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This handbook provides academics, researchers, and advanced students in various disciplines - such as business, economics and geography - with an overview of the role of diversity in modern advanced economies.
Table des matières
- Introducing the topic of diversity: creativity, knowledge production, innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth
- Diversity and place development: theory development
- 1: Bart Nooteboom: Cognitive distance, diversity, focus, and trust in geography
- 2: Ron Boschma: Designing smart specialization policy: relatedness, unrelatedness, or what?
- 3: David B. Audretsch: Democracy and the strategic management of place
- 4: Philip Cooke: Translating specialist versus diversified business models into spatial planning? Dark limitations and lighter inspirations
- Workforce and labour market diversity
- 5: Mikaela Backman and Stephan Brunow: Age diversity in firms and its relation to wages: evidence from Germany
- 6: Christian R. Østergaard and Bram Timmermans: Workplace diversity and innovation performance: current state of affairs and future directions
- 7: Oskar Jost, Holger Seibert, and Mirko Wesling: 'Demographic Tailwind' from East Germany? How apprenticeship opportunities of foreign youth in West Germany depend on East German apprentices
- 8: Tom Broekel, Rune Dahl Fitjar, and Silje Haus-Reve: Diversity, complexity, or the relatedness of occupations: what drives industrial and regional development?
- Diversity and entrepreneurship
- 9: Ross Brown and Augusto Rocha: Analysing diversity in entrepreneurial finance across entrepreneurial ecosystems
- 10: Alessandra Colombelli, Anna D'Ambrosio, and Valentina Meliciani: Explaining spatial diversity in entrepreneurship: the role of knowledge and cultural diversity
- 11: Julian Waters-Lynch and Sam Tavassoli: Collaborative work spaces, diversity, and regional entrepreneurship growth: a conceptual review
- 12: Ram Mudambi and Agnieszka Nowinska: Triggered explorers and entrepreneurial embedded expanders: multiple paths to spatial expansion by service intermediaries
- Regional diversity, innovation, and productivity
- 13: Annekatrin Niebuhr and Jan Cornelius Peters: Regional cultural diversity and firm innovation - important effects of heterogeneity or merely sorting?
- 14: Roberto Basile, Gloria Cicerone: Diversity and spatial productivity growth
- 15: Daniël Speldekamp, Joris Knoben, and Frank van Oort: More ways to Rome: the agglomeration and firm productivity relationship through a configurational lens
- 16: Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Ganau: Spatial diversity, firm heterogeneity, and economic performance
A propos de l'auteur
Martin Andersson is Professor of Industrial Economics at Blekinge Institute of Technology and Professor of Innovation Studies at CIRCLE, Lund University. He is also at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum in Stockholm and affiliated researcher to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). His research focuses on industrial dynamics, innovation, and urban and regional economics.
Charlie Karlsson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona.
Sofia Wixe is Associate Professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School and researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE).
Résumé
This handbook provides academics, researchers, and advanced students in various disciplines - such as business, economics and geography - with an overview of the role of diversity in modern advanced economies.
