Chapter 2 fulfills two purposes. First, it defines the research desiderates this study addresses in three streams of literature: economic geography, practice theoretical thought, and the multidisciplinary research field practice transfer. Each stream of literature is carefully examined and research gaps regarding practice transfer are derived. Discussions in economic geography regarding knowledge transfer and practice transfer are taken up and reasons for the necessity of a concept of “distance” as what needs to be overcome in practice transfer are elaborated. Practice theories’ conceptual lack of addressing practice transfer as a research object is shown, and the state of the art in the multidisciplinary research field practice transfer is examined. Especially, existing approaches to practice transfer stemming from institution theories are critically discussed on the background of the empirical findings of this study. Second, the chapter introduces practice theoretical thought—which is still not coherently understood in economic geography. Furthermore, it defines “practices” as nexuses of activities and thus gives the theoretical groundwork for the following chapters. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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