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- McKelvey, Maureen, 1965, et al.
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Governance of Regional Innovation Systems: An Evolutionary Conceptual Model of How Firms Engage
- 2015
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Ingår i: Academy of Management proceedings, Vancouver, Canada. - 0065-0668. ; 2015:2364, s. 1-25
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper draws upon insights from social science, in order to propose a conceptualization of the governance of a regional innovation system. We are specifically interested in ones initiated through public policy and aiming to stimulate the competitiveness of firms through developing new technological knowledge through collaborative research involving different organizations. We are assuming firms choose whether, when and how to collaborate. This paper proposes a conceptual model, which focuses upon the governance processes at the regional level of this translation of knowledge into innovation and entrepreneurship. The underlying argumentation for the model is built from existing research. We interpret that regional innovation governance depends upon capacity building among three heterogeneous organizations – namely university-government-industry. This represents a case of a polycentric, adaptive, complex and self-organizing system, whereby collective action is supported by norms and institutions in order to develop a region resource pool. Hence, our expectation is that our conceptual model will help explain why different outcomes are possible. The concluding section discusses a future research agenda, by going further to explore how to define and analyze the attributes (mechanisms) enabling governance of a regional innovation system as well as to analyze how public policy and firms engage.
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- Stutz, Christian, et al.
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ALIGNING BUSINESS INTERESTS WITH NATIONAL GOALS IN INDUSTRIAL POLICY: The FINNISH CASE, 1952-2014
- 2023
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. - 2151-6561 .- 0065-0668. ; 2023:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- International business (IB) researchers have long studied how multinational companies use political tactics to shape policies in their home and host countries. Yet, this literature has largely ignored the return of industrial policies—i.e., governmental plans and activities to allocate public resources to private firms aligned with national objectives—as a new avenue for political activities. In this article, we redress this oversight from an IB perspective by examining Finnish industrial policy-making concerning export-oriented shipbuilding from 1952 to 2014. Drawing from neo-institutional theory, the empirical findings challenge the idea that the current rise of industrial policy is a temporary triumph of state interventionism over market ideology. Instead, the findings show the persistence of the operation over time although it occasionally took more hidden forms. We identify the industry’s multi-generational political strategy to work with political leaders to legitimize and coordinate industrial policy-making under the influence of multiple institutional pressures (geopolitics, supranational institutions, local society). Our primary contribution is to unpack the corporate political activity nature of industrial policy-making from an IB perspective. Moreover, the study responds to calls for incorporating historical methods in IB scholarship and demonstrates a key methodological potential: Exposing biases in current research paradigms.
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