A Critical Realist Approach to Evolutionary Path Dependence: The Role of Counterurbanite Entrepreneurs in Tourism Regions of Rural Newfoundland

• Main Author: Shannon, Meghan
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2018
• Subjects: Rural; Path Dependence; Evolutionary Economic Geography; Newfoundland; Tourism; Canada; Steen; Karlsen; Trinity Bight
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13054

Path dependence has emerged as an approach to understanding economic decline in peripheral areas, consisting predominantly of space-based economic activities. Evolutionary economic geography is one lens through which transitioning path dependent locales, of industrial homogeneity, can be critically...