As one of the biggest consumers of natural resources, the building industry is a central target
for EU and national Circular Economy (CE) policies. This qualitative case study uses a …

Evolutionary economic geography has sought to understand the development of regional
industrial pathways but tended to neglect both the multiscalarity of economic development …

Dynamic institutional changes, and their impact at the actor level, are largely neglected in
research on the role of institutional change in foreign direct investment (FDI). To fill this …

Cultural proximities are significant aspects that can foster or hinder integration in border
regions; however, culture is underrepresented in border studies. Such cultural proximities …

This article studies the integration of Hidden Champions–little-known highly innovative
global market leaders–in rural regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany. These firms …

The interaction between institutional settings and Entrepreneurial Families (EFs) is two-fold.
Extant literature has attempted to understand how institutional settings can affect Family …

Abstract The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) is a relatively new theoretical
perspective that adds a complementary lens to the explanation of policy processes and …

We take an institutional perspective to examine how innovation thrives under conditions of
resistance. Specifically, we conceive illicit innovation as a process of successive …

The legitimation of new regional industrial paths has become a crucial issue in path
development since it touches the institutional foundations of spatial evolution and fits the …

This editorial introduces the nexus between family firms, hidden champions, and regional
development from an economic geography perspective. Family firms constitute the …