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Participative Democracy and the Diffusion of Organizational Innovations: The Long, Winding Road from a Plant Level ‘Field Experiment’ to Regional Economic Development

In: Learning Regional Innovation

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  • Thoralf Ulrik Qvale

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This chapter will concentrate on a specific line of development from one of the first ‘field experiments’ of the Industrial Democracy Programme (Emery and Thorsrud 1976, Thorsrud and Emery 1969): the Hunsfos paper and pulp mill. This line ends with what, in the period after 2000, seems to be the largest, most complex and comprehensive tripartite project in this work life democratization effort; the industrial and regional development in the Grenland region in Telemark, Norway. Through this, I will describe and analyse the ‘mechanisms’ that seem to have been active in the transfer of knowledge or diffusion process that has taken place, and now seems to be speeding up and having effects across the region.

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  • Thoralf Ulrik Qvale, 2011. "Participative Democracy and the Diffusion of Organizational Innovations: The Long, Winding Road from a Plant Level ‘Field Experiment’ to Regional Economic Development," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Marianne Ekman & Bjørn Gustavsen & Bjørn T. Asheim & Øyvind Pålshaugen (ed.), Learning Regional Innovation, chapter 10, pages 187-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30415-4_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230304154_10
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    1. Helge Svare, 2016. "User-Producer Dialogue, Workplace Innovation, and Knowledge in a Regional Innovation System," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 7(2), pages 565-586, June.

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