Format:
1 Online-Ressource (276 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9783030951856
Series Statement:
Economic Geography Series
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introducing Relevance, Research Questions, and Structure of This Study -- 1.1 Empirical and Conceptual Relevance of the Study: Six Reasons for Reading This Book -- 1.2 Central Research Interest and Derivation of Research Questions -- 1.3 Structure of This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Defining the Research Desiderates: Economic Geography, Practice Theories, and Practice Transfer -- 2.1 Defining Skill Formation Practices as a Research Object -- 2.1.1 Current State of Research: Transfer of Technical Vocational Education and Training in German MNEs -- 2.1.2 "Skill" in Skill Formation Practices -- 2.1.3 Practices to Develop Skills "Purposefully" -- 2.2 Research Desiderate Practice Transfer in Economic Geography -- 2.2.1 Shifting the Perspective from Knowledge Transfer to Practice Transfer -- 2.2.2 Practice Transfer in Economic Geography -- 2.2.3 The Research Field Practice Transfer -- 2.2.4 Critical Reassessment of Institutional Distance as the Explanation for the Difficulty of Transferring Practices -- 2.2.5 Distance as an Interactional Effect and a Sociocultural and Time-Spatial Tension -- 2.2.6 Interim Conclusion -- 2.3 Introducing Practice Thinking: Practice Theories' Common Ground -- 2.3.1 Situating a Practice Theoretical View in Economic Geography -- 2.3.2 The Diverse "Family" of Practice Theories -- 2.3.3 Practice Versus Theory, Action Versus Structure: The Ontological Alternative -- 2.3.4 Defining Practices as Nexuses of Activities -- 2.4 Research Desiderate Practice Transfer in Practice Theories -- 2.5 Summary of the Research Desiderates -- References -- Chapter 3: Discussing the Methodological Approach -- 3.1 Theorizing with Practice Theories-An Epistemological Approximation -- 3.2 Designing the Research
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3.2.1 Professional Positionality: The Organizational Context -- 3.2.2 Selected Research Regions: Geographical Scope of the Study -- 3.2.3 Sampling Criteria for MNEs -- 3.2.4 Sampling of Interviewees Outside of Companies -- 3.2.5 Overview of Generated Data -- 3.2.6 Using Semi-Structured Expert Interviews as a Method to Generate Data About Skill Formation Practices in MNEs -- 3.2.7 Capturing the Material Element of Skill Formation Practices -- 3.2.8 Summary: Implications of the Research Design for Theorizing -- 3.3 Generating the Data -- 3.3.1 Contacting of Interview Partners: Field Access -- 3.3.2 Differential Logical Positionality -- 3.3.3 Research-Evoked Positionality -- 3.3.4 Summary: Implications of the Data Generation for Theorizing -- 3.4 Analyzing the Data -- 3.4.1 First Phase: Exploring Different Lines of Inquiry -- 3.4.2 Second Phase: Theorizing in Dialogue with the Data and Practice Theoretical Thinking -- 3.4.3 Third Phase: Systematically Analyzing the Data with the Previously Established Conceptual Framework -- 3.4.4 Summary: Implications of the Data Analysis for Theorizing -- References -- Chapter 4: Developing a Practice Theoretical Approach to Practice Transfer Across Distance and Between Territories -- 4.1 Three Elements of a Practice -- 4.2 Practices "Travel" by Means of Their Elements -- 4.3 Transferring Practices: Power in Practice Transfer -- 4.4 MNEs as Media for Practice Transfer -- 4.5 Origin and Destination Contexts as "Fabrics of Interrelated Practices" -- 4.6 Degree of Complexity of Practices -- 4.7 Transfer Resistance: A Practice Theoretical Notion of Relational Distance -- 4.8 The Role of Territorial Institutions in the Destination Fabric of Interrelated Practices -- 4.9 Reflecting on the Conceptual Contributions of This Study -- References
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Chapter 5: Comparing Transfer Resistances of Three Skill Formation Practices to the Chinese, Indian, and Mexican Research Regions -- 5.1 Comparing the Degrees of Complexity of the Three Skill Formation Practices -- 5.1.1 Onboarding -- 5.1.2 Shop Floor Inducting -- 5.1.3 Dual Apprenticeship Training -- 5.1.4 Three Degrees of Complexity in Comparison -- 5.2 Fitting the Practices into the Destination Fabrics: Availability/Integrability and Territorial Institutions -- 5.2.1 Transferring Onboarding -- 5.2.2 Transferring Shop Floor Inducting -- 5.2.3 Transferring Dual Apprenticeship Training -- 5.3 Comparing the Transfer Resistances of Three Skill Formation Practices Between Three Research Regions -- 5.4 Reflecting on the Empirical Contributions of This Study -- 5.4.1 Asking Two Additional Questions -- References -- Chapter 6: Threading Everything Together: Conclusion -- 6.1 Answering the Four Research Questions: A Summary -- 6.2 Final Reflections -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wiemann, Judith Geographies of Practice Transfer Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783030951849
Language:
English
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