scholarly journals Path dependence and path plasticity: textile cities in the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Vissers ◽  
Ben Dankbaar
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Dutch Cities

AbstractConcentrating on three Dutch cities that once had an important textile industry, this study discusses the reasons for the decline of the industry and the responses by firms and other relevant actors. Reasons and responses differed between cities. Therefore, general explanations of the decline of the Dutch textile industry must be supplemented with city-specific accounts. We do not deny that the industry had to deal with path dependence, and lock-in was looming large, but we argue that the demise of the textile industry was not inevitable. The notion of path plasticity helps to direct attention to options that could have been chosen.

Path Dependence and QWERTY's Lock-In: Toward a Veblenian Interpretation

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hall ◽  
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa ◽  
Jutta Günther
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
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Eco-Innovation and Transitions

2009 ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
René Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Transition Management ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Development Network ◽  
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- This paper is aimed at examining the scholarship on system innovation and societal transformation for sustainable development, which today is known as "transition management". In theoretical terms, the approach of transition management relies on markets, guidance in the form of goals and visions of sustainable development, network management with an element of self-organisation. Transition management could be viewed as "evolutionary governance" as it is concerned with the functioning of the variation-selection-retention process: creating variety informed by visions of the sustainability, shaping new paths and reflexively adapting existing institutional frameworks and regimes. It is a model for escaping lock-in and moving towards solutions offering multiple benefits, not just for users but also for society as a whole. It is not a megalomaniac attempt to control the future but an attempt to insert normative goals into evolutionary processes in a reflexive manner. The multilevel perspective of change and the model of goal-oriented modulation and reflexive governance, on which transition management is based, are described. Experiences with transition management in the Netherlands are described too, as well as the international debate on transition management as a model of governance for sustainable development.Keywords: eco-innovation, transition, reflexive governance, multi-level change, the NetherlandsJEL classification: B52; Q50Parole chiave: governance ambientale; fallimenti del mercato; esternalitŕ; beni pubblici; economia del benessere; economia istituzionale.

Path Dependence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Hegmon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
General Level ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Difficult Decision ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Historical Sequences ◽  
Lock In

Path dependence concepts, thus far, have seen little application in archaeology, but they have great potential. At a general level, these concepts provide tools for theorizing historical sequences, such as patterns of settlement on a landscape and divergent historical traditions. Potential applications include issues of historical contingency in the late Rio Grande, settlement in the Mesa Verde region, and divergent trajectories in the post-Chaco period. Specific concepts from path dependence theory, including lock-in and critical junctures, are illustrated by an analysis of the growth of Hohokam irrigation, which exhibited a path-dependent trajectory. As archaeological study of path dependence builds awareness of the importance of decision-making on the future, it contributes to difficult decision-making in today’s world.

Carceral lock-in: How organizational conditions stymie the development of justice alternatives in a rape crisis center

2020 ◽  
pp. 136248062097178
Author(s):  
Benjamin R Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Rape Crisis Center ◽  
Criminal Legal System ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Depth Interviews

Many perpetrators of sexual violence are themselves victims of similar crimes. Such “complex victims” do not fit neatly into the dichotomous categories of victim and perpetrator essential to the functioning of the adversarial criminal-legal system. How anti-rape activists attempt to incorporate complex victims into their work illustrates challenges they experience when wrestling with the carceral state more broadly. In this article, I draw on 32 months of participant observation and 40 in-depth interviews to show how organizational conditions—departmental silos and physical infrastructure—prevent activists’ treatment of complex victims. Building on the concept of path dependence from organization theory, I argue that carceral understandings of harm become “locked-in” despite activists’ anti-carceral attitudes. This article identifies barriers to the treatment of complex victims, further explains feminist activists’ simultaneously contentious and coalitional relationship with the carceral state, and introduces the concept of carceral lock-in to help understand impediments to justice alternatives.

Sprayed to Death: Path Dependence, Lock-in and Pest Control Strategies

1996 ◽  
Vol 106 (436) ◽  
pp. 521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Cowan ◽  
Philip Gunby
Keyword(s):  
Pest Control ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
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Chronic Instability and the Limits of Path Dependence

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 976-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Chronic Instability ◽  
Rapid Succession ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
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Historical institutionalism challenged older forms of comparative historical analysis by moving away from purely structural explanations of historical outcomes. Instead it posited that there were critical junctures in which actors chose between institutional alternatives, which in turn led to path dependence. I examine a phenomenon neglected both by historical institutionalism and older forms of historical analysis—chronic instability. Instead of institutional lock-in, some junctures lead to periods of instability in which a series of regimes replace each other in rapid succession. Three different causal mechanisms that routinely contribute to chronic instability—external shocks, changing configurations of actors, and disjuncture between the logic of change and mechanisms of reproduction—are explored in depth. The plausibility of the theory is illustrated by an examination of regime instability in Germany from the collapse of the Empire in 1918 through the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949.

scholarly journals Political Participation and Civic Community of Ethnic Minorities in Four Cities in the Netherlands

Politics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja van Heelsum
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dutch Cities

In this article, the political participation of Turkish, Surinamese and Moroccan immigrants in four cities in the Netherlands is related to the civic community of these groups. The usefulness of Robert Putnam's civic community perspective is tested for the immigrant communities in Dutch cities in the Netherlands. The relationship between the networks in the migrant communities and political participation found in earlier research can partly explain the differences between the ethnic groups and between the cities, but some additional explanatory factors are suggested.

scholarly journals The development of textile industry in Shtip

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Silvana Zhezhova ◽  
Sonja Jordeva ◽  
Sashka Golomeova-Longurova ◽  
Stefan Maksimov ◽  
Vanga Dimitrijeva-Kuzmanoska
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Production System ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The City

The city of Shtip is the main garment production center in the Eastern part of the Republic of North Macedonia. The textile industry participates with 70% in the total achievements of the industry in the Municipality. There are over 60 companies for production of clothes in Shtip, and among their most important partners are Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Most of the clothing companies are organized as small or medium enterprises for production of casual clothes such as shirts, blouses, etc., which operate on the basis of the "LON" (LOHN) production system.

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