journal: ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography

Impact Factor: 2.174

Open Access Published since January 1, 1957

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography

ISSN: 2748-1964

Edited by: Harald Bathelt, Sebastian Henn

About this journal

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.

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Volume 66 Issue 4

November 2022

Publicly Available January 20, 2022

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Page range: I-III

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Research articles

Open Access November 24, 2022

Innovation, scaling-up, and local development in peripheral regions: do establishments scale-up locally?

Richard Shearmur, David Doloreux

Page range: 185-200

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Abstract

A growing number of researchers suggest that there is no necessary connection between local firm-level innovation and local development. There are two connected arguments: first, many analysts suggest local innovation should be understood as a social and institutional process: from this perspective, just focusing on firms is too narrow. Second, regional economists view firms – especially innovative ones – as geographically mobile, tending to move away from regions which don’t offer them adequate support or resources. In this paper, we consider this second approach, exploring the degree to which innovators in peripheral regions purchase local services and scale-up their operations locally – two mechanisms that should connect firm-level innovation to local development. We find that peripheral innovators are more likely to use non-local services; their external expansion is also more likely to occur non-locally. If these results, obtained from cross-sectional analysis of a sparse data-set, are indicative of persistent processes, then they shed light on why firm-level innovation is disconnected from regional development in peripheral regions.

Open Access November 26, 2022

Ethnic networks in the internationalization of Turkish food producers

Utku Eren Bagci, Martin Franz, Nuri Yavan

Page range: 201-210

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The Uppsala Internationalization Process Model falls short in its ability to explain how emerging market firms internationalize. In this respect, the model needs to be enhanced through theoretical and empirical contributions. In this study, we aimed to increase the relationality of the model by employing the ethnic networks approach. As a case study for emerging market companies, we focused on the internationalization processes of Turkish food companies, which have been relatively little studied until now. Based on data from qualitative interviews, we found that ethnic networks in Germany play an important role in the initial stages of export activities, in location selection, in gaining market information, and in reaching the mainstream retailers and consumers for Turkish food companies. Adopting the ethnic networks approach enables us to see the roles of previously ignored relationships. Our findings show that, in future research, the role of ethnic networks should not be overlooked in the process of applying the Uppsala Internationalization Process Model on emerging market firms.

Open Access January 20, 2022

Zum Stand der geographischen Handelsforschung: Handelsimmobilien und Handelstätigkeit – Ökonomisch-funktionaler Zusammenhang im Kontext der geographischen Handelsforschung

Eine Bestandsaufnahme

Kurt Klein

Page range: 211-227

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Zusammenfassung Im Mittelpunkt steht der funktionale und ökonomisch begründete Zusammenhang zwischen der stationären Handelstätigkeit und der benötigten Handelsfläche. Die Basis für diese Untersuchung liefern die Theorie des Kapitalkreislaufs sowie ein Marktmodell für Handelsimmobilien. Damit gelingt der Nachweis der wechselseitigen Beeinflussung von Handelsentwicklung und Investitionstätigkeit. Der Online-Wettbewerb verändert die Bedeutung der Handelsfläche für die Handelstätigkeit und als Investitionsgut. Der vorgeschlagene interdisziplinäre Ansatz ergänzt die theoretischen Grundlagen der geographischen Handelsforschung und trägt zum Verständnis der flexibler werdenden Raumstrukturen im stationären Handel bei.

Open Access November 26, 2022

National identities and cross-strait relations: challenges to Taiwan’s economic development

Hao Wang

Page range: 228-240

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In the increasingly volatile global political order, national economic structures and international relations, integrated as they are, are showing concerning signs of strain. Taiwan, whose world-leading semiconductor industry is indispensable in Global Supply Chains and whose economic prosperity and security are critical to a stable global economic system, has received much research interest since the late 1980s. Against the background of a slowing Taiwanese economy, starting in the 2000s, this paper seeks to investigate the causes of Taiwan’s challenges and the linkages to the global economy vis-à-vis China. Based on previous research from different social science disciplines, this paper shows that Taiwan’s economic performance has been undermined by the declining effectiveness of its industrial policy and the general state intervention in the country, which is in turn caused by deep socio-political divisions on issues of national identity and Taiwan-China relations. The paper reveals the dilemma, which results from this.

