Singaporees Largest Companies 1819-2015: A Case Study of Path Dependence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lay Hong Tan
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence

Path Dependence and the Modernisation of Agriculture: A Case Study of Aragon, 1955–85

Rural History ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERNESTO CLAR ◽  
VICENTE PINILLA
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Transformation ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
Macro Variables

AbstractThis paper explains how technological developments and changes in production encouraged and drove the processes of agricultural modernisation that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, taking the region of Aragon in north eastern Spain as a case study. The main agricultural macro-variables reveal a surge in output, coincident with a far-reaching restructuring of production, in which livestock and animal feeds played a key role. The relative success of this high speed agricultural transformation was largely due to technological progress and the development of Aragon's trade links before 1936. Meanwhile, the earlier development of irrigation schemes, the capitalisation of farms and experimentation with different seed varieties allowed the region to adapt quickly to the new Green Revolution technologies that came to the fore after 1950. At the same time, established trade links allowed a swift transition to livestock and related produce destined for fast developing agro-industrial regions, like Catalonia and Valencia. As in other countries, technological and trade path dependency also explain the polarisation of agricultural development within Aragon itself, and in particular the success of the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca in contrast to failure and depopulation in Teruel. The experience of Aragon may thus be useful to understand the dynamics of other less developed regions currently in the throes of transformation.

Exploring spatial path dependence in industrial space with big data: A case study of Beijing

Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 102975
Author(s):  
Zhenshan Yang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Dawei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Industrial Space

Field burning practices in a southern region of Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-447
Author(s):  
Roberto Birch Gonçalves ◽  
Eric Charles Henri Dorion ◽  
Cristine Hermann Nodari ◽  
Fernanda Lazzari ◽  
Pelayo Munhoz Olea
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Path Dependent Process ◽  
Field Burning

Purpose – The practice of field burning has been used for many years in the south regions of Brazil as an ideal way to maintain pastures. The purpose of this paper is to understand if such activity is logically explicable or if it is the result of a cultural reality, being “prisoner” of this technique because of path dependence, within the paradigm of the path dependence theory. Design/methodology/approach – This present research is exploratory. The use of cases study was the most appropriate technique to explore the field burning practices and their impact in this specific region of Brazil, while describing its context, for which limits are not clearly defined. Thus, this research carries out a multi-case study that provides a greater perception than a single case and has an identical methodological structure. Findings – This paper analyzed the reasons why the producers insist with the procedure and identified these reasons are not merely economical. The study demonstrates a clear path dependent process and it became obvious that once the technique is part of the family use history, it anchors a strong conviction that field burning is actually the best technique to be used for land maintenance. Research limitations/implications – This work suggests a need for other specific researches to substantially complement field burning practices to other phenomenon. Practical implications – The fact that alternative techniques are rejected, giving priority to field burning, it may suggest that other situations and practices may be tied to inadequate or less profitable technologies as well (milk, confined raising, pasturing). The study raises the question on the validity of such practice as a paradigm of reason and pragmatism, or as a “Platoons Cavern” in which they are “trapped” in their decision process developed over time. Originality/value – Presence and implications of environmental laws, which tend to be observed by the producers much more because they fear punishment than because they really understand the benefits of its application; showing the government’s failure in teaching and informing the producers about environmental laws.

scholarly journals Path Dependence in Settlement Processes: Explaining Settlement in Northern Ireland

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ruane ◽  
Jennifer Todd
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Power Perception ◽  
The Impact

The recent literature on path dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article identifies path dependent patterns of conflict embedded in long-term processes of political development whose change may interrupt these patterns. It highlights the importance of long-term state trajectories in constituting and reproducing these patterns, the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change and the impact of wider geopolitical processes in strengthening these. It shows how and why factors such as power, perception, networks and institutions vary in their impact on conflict and explains when they work together to produce settlement.

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