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Internationalization, and Institutional and Regional Change: Restructuring Post-communist Networks in the Region of Lan w kroun, Czech Republic

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UHLI r D. (1998) Internationalization, and institutional and regional change: restructuring post-communist networks in the region of Lan w kroun, Czech Republic, Reg. Studies 32, 673-685. The aim of this paper is to establish a framework for the analysis of regional change drawing on a combination of network theory and the concepts of social and symbolic capital of Bourdieu. It argues that regional change in the Czech Republic can be analysed as a combination of network restructuring and struggles for the redefinition of symbolic capital. The case study section presents an example of restructuring in the Lan skroun region, previously entirely dominated by one single employer. Using evidence from this region, the paper argues that a combination of symbolic capital of foreign investment can be combined successfully with parts of local pre-1989 networks of social capital and that such a combination can reinvigorate regional economies. UHLI r D. (1998) Internationalisation, et developpements institutionnel et regional: la restructuration des reseaux postcommunistes dans la region de Lanskroun, dans la Republique tcheque, Reg. Studies 32, 673-685. Cet article a pour but d'etablir un cadre pour analyser le developpement regional puisant ala fois dans la theorie de reseaux et dans les notions de capital social et symbolique d'apres Bordieu. On soutient que le developpement regional dans la Republique tcheque peut etre analysecomme une combinaison de la restructuration des reseaux et des luttes en faveur de la redefinition du capital symbolique. L'etude de cas presente la restructuration de la region de Lanskroun qui avait ete auparavant dans les mains d'un seul employeur. A partir des preuves provenant de la region, l'article soutient que le capital symbolique de l'investissement etranger peut etre combine avec succes avec des elements des reseaux locaux du capital social qui datent d'avant 1989 et qu'une telle combinaison peut revigorer les economies regionales. UHLI r D. (1998) Internationalisierung, und institutioneller und regionaler Wandel: Umstrukturierung im Anschluss an die kommunistischen Netzwerke im Gebiet von Lanskroun in der tschechischen Republik, Reg. Studies 32, 673-685. Es ist das Ziel dieses Aufsatzes, einen Rahmen fur die Analyse regionalen Wandels zu schaffen, wobei eine Komination von Netzwerktheorie und Bourdieu's Begriff von sozialem und symbolischem Kapital herangezogen wird. Es wird die These aufgestellt, dass regionaler Wandel in der tschechischen Republik als eine Kombination von Netzwerkumstrukturierung und Anstrengungen um die Neudefinierung symbolischen Kapitals analysiert werden kann. Der Abschnitt Fallstudien stellt ein Beispiel der Umstrukturierung des Lanskrouner Gebietes vor, das fruher von einem einzigen Arbeitgeber beherrscht wurde. Der Aufsatz tritt mit Hilfe von Beweisen von dieser Region dafur ein, dass eine Kombination von symbolischem Kapital auslandischer Investierungen erfolgreich mit Teilen ortlicher, vor 1989 bestehender Netzwerke sozialen Kapitals kombiniert werden, und dass solch eine Kombination die regionale Wirtschaft neu beleben kann.

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  • David Uhlir, 1998. "Internationalization, and Institutional and Regional Change: Restructuring Post-communist Networks in the Region of Lan w kroun, Czech Republic," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(7), pages 673-685.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:32:y:1998:i:7:p:673-685
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409850119544
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