Ahead of Print / Just Accepted

Ahead of Print / Just Accepted

Volume 66 (2022)

Volume 65 (2021)

Volume 64 (2020)

Volume 63 (2019)

Volume 62 (2018)

Volume 61 (2017)

Volume 60 (2016)

Volume 59 (2015)

5-year Impact Factor	1.525
Cite Score	2.6
Impact Factor	2.174
Journal Citation Indicator	0.66
SCImago Journal Rank	0.512
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.556

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Online submission of manuscripts

Notes to Contributors
The Editorial Team invites the submission of manuscripts that fit the agenda and goals of ZFW to contribute to the conceptual and empirical advances within the field broadly defined, including neighboring disciplines. The submission process is conducted online through the Manuscript Central online platform.

Online Submission
The submission of a manuscript requires to upload a title page, the text manuscript prepared in Times New Roman 12, double-spaced with tables and figures (jpg, png and similar file types) on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. The title page should contain the name(s) of author(s), their affiliation(s) and address(es), the title (and subtitle) of the manuscript, a short abstract (max. 200 words) and 6-8 keywords.

Length

Manuscript type	Approximate number of characters/words
Research papers	60,000 characters (with spaces) or 9,000 words
Editorials (for special issues)	20,000 characters (with spaces) or 3,000 words
Book reviews	4,000 characters (with spaces) or 600 words

Refereeing
All submitted research papers undergo the double-blind peer review process of ZFW.

Style
Paper chapters and sub-chapters should be ordered using Arabic numerals. The journal especially invites English publications; German contributions are also welcome (see "Autorenrichtlinien"). The authors are responsible for grammar and style and should have their papers checked by a native speaker or copy editor prior to publication.

Figures and Tables
Figures and tables should be consistently numbered as Figure 1, 2, … or Table 1, 2, … Figures are to be submitted in print-ready form (min 300 dpi) considering the page size standards. Titles should not be embedded in the figures but remain separate in the text.

Citation
All references should be listed at the end of the contribution in a "References" section. This section can be preceded by "Acknowledgements" and/or followed by an "Appendix". Citations are largely based on the Harvard referencing style. Please consider the following suggestions and examples:
• If there are two authors, the in-text reference should be Duranton & Puga (2004).
• If there are three or more authors, the in-text reference should be Borghini et al. (2004).
For a full list of example citations please download the Author Guidelines.

Hybrid Open Access
In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found　under the "Funding and Support" tab here.

Editorial

Editors

Harald Bathelt, University of Toronto, Canada

Sebastian Henn, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Scientific Board

Christian Berndt, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Maximilian Buchholz,University of Toronto, Canada
Gordon Clark, University of Oxford, UK
Patrick Cohendet, HEC Montreal, Canada
Gilles Duranton, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Yigit Evren, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
Daniel Felsenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Elisa Giuliani, University of Pisa, Italy
Johannes Glückler, Heidelberg University, Germany
Britta Klagge, University of Bonn, Germany
Janelle Knox-Hayes, MIT, USA
Ron Martin, University of Cambridge, UK
Deborah Leslie, University of Toronto, Canada
Jürgen Oßenbrügge, University of Hamburg, Germany
Javier Revilla Diez, University of Cologne, Germany
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK
Rolf Sternberg, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Simone Strambach, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Sally Weller, University of South Australia, Australia
Hans-Martin Zademach, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

Managing Editor
Susann Schäfer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Founding Editor
Irmfried Siedentop

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 2748-1964
Print ISSN: 2748-1956
Type: Journal
Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1957
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Keywords: Economic geography, geography, planning, economics, urban/regional economics, international business/management studies, organization studies, innovation studies, entrepreneurship studies, political economy, sociology, cultural studies