• Advancing the treatment of human agency in the analysis of regional economic development: Illustrated with three Norwegian cases 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Isaksen, Arne; Nielsen, Hjalti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Human agency has become a core topic in economic geography complementing traditional, structural approaches to explain regional development. This paper contributes firstly with a discussion of the theoretical and conceptual ...
    • Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Sotarauta, Markku; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Haus-Reve, Silje; Kolehmainen, Jari; Kurikka, Heli; Lundquist, Karl-Johan; Martynovich, Mikhail; Monteilhet, Skirmante; Nielsen, Hjalti; Nilsson, Magnus; Rekers, Josephine V.; Sopanen, S.; Stihl, Linda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 ...
    • Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions 

      Roebke, Lukas; Grillitsch, Markus; Coenen, Lars Martel Antoine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-10-24)
      Experimentation has become one of the prevailing modes of governing the transition toward sustainable practices in urban environments. The spatial variation of urban sustainability transition has been attributed to a variety ...
    • The geography of connectivity: a review of mobile positioning data for economic geography 

      Erlström, Andreas; Grillitsch, Markus; Hall, Ola (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Connectivity between and within places is one of the cornerstones of geography. However, the data and methodologies used to capture connectivity are limited due to the difficulty in gathering and analysing detailed ...
    • Temporality of agency in regional development 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Asheim, Bjørn; Nielsen, Hjalti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality ...
    • Towards regenerative regional development in responsible value chains: an agentic response to recent crises 

      Grillitsch, Markus; Asheim, Bjørn Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05-04)
      In this paper, we empirically and theoretically present regenerative regional development in responsible value chains as an alternative to the prevailing traditional, neoliberal economic rationale of globalization. We ...
    • Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development 

      Nilsen, Trond; Grillitsch, Markus; Hauge, Atle Jensen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The extent to which structures and preconditions stimulate or hinder regional development is of interest in economic geography, as is the renewal of ‘left-behind’ peripheral regions. However, few studies have addressed how ...