Local responses to global technological change - Contrasting restructuring practices in two rural communities in Austria

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 243-252

  Fink, Matthias ^a   Lang, Richard ^a   Harms, Rainer ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disruptive technologies; Institutional analysis; Local development; Restructuring; Social innovation; Theory informed case studies

Indexed keywords

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS; LOCAL DEVELOPMENT; RESTRUCTURING; THEORY INFORMED CASE STUDIES;

RURAL AREAS; TECHNOLOGY;

INNOVATION;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MARKET TRANSITION; POLICY MAKING; RURAL ECONOMY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84871931559     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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