New perspectives on restructuring of old industrial areas in China: A critical review and research agenda

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• 作者：Xiaohui Hu ; Robert Hassink
• 关键词：evolutionary economic Geography ; economic restructuring ; old industrial areas ; research agenda ; China
• 刊名：Chinese Geographical Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：1
• 页码：110-122
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• 刊物主题：Geography, general;
• 出版者：Science Press
• ISSN：1993-064X
• 卷排序：27

文摘

The restructuring of old industrial areas has been receiving much attention in regional development studies both in industrialized and emerging economies. Although ample Chinese-speaking studies have been published on the topic, most of them suffer from paying too little attention to dynamic multi-scalar interactions between firms, institutions, policies and places, as well as a too strong focus on individual cases. They also mostly disregard internationally recognized concepts and theories in the field. Based on these internationally recognized modern concepts, this paper therefore puts forward some potential avenues for future research on the evolution of old industrial areas in China, which should overcome existing deficits in the Chinese-speaking literature. It suggests that some evolutionary economic geography concepts such as path dependence, lock-in, path creation, relatedness, as well as multi-scalar institutional and leadership approaches have useful potentials to better understand the evolutionary processes and mechanisms of old industrial areas in China.