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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2025–11–24
five papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Van Wolleghem, Pierre; Soares, Marta Bruno; Lamb, Gavin; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan |
| Abstract: | Climate change adaptation (CCA) increasingly relies on collaborative efforts to generate and circulate actionable knowledge. Among these, knowledge networks (KNs) have emerged as key infrastructures for fostering transnational cooperation, enabling mutual learning, and supporting local implementation. While their theoretical value is widely acknowledged, the empirical landscape of adaptation-related knowledge networks in Europe remains poorly understood. This article offers the first systematic mapping of KNs working on CCA in Europe, with a particular focus on Transnational Municipal Networks (TMNs)—a prominent subset composed primarily of local authorities. We identify and compare 32 knowledge networks across key dimensions including structure, governance, membership, funding models, and core activities. The analysis is grounded in two original datasets: a network-level dataset comprising 32 adaptation-related KNs and a membership-level dataset encompassing over 17, 000 entries, systematically collected and geo-referenced. These resources provide an unprecedented empirical basis for understanding how climate knowledge is shared, institutionalised, and mobilised across Europe. Our findings reveal a diverse and uneven landscape, with significant variation in access thresholds, support mechanisms, and geographic representation. TMNs, in particular, differ in the type and intensity of support they provide—ranging from technical expertise and financial assistance to symbolic capital and peer learning opportunities. The article contributes to ongoing debates about multilevel climate governance and the role of networks in enhancing local adaptation capacity. |
| Date: | 2025–11–20 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:vtshj_v1 |
| By: | Brugiavini, Agar; Di Cataldo, Marco; Romani, Giulia |
| Abstract: | The spatial concentration of knowledge-intensive activities can generate multiplicative effects at the local level. This paper examines how employment growth in knowledge-intensive and tradable sectors affects wage, days worked, and internal migration of non-tradable workers in Italy. We leverage matched employer-employee data (2005–2019) to track individuals across jobs and locations. Our empirical strategy combines a two-step estimation with a shift-share instrument to disentangle the roles of worker sorting and local spillovers. We find that knowledge sector expansion increases the number of days worked locally and attracts non-tradable workers. It also raises nominal wages, but only when sorting is not accounted for, suggesting selective inflows of more productive workers into knowledge hubs. However, rising local living costs offset nominal wage gains, leading to lower real wages. |
| Keywords: | labour demand shocks; knowledge economy; local spillovers; sorting; Italy |
| JEL: | J23 J61 R12 R23 |
| Date: | 2025–12–31 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:130106 |
| By: | Taeger, Matthias; Stenström, Annika; Trapp, Torben; Liu, Felicia; Golka, Philipp |
| Abstract: | This essay argues for an integrative move in the investigation of the politics of ‘green’ finance. We suggest that approaching the politics of ‘green’ finance in the form of knowledge contestations can bring out complementarities and bridge divides between different levels of analysis and theoretical traditions. Our focus is motivated by the pivotal role of knowledge and ignorance in the organisation and governance of financial markets identified in economic sociology, political economy, and neighbouring disciplines. Drawing on this scholarship, we consider knowledge both a forum for and a means of politics. We then illustrate how this conceptualisation provides insights into the politics of ‘green’ finance on different levels of analysis and following different theoretical traditions: in the context of tracing elites in their dissemination of specific ideas shaping governance regimes; when following market devices which produce partial calculative representations of the world; in problematising how financial organisations both produce and accept certain types of knowledge to further their interests; and when examining the role of ideology and imaginative capture in stabilising financial capitalism during climate crisis. We conclude by identifying the connective tissue between these different analytical and theoretical approaches made visible by the integrative concept of politics as knowledge contestations. |
| Keywords: | climate change; elites; green finance; ideology; knowledge; market devices |
| JEL: | F3 G3 |
| Date: | 2025–11–13 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:129797 |
| By: | Rongjun Ao; Ling Zhong; Jing Chen; Xiaojing Li; Xiaoqi Zhou |
| Abstract: | While prior research has emphasized the path-dependent nature of occupational systems, it has paid limited attention to how local industrial structures contribute to occupational change. To address this gap, this study examines how regional occupational evolution is shaped by two distinct mechanisms: (1) path-dependent skill and knowledge transfer, whereby new occupations emerge through the recombination of existing occupational structures; and (2) industry-driven task reconfiguration, through which industrial upgrading reshapes the demand for occupations. To operationalize these dynamics, the concept of industry–occupation cross-relatedness is introduced, capturing the proximity between new occupations and a region’s existing industrial portfolio. Drawing on panel data from 241 Chinese cities between 2000 and 2015, the study estimates the effects of both occupational relatedness and cross-relatedness on new occupation specialization. The results reveal that both mechanisms significantly promote occupational evolution, yet they tend to function as substitutes rather than complements. Furthermore, their effects differ across skill levels: high-skilled occupations are more responsive to industrial transformation, low-skilled occupations to occupational pathways, while medium-skilled occupations exhibit relatively weak responsiveness to both. These findings underscore the importance of structural conditions and skill heterogeneity in shaping regional patterns of occupational change. |
| Keywords: | Occupational Evolution; Path Dependence; Chinese Cities; Industry-Occupation Cross-Relatedness; Skill Heterogeneity |
| JEL: | R11 O14 N95 |
| Date: | 2025–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2534 |
| By: | Olayiwola Oladiran |
| Abstract: | Office market demand is theoretically underpinned by the optimal use of office space. Traditional models account for macro-level factors such as population growth, employment, and GDP, micro-level factors such as changes in technology and work practices and organisational strategies including occupiers' activities, changing tenants' space needs, new tenants emerging from start-up businesses, relocation of firms, and existing tenants upgrading their space requirements. Due to the fluid nature of workspace use following the pandemic, there is a gap in knowledge regarding the theoretical underpinnings of current workspace use and insufficient insight to support the development of strategies for optimal and efficient use and management of workspaces. Furthermore, contemporary models such as hybrid working, and shared spaces have made space users’ perspectives important. This paper explores the key factors that are (re)defining current workspace use and management and investigates stakeholders' (users, employers and property managers) perceptions and sentiments about the workspace dynamics. We interviewed 24 stakeholders in three categories: 14 workspace users (employees), 7 senior executives and HR managers and 3 corporate real estate. We observed a positive sentiment towards the recent changes to work patterns and the preference for blended/hybrid work settings. Our findings also indicate that organisations and corporate real estate managers will need to address important balances and trade-offs as part of their workspace use and management strategies. The insights from this study reinforce the link between workspace use and management with organisational performance and growth and contribute to the broader literature on social dimensions of real estate use, planning and management. |
| Keywords: | Blended working models; Flexible working; Organisational strategies; Workspace management |
| JEL: | R3 |
| Date: | 2025–01–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2025_227 |