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Publicly Available December 1, 2020

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Research articles

June 28, 2019

Zum Stand der geographischen Handelsforschung: Methoden und Techniken

Jürgen Rauh, Oda Maria Hoffmann

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Zusammenfassung Angesichts der zunehmenden Digitalisierung und eines sich ändernden Konsumentenverhaltens definiert sich auch der Einzelhandel neu. Dieser handelsexogene und -endogene Wandel zeigt sich auch in der (Fort-)Entwicklung und Anwendung wissenschaftlicher Methoden der geographischen Handelsforschung. Das Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die vielfältigen methodischen Ansätze und Methoden der Informationserhebung sowie der Datenverarbeitung mittels einer Literatursichtung aktueller deutscher und englischsprachiger Artikel zu untersuchen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Literaturanalyse sollen verschiedene Potenziale und Defizite identifiziert werden.

Publicly Available March 24, 2020

Geographische Handelsforschung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung: Eine Bestandsaufnahme

Cordula Neiberger, Matthias Mensing, Jonas Kubon

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Zusammenfassung Die Digitalisierung des Handels schreitet seit Mitte der 90erJahre voran, in den letzten 10 Jahren überaus dynamisch. Insbesondere der Onlinehandel steht dabei im Fokus des wissenschaftlichen wie auch des öffentlichen Interesses, wird er doch häufig für das Ladensterben in Mittel- und Kleinstädten verantwortlich gemacht. Umso verwunderlicher ist es, dass zwar die BWL, Informatik, Psychologie und andere Disziplinen eine Unmenge an Arbeiten zu diesem Thema hervorbringt, die Anzahl zumindest der deutschsprachigen geographischen Beiträge hierzu jedoch im Vergleich verschwindend gering scheinen. Dabei ist die Bedeutung raumbezogener Aspekte für die Entwicklung des Handels durchaus groß. Der Aufsatz hat es sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, die Erträge der geographischen Forschung zum Thema Digitalisierung des Handels systematisch aufzuarbeiten und dabei die verschiedenen Ansatzpunkte und Blickwinkel zu diskutieren, Defizite aufzuzeigen und weiteren Forschungsbedarf zu formulieren. Dafür wurden insgesamt die rund 53 Beiträge ausgewertet, welche in den sechs wichtigsten deutschsprachigen humangeographischen Zeitschriften, der Reihe „Geographische Handelsforschung“ sowie 12 englischsprachigen humangeographischen Zeitschriften seit Anfang der 90er Jahre zu diesem Thema erschienen sind.

April 22, 2020

Cultural Tourism Routes as Incubators for Innovation and Economic Diversification: A Potential Analysis in the Framework of the New Silk Road Initiative in Azerbaijan

Arne Schuhbert, Hannes Thees, Valentin Herbold, Johanna Weinreiter, Markus Kantsperger

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Cultural routes are today a widespread phenomenon throughout the Industrialized Countries (IC) and have become more and more prominent as a tool for tourism development in recent years (Flognfeldt, 2005:37; Meyer, 2004:5). For countries in the Southern Caucasus, who profit from their bridging position between Europe and Asia, the planned revival of the Ancient Silk Road (ASR) in form of the New Silk Road (NSR) offers substantial potentials for economic diversification by means of tourism as a catalyzing industry. On the case of Azerbaijan, this study analyzes the potential to trigger regional economic diversification within the existing national destination-system in a framework of route development. To this end, the methodological approach builds upon a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to diagnose the current degree of cluster maturity in the system, following the question of how Azerbaijan as a system of regional destination can access the transnational route system of the NSR.

October 1, 2020

Startup Competitions and their Role in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Attempt

Lennard Stolz

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Research on entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) is still advancing as a concept that both practitioners and scholars claim has advanced beyond other approaches to fostering or explaining regional entrepreneurship. However, criticism of the concept centers on a lack of understanding of causes and effects and the importance of single instruments for its functionality. While practitioners and policy makers are jumping on the bandwagon and trying to aim policies directly at entrepreneurial ecosystems, investigation of the role of single instruments and their impact on entrepreneurial ecosystems remains insufficient. Fostering entrepreneurship through startup competitions (SUCs) is a decades-old policy instrument. Today, both scholars and practitioners mention SUCs as an element of entrepreneurial ecosystems, but analyzing them from that perspective remains undone. Building on a regional understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems, this paper provides a novel framework for the role of startup competitions in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Following on previous studies of SUCs, this study identifies core mechanisms and benefits of the competitions and presents a general framework for SUCs. Then, the study results are synthesized with mechanisms central to entrepreneurial ecosystems, e.g., entrepreneurial learning, networks of entrepreneurial-related actors in the region, and financing entrepreneurship. It is argued that startup competitions work as network hubs in entrepreneurial ecosystems because they connect: a) entrepreneurs with each other, b) entrepreneurs with relevant actors (e.g., financiers, experts, entrepreneurship support organizations), c) those actors among themselves. Therefore, the competitions are “anchor events” and strengthen the overall quality of the EE in which they occur. The study also argues that SUCs benefit from a functioning EE’s positive climate for entrepreneurship and the availability of resources. The study is theoretical, and its findings lead to an agenda for further research.

Book reviews

October 1, 2020

Neiberger, C./Hahn, B. (Hrsg.): Geographische Handelsforschung. Berlin: Springer Spektrum (2020). 314 S.

Thomas Wieland

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July 14, 2020

Karl Husa, Rüdiger Korff, Helmut Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.): Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung. Buchreihe Edition Weltregionen, Band 25. Wien: new academic press (2018).

Heiko Faust

Page range: 249-250

July 14, 2020

Karl Vorlaufer: Südostasien. Geographie – Geschichte – Wirtschaft – Politik. Buchreihe WBG-Länderkunden. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (3. aktualisierte Auflage 2018), 255 S.

Helmut Schneider

Page range: 251-252

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Call for Papers – Special Issue
Shaping Globalisation: Revisiting the State-Global Production Network Nexus

Guest editors: Martin Hess & Rory Horner (University of Manchester)

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Deadline (Abstracts): June 19^th, 2023

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Call for Papers – Special Issue
Complementarity of Locations: challenges of sustainability and disruptions

Guest editors: Ram Mudambi (Temple University, USA) & Pengfei Li (University of Calgary, Canada)

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Deadline (Abstracts): March 31^st, 2024

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Starting with issue 1/2022, the former journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (The German Journal of Economic Geography) will be relaunched under the new title ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography. With ongoing internationalization of academic disciplines, the journal has made the decision to open up to the global academic community by focusing on English-language publications.

To support the relaunch and invite a broad readership, ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography will be transferred to Diamond Open Access on a year-by-year basis, starting with the 2022 volume. All articles will immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY, at no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of ZFW and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography aims to become a driver of and contributor to the global knowledge architecture in the field of economic geography broadly defined through its commitment to diversity regarding innovative themes and authors and by pushing for a non-partisan cross-disciplinary agenda. It invites contributions that develop novel conceptualizations and present new empirical insights into economic structures, processes and practices, as well as their variations and outcomes in spatial perspective. Themes of particular interest include the actors and institutions shaping regional economic development, the institutional and socio-economic triggers of localized knowledge generation and innovation, the flows of people, knowledge and resources over distance, the development and persistence of unequal economic geographies worldwide, the global organization of capitalism and its evolution in spatial perspective, the impact of new societal challenges across space, and related topical areas.