When history does not matter? The rise of Quebec’s wine industry

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ID8946503
AuthorsSimon Baumgartinger-Seiringer (0000-0002-3576-7725, University of Vienna, corresponding author), David Doloreux (0000-0001-7101-2170, HEC Montréal), Richard Shearmur (0000-0002-2554-6654, McGill University), Michaela Trippl (0000-0001-9779-4836, University of Vienna)
Year2021
Volume128
Pages115-124
Publication date2021-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.013
OpenAlexW4200396895
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited47

This article contributes to the debate on new regional path development, proposing an analytical framework that accounts for new industries arising almost ex nihilo in places with weakly developed preconditions. The paper explores how seemingly adverse initial conditions can be translated into a new development path over time and casts light on the interplay between structure and agency in such settings. We find that new path development processes are not necessarily conditioned by past trajectories or by prior regional and technological capabilities, but can be initiated by forward-looking, entrepreneurial pioneers and consolidated by actors who develop the wider institutional and organizational structures to facilitate further growth of the new industry. We study the case of the wine industry in Southern Quebec, which emerged despite weakly developed preconditions and developed into a fully established, legitimized and supported path over the past forty years

Agency (philosophy · Business · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Neoclassical economics · Path (computing · Path dependence · Path dependent · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Wine · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Social Sciences and Governance · Wine Industry and Tourism

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