Evans Korang Adjei- PhD
- Researcher at Umeå University
Evans Korang Adjei
- PhD
- Researcher at Umeå University
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Introduction
My research is focused on varied questions on regional development, regional structural change, and firm performance by examining the importance of family co-occurrences, migration, large industrial investments, skill sorting, and recruitment patterns.
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Over the years, family business and regional science scholars have developed an interest in exploring and understanding the relationship between the two research fields, typically, on how they influence each other. In this article, we build on the family business and the regional context to question and explore how family firms are locally embedded...
Recently family firms seen a delicate renewed interest in regional science, regional studies and economic geography and similarly, spatial and regional contexts have been addressed in family business studies. Those strands are driven by interest in the heterogeneity of family firms as the most common type of organization all over the world (family...
Recent large investments in northern Sweden connected to the green transition – primarily within mining and manufacturing (fossil-free steel, batteries) – have led to substantial increases in local demand for labour. In a territory with low unemployment and a decreasing labour supply due to ageing and a history of net outmigration, there is a subst...
A previous publication advocated for integrating decolonial perspectives as a
transversal principle to the practice and progress of economic geography
(Morales, 2024). In this paper, we propose tools to achieve this goal, highlighting
the opportunities that the expansion and diversification of the subdiscipline
presents for doing so, anecdotally, w...
Promoting Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) aims to increase the productive capacities of farmer households. Under FMNR, farmers select and manage natural regeneration on farmlands and keep them under production. While FMNR contributes to the wealth of farming communities, its contribution to household food security has rarely been researc...
This article examines the impact of establishing a large industrial manufacturing entity on employment and the labor market in a remote, sparsely populated part of Sweden, focusing on how it affects total regional employment because industrial policies aiming to attract investment and reignite employment in stagnating regions have been a central po...
Join us at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography. June 7-10, 2022. Dublin Ireland.
Find more information about the 6th GCEG in general at URL https://gceg.org/. Please submit your abstract (500 words) by 11th February 2022.
Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) via the official GCEG
submission portal by 11th February 2022
(https...
Join us at our Special Session SMEs/Family Businesses and regions at the Regional Studies Association's conference on Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022: Re-imagining Regions, 21st March – 1st April 2022;
Submitting papers:
Please submit your abstract (up to 300 words) via the conference portal (https://lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Me...
To contribute to more balanced perspectives on sub-municipal population change in sparsely populated areas (SPAs), this paper closely examines a local pocket of growth in a shrinking Northern Swedish municipality. Integrating Swedish register data with in-depth qualitative insights, the geographic study examines patterns and processes of uneven loc...
This paper constructs a theoretical framework that explains how exposure to entrepreneurial activities impacts start-ups’ survival. First, this study examines the effects of entrepreneurial capital (EC) – inherited entrepreneurial practices from parents as a result of the exposure to entrepreneurial activities, on the survival of start-ups. Second,...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of low-educated natives (i.e. residents without a university diploma). Using the labour market competition theory, which argues that the labour market effects of natives depend on the skill set of immigrants, the paper addresses whether immigran...
While the family may serve as a resource for entrepreneurs, it has been studied separately in different disciplines. In this paper, we combine the arguments on familial relationships (family firm literature) and skill variety (regional learning literature) to analyse how different forms of entrepreneurial family relationships (co-occurrences) facil...
The aim of the thesis is to analyse the effects of family co-occurrence and past familial
relationships (inherited entrepreneurial abilities) on firm performance. This aim is
motivated by the contemporary arguments that social relations (e.g. family ties) are
important in the analysis of today’s space economy. In most studies, the point of
departur...
This study empirically assesses the role of social proximity, defined as the concentration of family members (FM) in firms, on firm performance. Based on longitudinal micro-data for the period 1995–2010 connecting information on workers and their workplaces in the Swedish labour market, the effects of FM (parents, children, siblings and grandparent...
