Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
IGU Egypt Thematic Conference 2025, Cairo, Mısır, 12 - 15 Nisan 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)
There is a growing consensus among scholars that institutions play a critical role in urban and regional development (Acemoglu et al., 2005; Gertler, 2010; Rodriguez-Pose, 2013; Storper, 2013). However, although numerous studies have been conducted in economic geography on the analysis of the ways institutions operate in different contexts, the definition of institutions and the explanation of institutional change are still highly ambiguous (Gertler, 2018; Rodriguez-Pose, 2020). With that being said, a new research line has recently emerged that develops a discipline-specific definition of institutions from a relational perspective (Bathelt and Glückler, 2014) and conceptualizes institutional change through the relationships among the building blocks (regulations-organizations-institutions) of the institutional context (Glückler and Lenz, 2016). Based on this new line, this study aims to explain the impact of organizational field-specific dynamics on the differentiation of interactions between institutions and the other dimensions of the institutional context. In this respect, the institutional contexts of the OSTİM end-of-life vehicle dismantling industry and the Aliağa shipbreaking industry, which were moved from the center of the Ankara and Istanbul metropolises to the peripheral regions in the 1980s, respectively, have been analyzed comparatively. For this, 42 interviews were conducted with actors from within and outside industry-specific organizational fields. According to the findings, the institutional patterns of forgery in car/ship purchasing, disinterest about recycling and waste disposal, disinterest in complaying with environmental and occupational health&safety measures and disbelief in meeting technical conditions have been observed in the development processes of both industries. Additionally, OSTİM represents a case study where the regulations cannot compete with existing institutions and are ineffective, thus the dominant institutional patterns continue to exist unchanged for many years. However, Aliağa represents a case study where regulations developed for the same purposes as in OSTİM circumvent these patterns. In Aliağa, the organizational field allows social practice to reorganize around costs and benefits, while in OSTİM, it causes social practice to show great resistance to change to maintain existing benefits and avoid new costs. In conclusion, this study will contribute in terms of the use of a comparative methodology to the new research line initiated by Bathelt and Glückler (2014) and continues to develop with both conceptual and empirical contributions.
Keywords: Institutional context, comparative analysis, shipbreaking, end-of-Life vehicles (ELVs) dismantling, Turkey.