This handbook provides academics, researchers, and advanced students in various disciplines - such as business, economics and geography - with an overview of the role of diversity in modern advanced economies.
The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics provides academics, researchers, and advanced students in various disciplines - such as business, economics, and geography - with an overview of the role of diversity in modern advanced economies. For a long time, research from different areas has suggested that diversity is a critical factor in creativity, knowledge generation, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the level of organizations, cities, regions, and whole countries.
The chapters in this handbook deal with some of these issues in different ways and add to the existing knowledge on the role of diversity for various economic phenomena. The 16 chapters are organized into the following sections: 1) Diversity and place development: theory and policy development, 2) Workforce and labour market diversity, 3) Diversity and entrepreneurship, and 4) Regional diversity, innovation, and productivity. Furthermore, the introductory chapter of the book provides an overview of some of the main arguments on diversity in theoretical as well as empirical literature that puts the chapter contributions in context.
Introducing the topic of diversity: creativity, knowledge production,
innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth
Diversity and place development: theory development
1: Bart Nooteboom: Cognitive distance, diversity, focus, and trust in
geography
2: Ron Boschma: Designing smart specialization policy: relatedness,
unrelatedness, or what?
3: David B. Audretsch: Democracy and the strategic management of place
4: Philip Cooke: Translating specialist versus diversified business models
into spatial planning? Dark limitations and lighter inspirations
Workforce and labour market diversity
5: Mikaela Backman and Stephan Brunow: Age diversity in firms and its
relation to wages: evidence from Germany
6: Christian R. Ųstergaard and Bram Timmermans: Workplace diversity and
innovation performance: current state of affairs and future directions
7: Oskar Jost, Holger Seibert, and Mirko Wesling: 'Demographic Tailwind' from
East Germany? How apprenticeship opportunities of foreign youth in West
Germany depend on East German apprentices
8: Tom Broekel, Rune Dahl Fitjar, and Silje Haus-Reve: Diversity, complexity,
or the relatedness of occupations: what drives industrial and regional
development?
Diversity and entrepreneurship
9: Ross Brown and Augusto Rocha: Analysing diversity in entrepreneurial
finance across entrepreneurial ecosystems
10: Alessandra Colombelli, Anna D'Ambrosio, and Valentina Meliciani:
Explaining spatial diversity in entrepreneurship: the role of knowledge and
cultural diversity
11: Julian Waters-Lynch and Sam Tavassoli: Collaborative work spaces,
diversity, and regional entrepreneurship growth: a conceptual review
12: Ram Mudambi and Agnieszka Nowinska: Triggered explorers and
entrepreneurial embedded expanders: multiple paths to spatial expansion by
service intermediaries
Regional diversity, innovation, and productivity
13: Annekatrin Niebuhr and Jan Cornelius Peters: Regional cultural diversity
and firm innovation - important effects of heterogeneity or merely sorting?
14: Roberto Basile, Gloria Cicerone: Diversity and spatial productivity
growth
15: Daniėl Speldekamp, Joris Knoben, and Frank van Oort: More ways to Rome:
the agglomeration and firm productivity relationship through a
configurational lens
16: Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Ganau: Spatial diversity, firm
heterogeneity, and economic performance
Martin Andersson is Professor of Industrial Economics at Blekinge Institute of Technology and Professor of Innovation Studies at CIRCLE, Lund University. He is also at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum in Stockholm and affiliated researcher to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). His research focuses on industrial dynamics, innovation, and urban and regional economics.
Charlie Karlsson is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Jƶnkƶping International Business School, Jƶnkƶping and Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona.
Sofia Wixe is Associate Professor of Economics at Jƶnkƶping International Business School and researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE).
