Anmerkungen:
In: Chapter prepared for the edited book by Tim Vorley and Nick Williams (eds), Creating resilient economies: entrepreneurship, growth and development in uncertain times, Edward Elgar, Forthcoming
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 26, 2016 erstellt
Beschreibung:
One of the most intriguing questions in economic geography is why it is that some regional economies manage to renew themselves, whereas others remain locked in decline. In addition to evolutionary concepts, the idea of resilience is derived from ecology, psychology and disaster studies to tackle this question. After a strong critique of the regional resilience concept in 2010 pointing at some fundamental shortcomings, a burgeoning conceptual and empirical literature on regional resilience has emerged. This chapter therefore aims at revisiting the early critique on the basis of a review of recent literature. It concludes that although most critique has been taken seriously, other, new challenges have recently emerged