Knowledge and Space
Volume 1 / 2008 to Volume 19 / 2024
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Geographische Netzwerkforschung
Netzwerke und Geographie stehen in einem reflexiven Verhältnis. Einerseits bedingen räumliche Nähe und geografischer Kontext die Bildung sozialer und materieller Netzwerke, andererseits prägen und verändern di...
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Introduction: Knowledge and Digital Technology
Development happens as a society undergoes structural transformation. Structural change in a society’s culture, institutions, and technologies is driven by new ways of thinking, new knowledge, and innovations....
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Open AccessNetwork Governance at the Margin of the State: Rural Drinking Water Communities in Chile
We focus on the relationship between the network structure of Chilean rural drinking water associations (APRs) and effective governance outcomes regarding the provision of infrastructure and drinking water to ...
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Professions, Proficiency, and Place: An Introduction
The 18th volume of the interdisciplinary series on Knowledge and Space looks at how people learn, create and transfer knowledge within and across social groups, such as professions, scholarly disciplines or co...
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The Place of Civil Society in the Creation of Knowledge
This interdisciplinary volume addresses the relations between civil society and knowledge from a social, institutional, and spatial perspective. As knowledge and civil society are co-constitutive (any voluntar...
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Time Banks as Transient Civic Organizations? Exploring the Dynamics of Decline
Time banks have become a popular type of civic organization constructed to facilitate egalitarian economic exchange through a community-bounded currency. Especially after the recent economic crises in Europe, ...
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The Geography of Giving in the Philanthropic Field
Drawing on the neo-institutional notion of organizational fields, we propose the concept of the philanthropic field to conceptualize the geography of giving and the interrelations of benevolent activities acro...
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Disruption ökonomischer Netze
Pandemien bringen großes Leid, sie schaffen aber auch Chancen für den gesellschaftlichen Wandel. In diesem Beitrag gehe ich der Frage nach, wie disruptiv die Corona-Pandemie für das Netzwerk der Ökonomie ist, ...
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On the Reflexive Relations Between Knowledge, Governance, and Space
Governance is both a contested concept and an increasingly empirical concern. On the one hand, it has become an almost universal and all-encompassing concept, which has attracted scholarly interest from many d...
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Lateral Network Governance
The author of this article goes beyond acknowledging networks as a governance mode to elaborate on the actual forms of governance that convey legitimate and acceptable coordination. He advances the concept of ...
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Drift and Morphosis in Institutional Change: Evidence from the‘Walz’ and Public Tendering in Germany
This chapter explores the dynamic nature of institutions in response to changes in regulations and the institutional context. Seeking to refine the understanding of how and to which extent institutions change ...
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On the Spatiality of Institutions and Knowledge
The relationship between geography and the creation, use, and reproduction of knowledge has been at the core of this book series. The previous twelve volumes have focused, among other topics, on the role that ...
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The Economic Impact of the Universities in the State of Baden-Württemberg
The rise of global competition in a knowledge society and budget cuts in public spending have spurred an interest in the effects of universities on their regional economies. In contrast to the legacy of local ...
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Connectivity in Contiguity: Conventions and Taboos of Imitation in Colocated Networks
Imitation is a key learning mechanism for inventions. What are the conditions that favor learning by imitation? A perspective of social networks focuses on the effect of connectivity on knowledge outcomes. A g...
