ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the organizational field approach, that offers an appropriate theoretical framework in which recent developments of economic sociology can be integrated in order to better understand the relations between a region and its companies. An organizational field approach offers an appropriate theoretical framework in which recent developments of economic sociology and regional studies can be integrated. The relationships between the concepts of organizational fields, culture and social capital will be explored in order to conceptualize an analytical framework that shall help us to better understand the phenomena of regional embeddedness. Generally, the boundaries of organizational fields are not geographically constituted; rather, the boundaries are culturally and functionally shaped, reflecting the social construction of space and culture. Introducing culture helps to understand "socialization processes" as they have been described in the neoinstitutional theory or within the concept of organizational fields in a different perspective.
