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

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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)

Further Information

Deadline (Abstracts): June 19^th, 2023

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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.

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Volume 67 Issue 1

May 2023

Publicly Available May 11, 2023

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Page range: I-III

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Editorial

Open Access April 19, 2023

China – International Linkages: Introduction to the Special Issue

Ingo Liefner, Yingcheng Li

Page range: 1-4

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Research articles

Open Access June 18, 2022

An analysis of the evolution of Chinese cities in global scientific collaboration networks

Manuscript prepared for special issue on “China’s internationalization and changing role in the world”

Zhan Cao, Ben Derudder, Liang Dai, Zhenwei Peng

Page range: 5-19

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This paper examines the emergence of China – now the world’s largest source of scientific publications – in global science from the perspective of the connectivity of its major cities in interurban scientific collaboration networks. We construct collaboration networks between 526 major cities (including 44 Chinese cities) for 2002–2006 and 2014–2018 based on co-publication data drawn from the Web of Science. Both datasets are analyzed using a combination of different centrality measures, which in turn allows assessing the shifting geographies of global science in general and the shifting position of Chinese cities therein in particular. The results show that: (1) on a global scale, the bipolar dominance of Europe and North America has waned in light of the rise of Asia-Pacific and especially China. Most Chinese cities have made significant gains in different centrality measures, albeit that only a handful of cities qualify as world-leading scientific centers. (2) The rise in connectivity of Chinese cities is therefore geographically uneven, as cities along the East Coast and the Yangtze River corridor have become markedly more prominent than cities in other parts of China. The uneven trajectories of Chinese cities can be traced back to changing institutional, economic, and geopolitical contexts. (3) Evolution in the global scientific collaboration network exhibits strong ‘Matthew Effects’, which can be attributed to the path-dependent nature of knowledge production and preferential attachment processes in scientific collaboration.

Open Access February 4, 2023

Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative on regional outward FDI from China based on evidence from 2000 to 2015

Yuanyuan Li

Page range: 20-32

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Firms from different provinces in China and their different reactions to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are studied in this research. Initial results from 27.547 outward foreign direct investment (FDI) projects by Chinese firms between 2000 and 2015 regarding the home region profile, host country choice, and FDI motives of the investment firms before and in the early years of the launch of the BRI policy are investigated. The findings show that Chinese firms from eastern provinces that have accumulated a large quantity of inward FDI are more likely than firms from western provinces to switch their investments to BRI-involved countries and engage in a more diverse set of outward FDI motives. These findings help interpret the behavior of Chinese multinationals in the current (de)globalization era, namely using the BRI to circumvent FDI barriers imposed by advanced western economies.

Open Access May 5, 2023

Cross-Border knowledge pipelines and innovation performance of chinese firms: evidence from Zhangjiang in Shanghai

Gang Zeng, Yi Zhang, Xianzhong Cao

Page range: 33-46

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It is increasingly emphasized that firms’ innovation depends on external knowledge interaction in the field of economic geography. Global knowledge linkages and interaction plays crucial role in gaining competitive advantage for firms in developing countries because of their immature innovation systems, inspiring a wide academic interest around cross-border knowledge pipelines. However, the existing literature has been silent about the type in which firms employ cross-border knowledge pipelines and neglects the potential importance of firm’s ownership in this process. Using 2015 survey micro-data of 4685 Chinese firms in Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone, we investigate how different types of cross-border knowledge pipelines indicated by foreign R&D investment and returnees influence firm’s innovation. The research highlights the positive effects of foreign R&D investment and returnees on firms’ patent innovation, while returnees exerts negative influence on firms’ product innovation. Moreover, there exists a complementary relation between foreign R&D investment and returnees in facilitating firm’s patent innovation. State ownership negatively affects the relationship between foreign R&D investment and firms’ patent innovation.

Open Access April 19, 2023

How outward FDIs affect income: experiences from Chinese city-regions

Ruilin Yang, Harald Bathelt

Page range: 47-64

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While outward foreign direct investments (OFDIs) shift resources from a home economy to foreign destinations, increased market and resource access as well as technological and knowledge effects in return have positive impacts on the home region. Such effects may be especially important in emerging contexts, such as that of China. Analyzing data of 285 Chinese city-regions, this paper investigates the impact of OFDIs on home-region income. We show that foreign investment activity positively and significantly impacts income levels in the home region, with differentiated effects depending on the knowledge characteristics of investments and regional absorptive capacity.

Corrigendum

Open Access May 12, 2023

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

Kurt Klein

Page range: 65-66

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Volume 67 (2023)

Issue 1

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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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

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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