Pathways to diversification

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dc.contributor.advisorJenkins, Mark
dc.contributor.authorAl Hashemi, Hamed
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-31T12:36:03Z
dc.date.available2017-03-31T12:36:03Z
dc.date.issued2016-09
dc.description.abstractA fundamental research question in regional economic development, is why some regions are able to diversify into new products and industries, while others continue to face challenges in diversification? This doctorate research explores the different pathways to diversification. It follows the three-stage modular structure of DBA for Cranfield School of Management. This thesis consists of a systematic literature review, a single qualitative case study on UAE, and a research synthesis of published cases on Singapore, Norway and UAE. The linking document provides a summary of the three projects and consolidates findings and contributions into a path creation model that provides new understanding on the pathways to regional diversifications. This research integrates existing theoretical foundations of evolutionary economic geography, institutional economic geography, path dependence, industry relatedness, economic complexity, and path creation into a unified conceptual path creation model. It generates propositions, builds a framework and develops a matrix for path creation that integrate context, actors, factors, mechanisms and outcomes shaping regional diversification. It finds that in the context of path dependence and existing conditions of a region, economic actors undertake strategic measures to influence the institutional capabilities to accumulate knowledge and trigger indigenous creation, anchoring, branching, and clustering diversification mechanisms to create complex varieties of related and unrelated diversification outcomes. The institutional collaboration capabilities are found to be instrumental in accumulating knowledge and determining the relatedness and complexity of diversification outcomes. This research further provides a set of integrated platform strategies to guide policy-makers on setting up the pathways to regional diversification.en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11694
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCranfield Universityen_UK
dc.rights© Cranfield University, 2016. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.en_UK
dc.subjectEconomic Diversificationen_UK
dc.subjectPath Creationen_UK
dc.subjectPath Dependenceen_UK
dc.subjectRelated Varietyen_UK
dc.subjectUnrelated Varietyen_UK
dc.subjectEconomic Complexityen_UK
dc.subjectInstitutional Capabilitiesen_UK
dc.subjectInstitutional Collaborationen_UK
dc.subjectRegional Developmenten_UK
dc.subjectEvolutionary Economic Geographyen_UK
dc.subjectInstitutional Economic Geographyen_UK
dc.titlePathways to diversificationen_UK
dc.typeThesis or dissertationen_UK
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_UK
dc.type.qualificationnameDBAen_UK

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