Multinational companies and local knowledge base - an evolutionary perspective: Regional variants of initial vocational education and training activities in Germany

跨国公司和当地知识库——进化视角：德国初级职业教育和培训活动的区域差异

• 批准号: 422774243
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Martina Fuchs
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpädagogik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/422774243?language=en
• 关键词: Multinational; companies; local; knowledge; base

Economic Geography analyses knowledge as prerequisite for the competitiveness of companies and regions, e.g. in the context of local knowledge bases. Although the relevance of applied practical education was pointed out early on, it has been hardly systematically researched until now. Here, the attention is on ‘dual’ initial vocational education activities, which is an interface between the local labour market and company needs. In Germany, there is (institutionally based) a wide range of opportunities between different regions. Industry-specific features play a role in the local varieties, as well as local stakeholders and joint education-related initiatives. Foreign direct investments are in the centre of the study, because they are potentially relevant but still unknown actors with regard to dual education activities, and because their sectoral distribution differs regionally. It is evident that education activities are changing repeatedly, whether companies or other local stakeholders are the drivers. The reasons for change are not (solely) due to production-related rationalities, such as company growth or innovation, but also patterns of interpretation, e.g. focussing on competitiveness or reduction of youth unemployment. To systematically capture the temporal dynamics, this project follows a view inspired by evolutionary economic geography. In doing so, 'formations' of actor constellations and relevant 'bundles of competences' are identified. The project asks how subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies are involved in dual education activities in different regions of Germany, and which evolutionary formations of actor arrangements can be found there, and why. As direct investment from different countries concentrate in different regions, the project focuses (besides a general overview of Germany), on Hamburg, Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Cologne, Munich and Stuttgart. The overall situation is analysed by database analysis, the regionally differentiating storylines by a pilot study and a regional main survey using qualitative approaches, systematically combining perspectives and methods of economic geography and business education.

经济地理学分析知识作为公司和地区竞争力的先决条件，例如在当地知识基础的背景下。虽然应用实践教育的重要性很早就被指出，但迄今为止还没有系统的研究。这里，关注的是“双重”初始职业教育活动，这是当地劳动力市场和公司需求之间的接口。在德国，不同地区之间存在（基于制度的）广泛的机会。行业的具体特点在地方品种以及地方利益攸关方和联合教育相关举措中发挥作用。 外国直接投资是研究的中心，因为它们可能与双重教育活动有关，但仍不为人所知，而且它们的部门分布因地区而异。 很明显，教育活动在不断变化，无论是公司还是其他当地利益攸关方都是驱动因素。变化的原因并不仅仅是由于与生产有关的合理性，例如公司的增长或创新，还有解释模式，例如注重竞争力或减少青年失业。为了系统地捕捉时间动态，这个项目遵循了进化经济地理学的启发。在这样做的时候，“编队”的演员星座和相关的“束的能力”被确定。该项目询问外国跨国公司的子公司如何参与德国不同地区的双重教育活动，以及在那里可以找到哪些行为者安排的演变形式，以及为什么。由于来自不同国家的直接投资集中在不同地区，该项目（除了对德国的一般概述外）的重点是汉堡、法兰克福、杜塞尔多夫、科隆、慕尼黑和斯图加特。通过数据库分析，通过试点研究和区域主要调查，使用定性方法，系统地结合经济地理学和商业教育的观点和方法，对总体情况进行了分析。