Collective learning and path plasticity as means to regional economic resilience: the case of Stuttgart

Rüdiger Wink, Laura Kirchner, Florian Koch () and Daniel Speda
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Rüdiger Wink: HTWK Leipzig
Laura Kirchner: HTWK Leipzig
Florian Koch: TIL - Centre Interlangues : texte, image, langage [Dijon] - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE]
Daniel Speda: HTWK Leipzig

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Abstract: This paper links two strands of literature (collective learning and resilience) by looking at experiences with collective learning as precondition of regional economic resilience. Based on a qualitative empirical study, the emergence of collective learning structures in the Stuttgart region after a macroeconomic and structural crisis at the beginning of the 1990s is investigated. This process of building up adaptive capabilities in the region follows a pattern of institutional path plasticity. The relevance of these experiences with adjustment processes and adaptive capabilities for the economic performance during the great recession in 2008-2009 is finally shown by following episodic narratives of interview partners and secondary firm panel results.

Keywords: regional economic resilience; financial crisis; Stuttgart; qualitative empirical study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in International Journal of Learning and Change, 2015, 8 (1), pp.21-41. ⟨10.1504/IJLC.2015.069071⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2015.069071

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