• 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 ...
    • 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 ...