A Social Psychological Perspective on the Forming of Path Dependence in Old Industrial Regions -the Case of Shanxi Province in China1/PERSPECTIVE SOCIALE ET PSYCHOLOGIQUE SUR LA FORMATION DE LA VOIE DE DEPENDANCE DANS LES VIEILLES REGIONS INDUSTRIELLES -CAS DE LA PROVINCE DU SHANXI EN CHINE
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Abstract: Among so many research literatures in industrial cluster, there lacks still exploration to the possible risks of industrial cluster. Path dependency, which is absolutely not only a phenomenon in technological development, existing not only in an organization but also in the process of cluster development, has been neglected at certain degree in developing regional cluster. The aim of the paper is to address the question of how the micro foundation of path dependence can be explained through a social psychological perspective. By referring to the two concepts from social psychology, selective attention and identity, this paper illustrates the psychological factors leading to the forming of path dependence in industrial cluster. Key words: industrial cluster, path dependency, regional identity, selective attention, social psychology Resume: Parmi de nombreux documents de recherches sur le bloc industriel, il manque encore des explorations sur les risques possibles du bloc industriel. La voie de dependance, qui n'est pas seulement un phenomene dans le developpement technologique, existant non seulement dans une organisation mais aussi dans le processus du developpement du bloc, a ete negligee dans certaines mesures dans le developpement du bloc industriel regional. L'objectif de cet article est d' exposer comment la micro-fondation de la voie de dependance peut etre expliquee dans une perspective sociale et psychologique. Se referant a deux concepts de la psychologie sociale -attention selective et identite, cet article illustre les facteurs psychologiques qui conduisent a la formation de la voie de dependance dans la bloc industriel. Mots-Cles: bloc industriel, voie de dependance, identite regionale, attention selective, psychologie sociale We should not take it for granted that regional clusters will always going along a well designed plan to stimulate the development of local region to be innovative and competitive. There are also risks in the development of regional cluster, such as 'lock-in' resulted from path dependence (Grabher, 1993). Regional cluster, as the interactive results from economy and society, has a typical character of social embeddedness in its development. Though recently explanations to the dynamics of regional clusters have increasingly turned from 'economic' reasons, such as external economies of scale, to 'social-cultural' reasons (Regional Clusters in Europe), the micro-foundation of path dependence has been largely neglected (Heffernan, 2003). Especially clear evidence from many formerly successful but specialized old industrial areas were ignored in much of the cluster discourse (Chapman, 2005). Among the few literatures from the perspective of sociology, Seri (2003) pointed that selective attention is an important reason for the stagnation of regional development and path dependence. Some other concepts from social science were also introduced recently to the research of industrial cluster. For example, organizational identification is thought to be one of the influential factors to the development of regional cluster (Sammarra A. & Biggiero L., 2001). As a response to Storper's initiative of re-focusing the investigation of regional industrial districts from the traditional structuralist and macro-founded approach to the behavioral basis of inter-firm relations, this paper would like to make an exploration about the risk in the development of regional cluster as a point of departure, instead of exploiting further the positive sides of cluster from a macro perspective. In view of the social embeddedness of regional cluster, it would be a contribution from the perspective of social psychology to analyze the limitation and risk especially the path dependence of regional cluster. 1. PATH DEPENDENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL CLUSTER 1.1 Definition of path dependence The concept of path dependence can be tracked back to David's illustration of the suboptimal of keyboard technology (David, 1984). …
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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