FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, 5-9 April 2017
Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies Organisers: Ron Boschma (Utrecht University) Canfei He (Peking University) and Godfrey Yeung (National University of Singapore) We invite papers that addresses the theme of 'Evolutionary Economic Geography in Emerging and Developing Economies'. Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) has made significant inroad in the economic geography literature through examining three specific phenomena and processes: clustering as evolutionary process (entry and exit patterns of firms), related variety and regional growth, and regional branching. Developed countries are normally used as empirical cases to illustrate these processes. As already outlined by Boschma and Capone (2015, Research Policy), the varieties of capitalism (liberal versus coordinated market economies) could have a significant impact on the patterns of diversification in (un)related activities. With different institutional environment, the emerging and developing economies could provide interesting insights for some of the well-estimated hypotheses outlined in the EEG. Will the long-standing hypotheses of EEG hold for the emerging and developing economies? Will some of these explanatory variables play different roles in the evolutionary processes in regional development of emerging and developing economies? What may be the potential theoretical contributions to the EEG? We encourage empirically or theoretically informed paper submissions that reflect on the domains of institutions and institutional environment, and its dynamic analysis. Research questions and issues could include (but are not limited to): Issues: * To what extent the different institutional environment in emerging and developing economies matter for the evolutionary processes and the subsequent clustering of firms? * To what extent the technical change and innovation (through localized learning), related and unrelated varieties contribute to the regional development in emerging and developing economies? * Will the product relatedness play different roles in the regional branching of emerging and developing economies? Are there specific patterns in the spatial evolution of industries, especially how economic actors and social institutions may or may not be able to break out of the existing lock-in through diversification of its products in these economies? * What may be the potential theoretical implication for complexity and path dependency theories? * The wider theoretical and methodological issues between firm-based evolutionary theories of economic change (c.f., Nelson & Winter, 1982) in the EEG (and its criticisms on the excessive focus on micro-scale actors and processes) and the potential importance of institutions, including social institutions and their wider power relations. Please send expressions of interests/queries and abstracts (of not more than 250 words) to Godfrey Yeung (geoy...@nus.edu.sg) by 27 October 2016. The AAG website (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/) provides more information about the annual meeting. ____________________________________________________________________________ Godfrey YEUNG (PhD), Associate Professor of Economic Geography Department of Geography National University of Singapore 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Tel: +65-6516 7374 (direct line) Fax: +65-6777 3091 E-mail: geoy...@nus.edu.sg<mailto:geoy...@nus.edu.sg> Web: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoykyg/ Standing Committee member, GPN@NUS: http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/ Associate Editor, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9493 Research group: Politics, Economies, and Space (PEAS): http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/geog/research/peas.html Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.
