Connecting to Global Production Networks: Challenges for Regional Actors in Northern Norway
Over the past few years, Northern Norway has been perceived as a land of opportunity. Announcements of offshore oil and gas discoveries off the coast of Finnmark have contributed to increased market activity in related sectors like service and construction. However, regional firms continue to score...
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ftjarlp:oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/207 2023-05-15T14:18:43+02:00 Connecting to Global Production Networks: Challenges for Regional Actors in Northern Norway Nilsen, Trond Karlstad, Stig 2016-05-23 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip application/xml https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207 https://doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.207 eng eng University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207/786 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207/787 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207/788 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207/789 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/207 doi:10.17585/arctic.v7.207 Copyright (c) 2016 Arctic Review Arctic Review; Vol 7 No 1 (2016) 2387-4562 path renewal business development path dependency strategic couplings public instruments info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftjarlp https://doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.207 2022-03-24T06:34:42Z Over the past few years, Northern Norway has been perceived as a land of opportunity. Announcements of offshore oil and gas discoveries off the coast of Finnmark have contributed to increased market activity in related sectors like service and construction. However, regional firms continue to score at the bottom of innovation indexes and seldom compete on international markets. Based on indepth interviews with representatives from key businesses in three sectors in Northern Norway, we examine the bottlenecks that have prevented these firms from gaining new market positions through the interplay of these regional firms and agencies with the Global Production Network (GPN). We adopt the concept of ‘‘strategic coupling’’ and explore whether an actor approach can contribute to an improved understanding of this relationship. The paper demonstrates that regional strategies and public policy differ between the sectors. Public policy is important for regional firms within the petroleum sector. However, the funds available for regional firms continue to be limited due to the size and relevance of the measures. In the construction sector, public policy instruments are important, but not sufficiently adapted to the challenges these firms face. While the petroleum sector receives support and backing from regional agencies in order to connect to GPN, the wind power sector is actively hindered by the same agencies. The former have the opportunity to take part in new regional path creation; the latter have experienced a lack of strategic cooperation and face the risk of reducing strategic couplings to GPN, leading to path dependent processes that lock these firms into traditional and low-tech sectors.(Published: May 2016)Citation: T. Nilsen and S. Karlstad. “Connecting to Global Production Networks: Challenges for Regional Actors in Northern Norway.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2016, pp. 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.207 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Finnmark Northern Norway Finnmark Arctic Review on Law and Politics Arctic Karlstad ENVELOPE(18.511,18.511,68.793,68.793) Norway Arctic Review on Law and Politics 7 0 |
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Over the past few years, Northern Norway has been perceived as a land of opportunity. Announcements of offshore oil and gas discoveries off the coast of Finnmark have contributed to increased market activity in related sectors like service and construction. However, regional firms continue to score at the bottom of innovation indexes and seldom compete on international markets. Based on indepth interviews with representatives from key businesses in three sectors in Northern Norway, we examine the bottlenecks that have prevented these firms from gaining new market positions through the interplay of these regional firms and agencies with the Global Production Network (GPN). We adopt the concept of ‘‘strategic coupling’’ and explore whether an actor approach can contribute to an improved understanding of this relationship. The paper demonstrates that regional strategies and public policy differ between the sectors. Public policy is important for regional firms within the petroleum sector. However, the funds available for regional firms continue to be limited due to the size and relevance of the measures. In the construction sector, public policy instruments are important, but not sufficiently adapted to the challenges these firms face. While the petroleum sector receives support and backing from regional agencies in order to connect to GPN, the wind power sector is actively hindered by the same agencies. The former have the opportunity to take part in new regional path creation; the latter have experienced a lack of strategic cooperation and face the risk of reducing strategic couplings to GPN, leading to path dependent processes that lock these firms into traditional and low-tech sectors.(Published: May 2016)Citation: T. Nilsen and S. Karlstad. “Connecting to Global Production Networks: Challenges for Regional Actors in Northern Norway.” Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2016, pp. 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.207 |
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