Factors – Mechanisms – Processes in Regional Development:an Application of a Critical Realism Methodology Cover Image

Faktory – mechanizmy – procesy v regionálním vývoji:aplikace konceptu kritického realizmu
Factors – Mechanisms – Processes in Regional Development:an Application of a Critical Realism Methodology

Author(s): Pavla Žížalová, Jiří Blažek, Martin Hampl
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: classification of regional development actors; mechanisms and processes; methodology of critical realism; geographic and socioeconomic disparities

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at developing a conceptual scheme of factors, mechanisms and processes of regional development. Firstly, possible approaches towards classification of factors, mechanisms and processes are presented. Then, metho-dology of critical realism is employed in order to outline systemic relations among regional development factors, mechanisms and processes. Finally, direc-tions of further research in this sphere are suggested.

  • Issue Year: 56/2008
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 696-711
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech