Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr Eriksen

• Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr (2024). Behind the scenes of industrial change–Change agency and system function linkages. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. p. 1–13. doi: 10.1080/00291951.2024.2314090.
• Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr; Isaksen, Arne & Rypestøl, Jan Ole (2023). Exploring regional industrial culture. Changing industrial culture and human agency in a Norwegian region. European Planning Studies. ISSN 0965-4313. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2162333. Show summary

  This paper explores the role that industrial culture and human agency play in regional industrial development. It makes three contributions. First, it discusses and explores the concept of regional industrial culture and examines its relevance for regional industrial development. Second, it identifies and investigates two main forms of regional industrial culture: one self-interest dominated type and one community dominated type. Third, the paper discusses how firm – and system-level agencies can contribute to changing the dominant form of industrial culture at the regional level. The paper also provides a study of the regional industrial culture and change in the culture by key actors and agency in the Molde region in Western Norway since 2010. The empirical study demonstrates that the concepts of self-interest and community dominated culture and their link to firm – and system – level agency is relevant to capture and describe a regional industrial culture and potential changes within it. We found that the industrial cultural change in the Molde region could be regarded as mainly being the outcome of system level agency performed by both firm – and system – level actors.

• Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr & Isaksen, Arne (2021). The emergence of new industries at the regional level: alignment of organizational and regional industrial culture. Regional Studies, Regional Science. ISSN 2168-1376. 8(1), p. 387–401. doi: 10.1080/21681376.2021.1987976. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article provides insights into how and where new industries emerge and grow through theoretical reasoning and the advancement of relevant arguments through empirical examples from industry emergence in two Norwegian regions: the establishment of the boatbuilding and the electronics industry in Arendal; and the cancer medicine and educational technology industry in Oslo. The article focuses on culture as an important asset for new industry emergence. We argue that industry emergence is supported if organizational culture in emerging industries and existing or altered regional industrial culture become aligned. The four industry cases demonstrate how in some situations industries emerge through a branching route, for example, related spin-offs, while in other cases they emerge through a creation route based on unrelated local start-ups or importation. We argue that an alignment of organizational and regional industrial culture is more easily achieved in the branching than in the creation route.

• Rypestøl, Jan Ole; Isaksen, Arne; Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr; Iakovleva, Tatiana Aleksandrovna; Sjøtun, Svein Gunnar & Njøs, Rune (2021). Cluster development and regional industrial restructuring: agency and asset modification. European Planning Studies. ISSN 0965-4313. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1937951.
• Isaksen, Arne; Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr & Rypestøl, Jan Ole (2020). Regional industrial restructuring: Asset modification and alignment for digitalization. Growth and Change. ISSN 0017-4815. 51(4), p. 1454–1470. doi: 10.1111/grow.12444. Show summary

  This paper provides a conceptual framework to understand the innovation-based restructuring of industries in a regional context. The framework includes how firms create new assets, reuse existing assets and destruct hampering assets to support innovation processes. The framework also covers how such asset modifications take place at the innovation system level. A core argument is that innovation activity is strengthened and regional restructuring supported when firms’ internal assets are aligned with assets at the regional innovation system level. We illustrate the framework with empirical examples of how digitalization as an innovation process takes place in firms in traditional manufacturing industries and in local newspapers in the Agder region in southern Norway.

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• Karlsen, James Tommy; Isaksen, Arne & Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr (2019). Construction of a regional innovation system: Lessons from the Agder region, Norway.
• Karlsen, James Tommy & Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr (2019). The local newspaper industry in an era of digitalisation: A case study from a peripheral region in Norway.
• Eriksen, Anna Maria Emelie Langemyr & Isaksen, Arne (2019). Digitalisering av regionalt næringsliv. Samstemt bygging av ressurser i bedrifter og systemer. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling. ISSN 0805-083X.

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