{"id":4656,"date":"2025-12-14T12:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:13:44","slug":"sustainable-regional-development-and-complex-adaptive-systems-a-methodological-proposal-through-social-network-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS: A METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diego Andr\u00e9s CARRE\u00d1O DUE\u00d1AS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">School of Mines, National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Medellin, Colombia; &nbsp;Professor, School of Industrial Management, Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (Universidad Pedag\u00f3gica y Tecnol\u00f3gica de Colombia), Duitama, Colombia.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">dicarrenod@unal.edu.co, diego.carreno@uptc.edu.co&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walter Lugo RUIZ CASTA\u00d1EDA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor, Department of Organizational Engineering, School of Mines, National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Medellin Colombia.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>wlruizca@unal.edu.co<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evolution of the main theories that have shaped Sustainable Regional Development (SRD) is traced in this paper, with the progressive incorporation of economic, social, environmental, and institutional dimensions showing how it is configured as a complex phenomenon. Based on this conceptual foundation, the study links the analysis of SRD to the Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) framework and, within this approach, to Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a tool for modelling interactions among regional stakeholders. Finally, it introduces a correlation between the resulting regional network metrics and the Departmental Innovation Index (IDIC) indicators for Colombia&#8217;s regions, offering an alternative perspective for analysing regional disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Sustainable Regional Development, Divergence, Complex Adaptive Systems, Social Network Analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JEL classification: <\/strong>O20, R11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pp. 85-99<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/ARTICLES\/December_2025\/06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Andr\u00e9s CARRE\u00d1O DUE\u00d1AS School of Mines, National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Medellin, Colombia; &nbsp;Professor, School of Industrial Management, Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (Universidad Pedag\u00f3gica y Tecnol\u00f3gica de Colombia), Duitama, Colombia. dicarrenod@unal.edu.co, diego.carreno@uptc.edu.co&nbsp; Walter Lugo RUIZ CASTA\u00d1EDA Professor, Department of Organizational Engineering, School of Mines, National University of Colombia (Universidad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[285,1611,432,272,1612,1610],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-complex-adaptive-systems","tag-divergence","tag-o20","tag-r11","tag-social-network-analysis","tag-sustainable-regional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}