The temporality of agency plays a fundamental role in regional development but has received little attention in economic geography and regional studies. This paper zooms in on two aspects of temporality: the temporality of intentions and the temporality of consequences. The former refers to actors’ perception and valuation of opportunities in the near and distant future, whereas the latter refers to the short- and long-term consequences of actions. This paper studies the temporality of agency in the context of regional development. It investigates how short- and long-term intentions motivate different types of agency, how different types of agency affect short- and long-term regional development outcomes and which conditions enable or constrain different types of agency. We illustrate our arguments with an in-depth case study covering the regional development of a labour market in Norway over the last 20 years.

代理的时间性在区域发展中起着重要作用，但在经济地理学和区域研究中却很少受到关注。本文重点关注时间性的两个方面：意图的时间性和结果的时间性。前者是指行动者对近期和远期机会的感知和估价，而后者指的是行动的短期和长期后果。本文研究区域发展背景下代理的时间性。它调查了短期和长期意图如何激发不同类型的能动性，不同类型的能动性如何影响短期和长期的区域发展成果，以及哪些条件能够启用或限制不同类型的能动性。