Regional Resilience: An Agency Perspective

By G. Bristow, A. Healy. Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience, 2014

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Bristow G. and Healy A. Regional resilience: an agency perspective, Regional Studies. This paper argues that in the nascent theorizing and empirical study of regional economic resilience, the role of human agency has been under-explored to date. In seeking to address this gap, the paper focuses on three key questions: why agency is important in resilience; how agents are organized in complex, regional economies and how they might act; and finally, what an agency perspective means for how resilience might be conceptualized and analysed empirically. It is argued that including the human factor in resilience thinking ultimately means that the role of place and context must assume greater significance.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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In Building and Construction

1. Markus Grillitsch

In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. Healy
2. G. Bristow
3. Markku Sotarauta
4. Markus Grillitsch
5. Henry S. C. Yeung

In General Health Professions

1. A. Healy
2. G. Bristow

Citations in the corpus

• Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces (2020, background): “The emergence of regional growth paths is typically not associated with only one actor (exceptions may prove the rule, such as the role of Ingvar Kamprad in growing IKEA in Älmhult, Sweden) but the interplay of many (Dawley, 2014; Bristow and Healy, 2014).”
• Innovation and regional economic resilience: an exploratory analysis (2018, background): “This has prompted increasing scholarly interest in the notion of regional economic resilience—the ability of regions to resist and/or recover quickly from shocks —as well as the factors influencing it (Bristow and Healy 2014; Martin and Sunley 2015; Capello et al. 2015; Sensier et al. 2016).”