フジワラ　ナオキ   藤原　直樹    所属   追手門学院大学  地域創造学部 地域創造学科    追手門学院大学  大学院　経営・経済研究科    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2025/11/16
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Peripheral Path Creation through Institutional Agency: Strategic Governance of Global Linkages in a Regional Industrial Cluster
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	Springer
総ページ数	20
担当区分	筆頭著者
著者・共著者	Naoki Fujiwara
概要	This study investigated how peripheral regions can generate new industrial devel- opment paths through strategic orchestration of institutional entrepreneurship and external linkages. Bridging the perspectives of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global production networks (GPN), it highlights how local institutional actors, particularly subnational governments and cluster organizations mobilize endogenous capabilities to couple with global networks in ways that enable unrelated formation of a cosmetics industry cluster in Karatsu City, Japan, which was coordi- nated by the Japan Cosmetic Center, a locally led platform for regional innovation. Based on a qualitative analysis of policy documents and semi-structured interviews, I show how multilevel governance and international cluster engagement foster cross-border knowledge transfer, trust-based partnerships, and organizational learn- how strategic coupling can be institutionally engineered even in peripheral regions, enabling place-based actors to overcome structural disadvantages. By theorizing peripheral path creation as a cumulative process of capability formation embedded in institutional contexts, this study advances the integration of the EEG and GPN production systems.