Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis
研究了12个北欧地区30年间40个区域经济发展阶段中人类能动性的作用，通过200多份访谈和多种数据源，识别出哪些能动性类型与背景条件的组合能实现产业升级或多样化。
This paper investigates the role of human agency in 40 phases of regional economic development in 12 Nordic regions over 30 years. It contributes with a theoretical framework to study agency over time and a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on a unique dataset combining over 200 interviews, with printed and online sources, and quantitative data. The paper identifies which combinations of agency types and context conditions make industrial upgrading or diversification possible, and investigates how such combinations come into being. The causal claims from this analysis are illustrated with empirical examples and discussed in relation to previous literature.