resilience, metropolitan regions, non-metropolitan regions, branch plant regions, hinterlands, Czechia

There have been many studies focused on regional resilience and its particular determinants at regional level such as population size, industry mix, specialization/diversity, firm size structure, export orientation or institutions. Nevertheless, few has been written about the question how various types of metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions react and adapt to external economic shocks. We know quite a lot about isolated effects of various explanatory variables on regional resilience. What we still lack is the theory and empirical evidence concerning the issue how these factors work in combination. Which types of regions are more resilient: metropolitan or non-metropolitan regions, urban cores or hinterlands, peripheral, branch plant or single factory regions? These questions were examined in our case study of post-crisis (2009-2014) economic development of Czech city-regions. We propose a typology of city-regions based on particularities in economic structure, key actors and mechanisms of development, which may be relevant for explanation of regional differences in adaptability.