Digital platform businesses primarily utilise on-call contingent workers, using their own tools
and equipment, to perform the productive work associated with the supplied service. The …

This article argues that in its “canonical” form, the path dependence model, with its core
concept of lock-in, affords a restrictive and narrowly applicable account of regional and local …

In recent years, economic geographers have seized on the concepts of 'path
dependence'and 'lock-in'as key ingredients in constructing an evolutionary approach to their …

This article critically reviews the idea that regional prosperity and growth are heavily
dependent on regional industry networks. In contrast with this view, a cluster approach is …

Within economic geography and industrial economics, interest in the concept of tacit
knowledge has grown steadily in recent years. Nelson and Winter helped revive this interest …

For almost two decades, economic geography has become increasingly populated with texts
concerned with the ways in which social interactions between economic agents have …

Since the notion of path dependence entered the economics lexicon in the 1980s and early
1990s, particularly through the work of Paul David on the economic history of technology …

In this paper we argue that evolutionary economic geography and particularly the concept of
path dependence provide a theoretical framework within which to understand the different …

This article uses a study of the Swiss mechanical watch industry to build theory about how a
legacy technology, instead of being supplanted by a new dominant design as current theory …

Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award! Since the early 1980s,
the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy …