By Gerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira
Rethinking neighborhood Innovation and alter brings jointly papers from major foreign students within the box of nearby improvement and coverage. The members study the interactions among path-dependent advancements, associations, and governance buildings that effect neighborhood innovation capability. up to date case reviews current different theoretical views from economics, political technological know-how, geography, making plans, and public coverage.
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5 BEYOND PATH DEPENDENCY AND “ONE BEST WAY” The result of the discussion is that neither the thesis of competition-induced “one best way” nor path dependency can adequately explain whether transnational institutional transfer is possible or not. The thesis by which, under penalty of ruin, the most efficient practice has to be adopted has an unstable foundation both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, no clear trend toward convergence is discernible, price alone is not the decisive factor in competition (identical prices could conceal very different combinations of input factors or institutional settings), and many economic activities are not subject to direct competition.
NOTES 1. This chapter emerged in the context of my work in the DFG-funded research project “From the Chandlerian Business Model to Wintelism” in the Work Regulation Division of the WZB in Berlin. For their helpful suggestions, I would like to thank Reinhard Blomert, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Ulrich Jürgens, Kristine Kern, Thomas Sablowski and the participants in Michael Schumann’s research colloquium at the Sociological Seminar of the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, especially my commentator Ulrich Voskamp.