Browsing HiØ Brage by Author "Leick, Birgit"
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Editorial on the special issue "Theorising and narrating the geographies of demographic change"
Leick, Birgit; Glorius, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016) -
Entrepreneurship and ageing: Exploring an economic geography perspective : CRED Research Paper No. 22
Mayer, Heike; Leick, Birgit (Research report, 2018)The traditional understanding of entrepreneurship is biased towards certain population groups and specific locations. Yet the literature points to a much more diverse perspective on entrepreneurship and regional development. ... -
Growth-based Theories for Declining Regions? A Note on Conceptualisations of Demographic Change for Regional Economic Development
Leick, Birgit; Matuschewski, Anke; Demuth, Marcel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article aims to critically assess the economic growth paradigm, which typically underlies most approaches to regional policymaking for demographic change. While population losses, ageing and outmigration – i.e. phenomena ... -
Norwegian entrepreneurs (1880-1930s) and their “new America”: a historical perspective on transnational entrepreneurship and ecosystem development in the Russian Arctic
Roddvik, Irina Nikolskaja; Leick, Birgit; Roddvik, Viktor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Structured abstract Purpose The paper presents a historical case study of Norwegian transnational entrepreneurs (1880-1930s) and the ecosystems that they founded in Russia’s Arctic periphery. Drawing from the contemporary ... -
Steering through tough times? Insights into the strategy-formation of small firms to adapt to demographic challenges
Leick, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-19)Market transformations induced by demographic change pose a challenge to the strategy-formation of small firms, because the effects of demographic change on firms are complex and partly non-predictable, and will only be ... -
Tourism development and border asymmetries: An exploratory analysis of market-driven cross-border shopping tourism
Leick, Birgit; Schewe, Theo; Kivedal, Bjørnar Karlsen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper explores whether shopping tourism in the context of cross-border regions may trigger more viable, and long-term, tourism despite persistent border asymmetries (e.g., price and tax differences) which are typically ...