Call for papers Spring meeting 2025 AJG in Tokyo & Pre-conference in Osaka, Japan
Special Session: Management Geography – Thinking about a managerial perspective for geographical research
経営地理学 – 地理研究における経営的視点を考える
Convener: Prof. Dr. Rolf D. Schlunze (Ritsumeikan University) with Atsushi Taira (Kagawa Univ.)
Due to the 100-year anniversary of the AJG*, the Management Geography (ManGeo) Research Group is pleased to organize an International Symposium on Management Geography sponsored by the Internationalization Collaborative Research Promotion Program of Ritsumeikan University. In contradiction to the social impact of Japanese transnational firms, geographical research about international management is not well established. However, leading economic geographers tell us that management matters as a new conception lens in spatial theories. Thus, we like to focus on the nexus of managerial decision-making and practices in a globalizing corporate world. We like to analyze the management of economic, social, and cognitive spatial realms influencing corporate performance through concentration, interaction, and/or perception. The dream of there being only one management model has not materialized, but new methodologies have been developed to analyze the socio-economic and cognitive spatial behavior of managerial subjects in real, relational, relative, and virtual space. We wish to show that the nexus of managerial practice and decision-making is nowadays important to geographers and social scientists who wish to contribute theorizing managerial, and spatial behavior. Where can we observe global managers embedding transplants locally performing corporate spatial responsibility (CSpR)? Why do DX and Industry 4.0 technologies influencing and transforming industrial and financial spaces? How does the Green Deal impact locational decision-making and embeddedness of Asian MNEs in Central Europe?
The ManGeo research group welcomes any submissions that touches the following issues:
- Theorizing managerial decision-making in a (de-)globalizing world
- Methodologies for investigating managerial practice and decision making
- Empirical evidence on all kinds of management issues
For more information on the ManGeo Research Group visit www.mangeo.org and/or contact the convener by e-mail. Please submit your preliminary title and your abstract (250 words) latest by 1. Dezember 2024 to the convener by email [email protected]. You will learn about the acceptance of your abstract in mid of December 2024. The contributors will be invited to the pre-conference at Ritsumeikan Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC) on Monday, 17th March 2025, with a half-day excursion visiting Osaka headquartered MNE on 18th March 2025. They are expected to join an International Symposium on Wednesday, 19th March, the first day at the 2025 AJG Spring meeting (Komazawa University, Tokyo; 19.-21. March 2025)! Contributors need to submit their working paper (5000 words) until 1. March 2025. Graduate students are welcome to contribute with an E-poster during the pre-conference. These contributions will be published with our online journal ManGeo Working Paper Series (ISSN 2436-3855) and/or as a book chapter after a blind double review with a commemorative issue of the academic journal Ritsumeikan KEIEIGAKU.
References:
Schlunze, Rolf D., Nathaniel O. Agola and William W. Baber (Eds), Spaces of International Economy and Management: Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography, Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
Suwala, Lech, Piotr Pachura, Rolf D. Schlunze, Management Geography – Making Place for Space in Management Thought. Polish Journal of Management Studies 2022; 25 (2): 323-340. DOI: 10.17512/pjms.2022.25.2.21 GICID:01.3001.0015.9002
Taira, Atsushi and Rolf D. Schlunze (Eds), Management Geography – Asian Perspectives Focusing on Japan and Surrounding Regions Management Geography. International Perspectives in Geography (IPG, volume 19), Springer Nature, 2022.
*Notice that the international leadership team of ManGeo research group promotes the recent idea to change AJG into Japanese Association of Geography (JAG) or Association of Japan-based Geographers (AJG) enabling everybody to identify themselves with this association promoting geography in Japan.
