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Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region

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  • Emelie Langemyr Eriksen
  • Arne Isaksen
  • Jan Ole Rypestøl

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This paper explores the role that industrial culture and human agency play in regional industrial development. It makes three contributions. First, it discusses and explores the concept of regional industrial culture and examines its relevance for regional industrial development. Second, it identifies and investigates two main forms of regional industrial culture: one self-interest dominated type and one community dominated type. Third, the paper discusses how firm – and system-level agencies can contribute to changing the dominant form of industrial culture at the regional level. The paper also provides a study of the regional industrial culture and change in the culture by key actors and agency in the Molde region in Western Norway since 2010. The empirical study demonstrates that the concepts of self-interest and community dominated culture and their link to firm – and system – level agency is relevant to capture and describe a regional industrial culture and potential changes within it. We found that the industrial cultural change in the Molde region could be regarded as mainly being the outcome of system level agency performed by both firm – and system – level actors.

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  • Emelie Langemyr Eriksen & Arne Isaksen & Jan Ole Rypestøl, 2023. "Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(12), pages 2552-2567, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:31:y:2023:i:12:p:2552-2567
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2162333
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