relational economic geography
提出经济地理学正转向关系视角,强调经济行为者嵌入社会与制度关系、路径依赖和历史约束,以及策略的开放性,并基于组织、演化、创新和互动四个维度构建分析框架。
In this paper, we argue that a paradigmatic shift is occurring in economic geography toward a relational economic geography. This rests on three propositions. First, from a structural perspective economic actors are situated in contexts of social and institutional relations. Second, in dynamic perspective economic processes are path‐dependent, constrained by history. Third, economic processes are contingent in that the agents' strategies and actions are open‐ended. Drawing on Storper's holy trinity, we define four ions as the basis for analysis in economic geography: organization, evolution, innovation, and interaction. Therein, we employ a particular spatial perspective of economic processes using a geographical lens.